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TYPE O NEGATIVE's PETER STEELE Is Not Dead - May 14, 2005
Despite a message on the band's official web site that seems to suggest otherwise, TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele HAS NOT DIED.

The band, who are famous for their dark sense of humor, have spent much of the last few months preparing material for their SPV Records debut, which is expected to be recorded later in the year.

TYPE O NEGATIVE cancelled their U.S. tour last fall in order to allow Steele to undergo further tests after "undisclosed anomalies" were discovered during a medical exam. A February 11, 2005 update on Peter's condition from TYPE O NEGATIVE drummer Johnny Kelly stated, "There really isn't much to report other than he's doing fine and his health is improving daily."

TYPE O NEGATIVE, whose first album, "Slow, Deep and Hard", was issued in 1991, fulfilled their contractual obligations to longtime label Roadrunner with the release of 2003's "Life Is Killing Me". That album debuted on The Billboard 200 chart at No. 39 in June 2003 after registering a first-week sales tally of 27,023 copies. TYPE O NEGATIVE's best-selling album to date is 1994's "Bloody Kisses", which has shifted nearly a million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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COMMENT | LOLOOLLLLLLL
posted by : MARTYR
5/14/2005 6:50:15 AM

Funny as hell!!!!

COMMENT | what a prank
posted by : Arcv666
5/14/2005 6:59:04 AM

Talking about dark humor! This kinda jokes are not the most healthiest ones, it can seriously affect to some die hard fans life and death too. Haha, damn them. Good news is that he's still among us, lookin forward to get the new album now

COMMENT | HAH HAH HAHAA :-)))
posted by : Paster of Muppets
5/14/2005 6:59:14 AM

Love when a band has a sense of humor. Especially a dark one.

COMMENT | Long Live Pete
posted by : www.blackviolin.com
5/14/2005 7:35:36 AM

and Type O Negative!!!

One of my very favorite bands!!!!

They're TOTALLY cool!!!

COMMENT |
posted by : hateinsideyourhead
5/14/2005 8:08:44 AM

How is it a marketing strategy?

COMMENT |
posted by : fluff
5/14/2005 8:29:27 AM

Fuck off with these full page adverts, Blabbermouth.

COMMENT | Almost LETHAL "joke"
posted by : stonegaard
5/14/2005 8:43:06 AM

I woke up today when my mother was calling my cell phone. My stepsister got rushed into hospital after a suicide attempt. She will most probably survive, luckily. She is/was a huge Type O Negative fan. I do not know yet if she heard/saw the news and tried to end her life because of that STUPID JOKE of the band or if it was just a coincidence that she tried to suicide at the same day this "joke" was announced.... I doubt the latter one, though. We will learn the truth when she recovers in a few days; she's now held artifically in coma, but doctors say they'll pull her back within days or a week.

Type O Negative, THINK WITH YOUR BRAINS. If my stepsister would've succeeded on her attempt, would you be more happier with your "joke"??? Think about it, morons! Yes, I know it isn't your fault she is a huge fan(atic) but still, playing JOKES with someone's DEATH is just simply too much!!! You NEVER thought someone would believe what the OFFICIAL web page seemed to inform??? If it looks like a gravestone and there's the name and the "birth - dieed" years announced, why not believe it? This is the MOST STUPID AND LETHAL JOKE EVER!!

Maybe the next joke of the band will be using cyanide to the audience, right? It can't be more unhealthy.

COMMENT |
posted by : spacelord
5/14/2005 8:49:00 AM

If she tryes to take her life because a web site is saying something, she needs to grow up and get a life.

COMMENT | GOOD LORD
posted by : ALICEINCHAINS2
5/14/2005 8:55:55 AM

I love Type O too, but really.....

COMMENT |
posted by : jeffgq_1
5/14/2005 9:11:06 AM

i like that song 'my girlfriends girlfriend'..

