
"I Know You're Fucking Someone Else") reflected homicidal anger over a relationship that was so deep, Steele attempted suicide over it. "Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity" (a.k.a.

The album tempers aggressive and dirge-rock tempos with Hickey's razor-sharp harmonics, Steele's heavily processed bass (described by band members as "a baritone guitar") and Silver's array of keyboard textures. Arriving at page 136, he sees an ad for a blood bank who is paying top dollar for a particular blood type: O negative.ġ991: The quartet hunker down at Systems Two studios for six weeks and give birth to the debut Type O Negative album, Slow, Deep And Hard. Steele unwinds by pursuing his favorite hobby: reading the phone book. Steele commandeers keyboardist Josh Silver. Abruscato enlists guitarist Kenny Hickey. Steele wants to do something that won't be as strictly defined as the grind-and-grumble Carnivore, so he agrees.
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Bassist Peter Steele pursues a career at the New York City Parks Dept, where he learns a variety of skills including how to pick up human waste with a rake and new metaphors for maggots ("dancing rice").ġ990: Steele's longtime friend Sal Abruscato asks him if he wants to start a band.

1989: After two records and great frustration with musical direction and the inability to find good tailors for their custom-designed loincloths, thrash-core future primitives Carnivore disband.
