“I was not trying to copy anybody but I certainly to listen to this stuff and I think it’s rubbed off on me.”Ĭonnecting the many of the songs on “Bloody Kisses” are short, formless noise collages. “I like psychedelic music, I like goth, I like some early metal and I like indie,” he explains. The group’s sound has evolved from a noise/hardcore/grunge style into the current gothic sound and Steels ways the change was brought about simply by what he was listening to. Type O Negative formed four years ago, after the demise of Steele’s former group, Carnivore. There’s a dark, gothic tone here, with thrashing guitars and growling vocals, but there are also some nice harmonies that you’d never expect to hear. Probably the easiest way to describe it is as a combination of The Sisters of Mercy and the Beatles. Peter doesn’t seem too concerned with the promotion side of making music, and he doesn’t pretend to.īut the music on the New York band’s new LP, “Bloody Kisses,” manages to speak for itself with its wide variety of styles incorporated into an eclectic sound. He explains that he is trying to speak with a wide variety of magazines to make up for this, yet he answers in short, often one-sentence responses that reveal little insight. During the course of a telephone interview, the singer/bassist openly puts down his record company (Roadrunner Records) for pushing his music on the metal market even though it would appeal to a much wider audience. But Type O Negative leader Peter Steele puts up no such pretenses. When bands do interviews to talk about their music it’s always hard to tell whether they’re being completely honest or just putting up a front to sell records and make their label happy.
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