COMMENT | How about your stepsister grow the hell up?
posted by : Paster of Muppets
5/14/2005 9:11:49 AM

A fucking band's nothing more than a band, a bandmember is just another bandmember, and music is just music, that's all. A healthy person doesn't make the decision whether to kill oneself or not based on what happens to some band. Mentally unstable people might do so, but the society and world cannot be shaped so that some mentally ill person won't get funny ideas. Humor - even the dark one - belongs to the world, and if some psychoward patient can't handle it, tough shit. Not to even mention that anyone who knows his shit will tell you that Type O Negative has always loved dark pranks and jokes.

Maybe you ought to spend more time with your sister, and get her some psychiatric help? It's utter bullshit to blame a band and its jokes for the actions of someone who's clearly unstable. Unstable people need medical help, not shittalking on a website. Also getting a life would be appropiate. When you have a life of your own that doesn't revolve around some band or their music, it's just much healthier in every way. People who live their lives through some band and their music are not well.

COMMENT | Good luck to your sister but.....
posted by : thrashnbash1
5/14/2005 9:39:04 AM

really, I recall musicians of bands that I really dig dying while growing up and yet I never even considered taking my life because of it. I don't know, sounds a little dramatic to me to do something that ridiculous. Just nonsense.

Hey, if a musician is killed, takes their own life, just plain old dies, then their time is over. It doesn't mean that yours has to be too. Same goes with a family member or friend. We all have close relationships that we don't think we can ever be without, yet as time comes and goes these things pass. Much like the pain endured from losing someone so close. This would be NO different.

On a different note, I don't like Type O, and honestly have never liked anything they have done. However Pete Steele in Carnivore, now THAT was something I liked. Why not capitalize on the trend and reform that fucker and get out there and perform some classic shit! Maybe then you won't have to post "fake I'm dead" messages on your "official" site.

Keep Thrashin' and STAY FUCKIN' BRUTAL!!!

--Chris McQ.
Thrash n Bash Radio
www.thrashnbash.com

COMMENT | Everything....
posted by : Evergreenman
5/14/2005 9:52:28 AM

...dies.

I hope it's a joke, but if not, Pete probably went the way he said he would. Discovering he has some life-fucking disease, setting his affairs in order, then off to party with the worms.

I love Type O music, but I can wait to hear the posthumus tunes.

COMMENT | Peter...
posted by : Greek God
5/14/2005 9:59:16 AM

and his darker than black humour....

I can picture him laughing his ass off posting that crap on the official homepage... but I have a question....

Blabbermouth, how come his death wasn't reported until it was revealed to be fake? Are you finally leaving tabloid reporting behind, or you just don't give a shit about Typo O, or did it just fly by?

questions, questions, questions... :p

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COMMENT |
posted by : En_Gris
5/14/2005 10:09:25 AM

Pretending to be dead... yeah, how fucking original. I just lost what small amount of respect I did have for this band. It's not funny, it's just fucking stupid.

COMMENT |
posted by : En_Gris
5/14/2005 10:11:41 AM

Oh and stonegaard, I hope your stepsister recovers.

COMMENT | Get well anyway Peter
posted by : scary
5/14/2005 10:26:14 AM

Well, i dont know aything about this situation with him possible being dead - but, if he has any ailments, or if he is sick, i must tell you - about 5 years ago, i was sick and i was suposed to interview Peter Steele but couldnt cuz i was sick, Roadrunner Records told Peter about it, and he called me at my home to wish me well and to get better - thats a real person, and that really moved, me, i still to this day tell people how much of a great perosn he is - PETER, if you are sick, get well - scary gary in Oakland Ca.

COMMENT |
posted by : RiotAct666
5/14/2005 10:29:01 AM

Long live Peter & Type O

COMMENT | Type O
posted by : lucasreis
5/14/2005 10:30:07 AM

One of the best bands, and one of the most original I´ve heard, their tone is awesome, no one made it before, it´s so weird and heavy, I really enjoy it.

Anyway, about the suicide attempt of that guy´s sister above, I don´t know if it´s related to Stelle, but anyway, people who try to commite suicide are stupid and coward, that´s my thought, and if the reason is a band member being that, it´s even worse, I wish the best to her, but like some guys said "GET A LIFE!"

