When Fuse’s Mistress Juliya broke on her Twitter early this morning that Peter Steele was dead, due to heart failure, the knee jerk reaction from fans could only be one thing: we’ve heard this before. By now, however, after confirmations from bandmates, Type O Negative’s label, and fans, it seems to be true that everything dies. Even Peter Steele.
Steele’s last album stands as Dead Again, released in 2007, an album the band promoted per their usual October/Halloween tour schedule. That was the year and time he came through the Rock N’ Shock Convention in Massachusetts, for a meet and greet with fans. In those fleeting moments of signing, the queue came to an abrupt stop with me in front of Peter. I asked how his day was going, and he said without hesitation, “Every day since I’ve been born’s been a bad one.”
I was completely elated by his unabashed resent, and dedication to a line he’d clearly said thousands of times, but my friend seemed disappointed, and pressed him. “This is my first time seeing you,” she gushed.
“Yeah?” he said. “Stand in the back. It’ll sound better.”
So on a day like today, amidst the sadness that there’s no more records to come out of this man, as I’ve been reminded all morning, it would almost seem disrespectful not to make morbid Peter Steele-like jokes about the given events. Whatever form your grief wants to take. Just remember that there was a serious man, musician, and talent behind his visage.
Thanks for the music, the puns, staying with us for so long, even through torment and depression, and creating metal for girls to makeout with their boyfriends to.
Tags: Carnivore, Peter Steele, Type O Negative
i still can’t believe he’s really gone…. there will never be another that holds a candle to peter steele and what he brought to music in the way he brought it. I guess immortality remains unattainable even for such an original musician and artist such as Peter Steele…. you will be greatly missed…. tell Harold and Jimi I said hey…. rock and roll will never die. Peace.
No more drooling, just wet dreams…I will defidently miss him
Peter… um cara impressionante!
It has been months since Pete has been deceased, and I am still mourning a great musician, and not to mention that he was a very beautiful person, angry or not, bad days or not, he was a very unique person and I MISS HIM A LOT.
Rest in Peace, Pete. I will love you forever.
your music your attitude about life, and the fact that you were just peter. and you did not care about what others thought.