The next record took on influences of that scene – songs like Black No.1 were about the people we’d see. “We’d hang out on weekends and go into New York at the height of its club phase, and Peter went in on the whole jet-black hair thing.
“The move into Bloody Kisses made a lot of sense,” explains Sal. The same, irrepressible creative energies that seemed to fuel Peter to constantly tweak material also allowed Type O Negative to completely transform themselves. Origin… was just Peter’s way of re-doing Slow, Deep And Hard to his liking.” “Peter was never happy with anything he did – within days of turning something in he’d want to make changes. “He wasn’t happy with how those two Carnivore records were handled, and the owner of the label came to me with the Repulsion demo and asked what I wanted to do with it – should we let him go, or bring it in to Roadrunner? I thought it was amazing, and we’d have been nuts to let him go!”Įven with Monte working directly with the band, it didn’t stop the legend that the band put out the ‘live’ record The Origin Of The Feces – essentially just their debut rerecorded with crowd sounds – as a ‘fuck you’ to the label. “At the time Roadrunner was a tiny little label, and Peter wanted out,” explains Monte Conner, the A&R rep who ended up bringing Type O Negative back into the Roadrunner fold. Ties to hardcore weren’t the only thing that Peter retained from the Carnivore days – he was still locked into a contract with his former label, Roadrunner. “The scenario from Kill You Tonight literally happened to him – he took the D-train to Brighton Beach and caught her screwing on the sand!” “That record was about his ex-girlfriend at the time,” Sal says. But, where Carnivore drew from Peter’s imagination, these new songs were about Peter’s own recent experiences. That first release is a furious, bilious entity that locks horns with love, infidelity and violence. Reconnecting with ex-Fallout bandmate Josh Silver on keyboards and pulling in Kenny Hickey on guitars, the then-unnamed band gathered at Brooklyn’s Marine Park for their first official band meeting.Ĭycling through names such as Subzero and New Minority, they decided on the name Repulsion for their first demo – material that would later be remastered into Type O Negative’s debut release Slow, Deep And Hard after one final rebrand. This spur-of-the-moment decision set in motion the formation of one of the 90s’ most distinctive and successful metal bands. I’m like, ‘Yeah, cool man!’ just saying anything so I could play with the guy!” He nods, saying he’s always wanted to have a band with electronica – keyboards, samples and things like that. I asked if he wanted to hang out and jam, have some fun. “His father answered the door and let me down, and there’s Peter sitting in bed watching TV, having just cut all his hair off! He had just took the New York Police Department test he didn’t want to play music anymore.
“I heard the news and figured I’d go over unannounced and see how he was doing,” says Sal. Peter may not have wanted to be a star, but fate had other plans in mind and it wasn’t long before it came knocking (literally). Peter was happy doing that – he was still making music, but he wasn’t so interested in becoming a star.” “Peter was working at the Parks Department and Louie became a bus driver. “When Carnivore eventually broke up, the guys got regular jobs,” Richard Termini says.
Before I started, Louie and Peter worked there too, so the boss suggested I go to Louie to take drum lessons and we became buddies.”Įven in the glory days of 80s music industry excess, a hardcore/thrash crossover band had their work cut out if they wanted to succeed, and Carnivore’s lack of touring ensured they’d never pull in big bucks. “I was apprenticing at this Latino blacksmith shop that made cowbells they’d sell to lots of big Latin American musical stars. “Louie and Peter lived just up the neighbourhood from me,” remembers Type O Negative founding member Sal Abruscato. As with most local scenes, 80s/90s Brooklyn was a somewhat incestuous entity, members of various bands intermingling and connecting along the road – which is how Louie Beato eventually came to tutor his successor.
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