COMMENT | Wait a Minute...
posted by : evilfaerie
5/14/2005 10:32:47 AM

If you read the article, it never says that the BAND posted the message about Peter. Johnny Kelly is currently in Europe with Danzig. And if you go to the band's website, the message board has been taken down.

So the band may have nothing to do with this rumor/joke/whatever at all.

COMMENT | It wasnt that funny
posted by : anallyrapedwithabutcherknife
5/14/2005 10:41:26 AM

It was lamer than Christopher Reeve's legs. Seriously, I mean a light chuckle might be echoed, but it wasn't funny at all. I like TON and their music, don't get me wrong, but.....I dunno, I guess I overanalyzed it?

COMMENT | best band on the planet
posted by : raglor
5/14/2005 11:22:58 AM

No one writes better songs then these guys.

COMMENT | Heh
posted by : Dekompoze
5/14/2005 11:51:14 AM

and there are still people who think 'The Origin Of The Feces' is a live album. What tools.

COMMENT | hmm...
posted by : marilyn_munster
5/14/2005 11:56:51 AM

yesterday was friday the 13th. the band is known for fondness for the number 13.

a) they never said peter was dead, just "free"
b) that would never go up if it wasn't band approved and they're known for their dark humor
c) the last album had photos of the band lying on gurneys with toe tags so why is this so 'shocking'?

COMMENT | Classic Type O behaviour
posted by : Evergreenman
5/14/2005 12:00:47 PM

I like a good joke. I don't want the music to die, though. Does "Free At Last" refer to the price of the next Type O album?

COMMENT | Bah
posted by : nameendingwith666
5/14/2005 12:48:42 PM

If your sister would kill herself if Pete Steele died, she's a true fucktard, and you know it. People like you are the reason so much of the things that have meaning (not to imply a fake death has copious meaning) are reduced to PC inoffensive pathetic garbage.

This is not new Type O behavior, and considering that there is a SUCCESSFUL teen suicide every 90 minutes and the ratio of attempts to success is about 50:1, I would say, yes, it's VERY possible it was a coincidence. A lot of people's sisters try to kill themselves every day, no matter what rock star dies.

Type O was making a joke in homage to when the Beatles pulled the "Paul is Dead" hoax in 1969 (which to me is why it's funny). Even if your sister didn't get that (if she follows the Type O AT ALL she should know how much they tribute the Beatles) she should have noticed that the gravestone on the website looks a little bit.... off...... as in fake as Al Gore's hair.....

Fuck you and die.

COMMENT | Get a clue, folks.
posted by : Veal
5/14/2005 12:52:29 PM

I wonder why no one remembers the Teddy Bear motif used last week. Did your stepsister run out and buy Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake stuff then?

COMMENT | Fuck this band
posted by : MaskOfSanity
5/14/2005 12:57:20 PM

Carnivore > Type O Negative

COMMENT | Alive and Stripping!
posted by : titania70
5/14/2005 1:59:49 PM

Let's hope for another Playgirl spread '10 years on' then! :)

COMMENT |
posted by : NokturnalCatharsis
5/14/2005 2:49:03 PM

Haha! Fucking hilarious.

COMMENT | Everyone
posted by : hurricane hugo
5/14/2005 3:06:25 PM

should see Type O negative at least once.

blessed be.

COMMENT | greetings from finland
posted by : Byhaxroth
5/14/2005 3:50:13 PM

stonegaard!
Your Sister is a stupid bitch...
Metal is all about death and mayhem.
not stupid teens worshipping irrelatives.
Stop wasting our comment space and end your days with your dum ass bitch sister of yours

COMMENT | LOL!
posted by : ADCS
5/14/2005 4:01:55 PM

I fuckin' love Type O.

COMMENT |
posted by : the_real_gauze
5/14/2005 4:49:18 PM

a sad day for music fans (that he's not dead)

COMMENT | Hey Mr. Steele
posted by : Jakdknife
5/14/2005 5:16:10 PM

get well and always look on the bright side of life. Seriously!

