Type O Negative was a Gothic Metal band formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1989. They are well known for their often slow and brooding music, and front-man Peter Steele’s baritone voice.

The band made their debut in 1991 with their album Slow, Deep And Hard cementing themselves into the Gothic Metal genre. Later on that same year, they released their second album The Origin of Feces which, upon release, sparked controversy due to the original album cover featuring a picture of Peter Steele’s anus. The album featured covers of Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid”, and Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey Joe” under the name “Hey Pete”

In 1993, Type O Negative released their critically acclaimed album Bloody Kisses. After the pressure of their new-found success, the band almost broke up. But they ultimately stayed together, and in 1996, release their second critically acclaimed album October Rust featuring some of their largest songs to date, such as “Love You to Death” and “My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend”. The album debuted at #42 in the Billboard Top 200.

Following the release of October Rust, Peter Steele experienced a series of deaths among his family in the time in which he was writing the bands next album, that album was 1999’s World Coming Down which was another large success for the band. In 2003, Type O Negative released Life Is Killing Me which was the last album for their contract with Roadrunner Records, soon being singed to Steamhammer Imprint, and released Dead Again.

The band abruptly disbanded after vocalist and bassist, Peter Steele’s death to heart failure at age 48.