PETER STEELE Of TYPE O NEGATIVE: A Remembrance

April 16, 2010

Jon Wiederhorn of MTV.com has posted a personal essay about the passing of TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele. An excerpt follows below.

"I can't pretend I really knew TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele, who died Wednesday, reportedly of heart failure, although I'd met and interviewed him several times.

"I knew his music, from the early days of his lurid mid-'80s thrash band CARNIVORE to the sophisticated melange of BLACK SABBATH, SISTERS OF MERCY, PINK FLOYD and THE BEATLES that he and his bandmates conjured with TYPE O NEGATIVE. I knew that he was an amazing performer, haunting and charismatic, commanding yet never pompous.

"I knew that every time I interviewed him we'd end up talking about how dismal the music industry — and life itself — can be, how our greatest weaknesses can obliterate our most powerful strengths. And I knew that whenever we talked, whether it was casual conversation at an industry event or at a confessional sit-down interview about the personal and professional struggles he experienced during the creation of whatever album he was working on, that the conversation would be filled with laughter and I would leave feeling more positive about life."

Read the entire essay at MTV.com.

Photo Credit: Judit Fold, Budapest

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