COMMENT | Hehe
posted by : Lycanthropunk
5/14/2005 8:44:34 PM

I like Peter's dark humour and i really like Type O Negative they're a good band and they spread real darkness through their music. Listening to them is for me an experience comparable to watching old Dracula movies with Bela Lugosi: Fascinating.
Peter's Steele real name is Petrov Stalin, he is of russian descent and yes he is related to the (in)famous russian Dictator.

COMMENT |
posted by : TYPEONEGMARSHALLEDU
5/14/2005 9:45:55 PM

I'm still hoping that Quorthon is pretending to be dead. Ugh I miss Bathory. Oh well at least I can listen to some depressing Type O Negative, Katatonia, and then wash that all down with a healthy dose of My Dying Bride.

COMMENT | Best Band Ever
posted by : Mictian
5/15/2005 12:54:16 AM

My first tattoo was the negative circle on my right shoulder, my first concert was Type O Negative whom I've gone on to see 6 times, and Peter himself put me on his guestlist for their last Halloween night show at the Trocadero in 2001, I believe it was. He truly is the coolest and genuinely nicest guy I ever met in music and this band is greatly underappreciated. I just hope to see them again soon or at least hope that their next album won't take 4 friggin years to complete.

COMMENT | Uh huh... Suuuuuuure
posted by : Lamandalynne
5/15/2005 3:02:19 AM

Well I was a little pissed about the situation... but that is what you get when you mix dark humor and Friday the 13th.
I have seen on a lot of msg boards... "My sister tried to kill herself" and "I hate you guys" and other stuff...
HELLO PEOPLE!!!!!!! You do not know these people directly... why would you kill yourself over someone passing of natural causes anyway?
I am a huge Type O Fan! Have been in their following for well over 10 years... People... chiiiiiiillllllllllll on it ok.
Don't blame Pete and the guys for being who they are!!!!!!

COMMENT | ha
posted by : ilikegoodmusic
5/15/2005 4:00:46 AM

ha ha ha ha ha ha oh my god thats funny ha ha ha ha ha ha oh shit ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ah good one ha ha ha ha ha

seriously though this is a killer band great music

COMMENT |
posted by : Darksnow
5/15/2005 11:42:48 AM

Must be really funny to kidding the fans. Never laughed as much. Seeming Pete is not the only one in the band who has problems with drugs and alcohol....

COMMENT |
posted by : Frost47
5/15/2005 12:07:54 PM

TYPE O RULES!

Petuh!!

COMMENT |
posted by : Frost47
5/15/2005 12:10:38 PM

As to the above comment about drugs and peter steele..

peter is actually very anti-drug use and only takes prescrition medicine and weight training enhancements (legal ones of course). If you have ever read or watched Type O interviews, you might catch a thing or two...

COMMENT |
posted by : SDMF04
5/15/2005 8:39:50 PM

Type -0- Negative is great stuff, glad everything is straight!!!

COMMENT | Hey Fluff
posted by : stoliranger
5/16/2005 1:44:08 PM

Are you going to post a comment on the Kellogs' site when you sister tries to off herself because her Eggo got stuck in the toaster?

COMMENT | The BEst Music Ever....
posted by : MikeTeflon
5/16/2005 9:52:27 PM

for doing the funky chicken,
you know, "some of the ole in out love"... MM/CW

Just singing in the rain....lmao

COMMENT | What a joke
posted by : Ishtar
5/17/2005 1:51:34 AM

I don't know who did this cruel joke, please never do it again, it could take a serious impact in many people, pls. think about the things you do and their consequences before you do it. but I'm happy cuz Peter is alive

COMMENT | ALMOST LETHAL "joke"
posted by : Misanthropica
5/17/2005 4:20:58 PM

I can't believe some of the moronic viewpoints on this message board. Stonegaard, you are an idiot. You are blaming Type O Negative for your step-sister's suicide attempt. She's obviously a narcissistic little jerk who wanted to get attention. If she had really wanted to kill herself, she would have succeeded. She probably just scratched up her wrists a little bit in the wrong direction like most pathetic girls do when they want someone to feel sorry for them. Boo hoo. And maybe you're too young to remember, but back in the 80s, a little band called Judas Priest was accused of goading kids into committing suicide. The accusations were started by Tipper Gore and some other stupid hags who thought that Metal music was corrupting the youth. Luckily, they didn't succeed in bringing the music down, but I'm sure you can take up their cause again if you feel so strongly about it. Everyone will continue to laugh in your face.

