TYPE O NEGATIVE Frontman: Jail, Cocaine-Induced Psychosis And Psychiatric Ward
August 25, 2006For years, TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele has been threatening to make an angry hardcore album. Now, he just might be mad enough to do it, reports Revolver magazine. Over the past 18 months, Steele suffered cocaine-induced psychosis, went to jail for a month for violating probation, and did time in a psychiatric ward. "I'm pissed off at myself more than anything," says Steele, who has been clean for over six months. "I'm actually trying to kick myself in the ass, and nothing beats rehearsing three or four times a week at 160 decibels for three hours."
TYPE O NEGATIVE, which has not performed live in close to three years, is still working on a new release for SPV Records that has an early 2007 tentative release date. The band, whose first LP, "Slow, Deep and Hard", was issued in 1991, fulfilled their contractual obligations to longtime label Roadrunner with the release of 2003's "Life Is Killing Me". That album debuted on The Billboard 200 chart at No. 39 in June 2003 after registering a first-week sales tally of 27,000 copies. TYPE O NEGATIVE's best-selling album to date is 1994's "Bloody Kisses", which has shifted around a million copies in the U.S.
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