COMMENT | Ha Ha....
posted by : CazEnvy
5/21/2005 8:41:40 PM

Ok now i can breath a huge sigh of relief......im not THE WORLDS biggest fan of these guys by any means, but i love them to death ;) i dont keep tabs on what they are doing all the time....so i just happened to go on their site and discovered the joke and got all alarmed and then figured out 2 mins later it was all a joke!! Damn me for being so gullible!!
In reply to all the harsh comments you have made about stonegaard.....in her defence she is upset about her sister, which im sure anyone would be. Although, it is allarming that they would make the attempt to take their life as a result of a prank. Bands do things like that all the time! I do advise her to get some help. But i also advise the people on here to stop being so harsh to someone so obviously upset!
True, she didnt have any right to blame the band itself for the own choices her sister made, neither does she have the right to call them "morons" but she does have the right to voice how she is feeling. People deal with things in different ways!
I do agree with titania70 i would like to see another playgirl spread ;)
Ok complaining over....in conclusion i have mixed opinions on the whole situation! ~Envy

COMMENT | Love It
posted by : dangiz
5/23/2005 2:11:40 PM

I was worried as hell when the site just had that rainbows and bears thing with "love you to death". I was looking all over for any news about the band breaking up/quitting. When I saw the gravestone, I freaked for a millisecond. Then I thought about it, it's classic type o. I fuckin love these guys. Saw them 7 times, hope to see them many more. Love EVERY cd, listening to LIKM right now. CANNOT wait for the new one (although they say it'll be out in late 2005, it'll most likely be out in like 2008). FREE AT LAST!!! Steele and the guys in Type O have just gotten free of their shitty Roadrunner contract......

COMMENT | Damn! I must have just woken up!
posted by : blasphemous_girl
6/1/2005 4:06:20 PM

I read this JUST today...I must live in a cave or something! But, all in all.....Misanthropica says it best.... not going to be all like, "reposting".....but, thats my scratch and yawn for the day...
ROCK ON T.O.N.!!!!!!!!

COMMENT | Scare the shit out of me!
posted by : pro003
7/6/2005 8:13:54 AM

Yesterday I was in downtown doing some regular stuff...when a sms from my girlfriend alerted me that on TON's official website stands that Peter Steele has died! Shit, man! First thought in my mind was: Can't be possible! that man cannot die, simply cannot!!! I am a great fan of TON especially of their frontman Peter Steele, more than 10 years... Best days of my 20-ties were signed by their music, and the inspiration for most things in my life came from their creativity...Good part of my personality was build upon some Pete's statements I've read in interviews... I am a successfull man who has a beautiful wife (but not married) and great 6 year old son named Peter!! I even work in one of the great tv stations in country "super tv" as a news presenter and this short form of tv news is named "Attitude" and from 200.000 people in this city they (a tv station) found the right guy (me!) to be the one who's going to represent their tv station. Why? Because of my attitude, manners, premiss...that was mostly build upon model of Peter Steele's personality and his attitude... Get it?!
I wanna say that this man means a lot to me and I simply couldn't believe that he's dead! And thanks God because it was just a joke, otherwise - part of me would certainly die.

COMMENT | Philosopher under Stone
posted by : negativeleppard
7/19/2005 2:31:42 AM

Well, I must be living in a hole as I didn't know what the hell's been going on until I checked the website today, which so callously displayed Peter's head stone. Lovely guys, really brillant! I think my heart dropped into my stomach for a moment until I did some digging and found it's a hoax. Really original guys. Anyway, I love TON too and it would really be a shame had we lost a great philosopher and poet. Although poetically dark, the bands lyrics are stirring and somewhat sensual. Cheers Peter, to your health! Take solace in hitting the iron, it does wonders for the soul.

COMMENT | RIP
posted by : tomballbrown
8/4/2005 3:46:44 AM

HAD I NOT KNOWN THAT I WAS DEAD ALREADY,I WOULD HAVE MOURNED MY OWN LOSS OF LIFE..October Rust In Peace..

COMMENT | Committing suicide about an allegedly dead rocker & Pete being related to Stalin
posted by : doublemocha
9/20/2005 5:54:50 AM

First of all, I am a huge music fan and a huge Type O fan; and yes, we feel a bit of a bond with our favorite groups because we invite them into our homes and our cars and our jobs from time-to-time, but that is where the MATURE ones of us let the relationship end. My mother dropped dead 22 months ago and we have still never gotten a clear answer why. But here I am, still standing, still working 56 hours a week, doing my thing. Frankly, I think Pete would be appalled that someone would try to commit suicide over his passing and would have as much disdain for said person as many of the people who have posted here.


Lycanthropunk wrote:
"Peter's Steele real name is Petrov Stalin, he is of russian descent and yes he is related to the (in)famous russian Dictator"

Could you tell me where that info came from? I'm not arguing with you; I just heard something a little different, that's Pete's birth name was Peter Thomas Rataczic Jr. Hell, even Stalin's real name wasn't Stalin, it was Dzugashvili, as Kull pointed out earlier. And while Pete does acknowledge Russian heritage, he considers himself to be "an average Pollock" (his words, not mine, even though that's what I call my boyfriend) and was raised Catholic. Stalin lived in a Russian Orthodox seminary for many years. Stalin was an only child, had black hair and brown eyes, and was only 5'4" tall. Peter Steele's father was 6'6" tall and had blond hair and blue eyes. And both of Stalin's sons were dead by the time Pete's second-oldest sister was born. Again, I'm not arguing with you dude, but I'd like to know where that info came from? 'Cause them there is some big discrepencies.

COMMENT | "Peter Steele anti-drug"?!?!?!?
posted by : doublemocha
9/20/2005 5:59:42 AM

Honey, have you ever seen the man use a bottle of Pinot Noir or Merlot as a bass pick?

COMMENT | Very funny ;/
posted by : ravenscompanion
1/22/2006 10:16:56 AM

stonegaard, why don't You just look for reasons in Yourself and Your family, eh ? Those things don't just happen beacause some musician, even very important, wrote something in the net. I know, I was young, stupid and very unahppy once in my life - and I was brought back to life. Three times. The third time was serious and I had to take a therapy. The only thing I really appreciated in my life at that time was TON, so the doctor used it - and in that strange way I am alive - thanks to Peter&co ;) I am allmost 23, a good student of political sciences, working, I have my own flat, two cats and I'm a fan of Type'O'Negative for allmost greater part of my life (started to listen 1993). Don't tell me they do bad things to people's lives .. yes, I allmost got a heart attack too, when I heard the news, but then I rememberd Peter's stupid smirk, when he was speaking of his death at "After Dark" and I thought "Yeah, right cutie - nice try ;)"
When he'll be dead, you'll know by the real mourn at their site, not just usual pranks ...
Tell Your sister "get well" from a former suicidal :*

COMMENT | Hahaha...
posted by : i_love_a7x_lacunacoil_and_TON
5/10/2006 4:02:31 PM

It was funny of Type O to pull something like this, it just reminds me of why i love them so much. Anyways stonegaard, I don't think that you should blame TON for what your sister almost did. I mean they didn't intend for any harm to come to her, so you shouldn't point the finger at them and blame them. I mean i love type o negative, but just because peter dies, doesn't mean that i'm going to take my own life as well, i think that peter wouldn't want any of his fans to do that. So yeah, i wish that your sister gets better.



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