He wasn't great at first but he developed into a pretty decent vocalist. He didn't want to sing originally, either. SILVER He was a guitarist at first and he picked up a bass because I was in a band called Fallout and we really needed a bass player. He didn't have girlfriends growing up, which was also rough for him. SILVER I think his anger towards his entire catholic school education is pretty apparent if you've heard Carnivore. We did something too close to a bunch of school windows once and they all melted. We'd blow up army men with M80s and we liked to burn stuff. SILVER We were destructive little fuckers. He would ride his bike and make crazy animal noises with this big Yankees horn. People would see him and think he was 20.
I think it was a problem for him to be six feet tall when you're 13. JOSH SILVER I grew up with him since I was 10 and he was very large even then. Nearly six months after his demise, Revolver sat down at Steele's favorite Brooklyn drinking hole, Duff's, with Kelly, band co-founder and guitarist Kenny Hickey, and keyboardist and childhood friend Josh Silver to remember their lost leader. The looming, muscular, six-foot-seven Steele cut his teeth in underground acts Fallout and Carnivore, but he's remembered foremost as the cornerstone of Type O Negative, the self-dubbed "Drab Four" who fused the monolithic doom of Black Sabbath to the goth romanticism of Sisters of Mercy on classic albums like 1993's Bloody Kisses. Ironically, after years of heavy drinking and drug use, the iconic frontman was sober when he passed away. Ratajczyk, died at his home from heart failure at age 48. Half a decade later, the news was no joke. "Everyone was asking, 'What happened, what happened?' And I was like, 'What are you talking about?' I remember getting in touch with Josh and saying, 'What the hell are you guys doing?!'" "I started getting emails and phone calls the next morning," recalls drummer Johnny Kelly, who played with Type O since 1994. 1." But even some of their other bandmates weren't in on the prank. In 2005, visitors to the group's website were met by an image of a gravestone inscribed with the phrase, "Peter Steele-1962-2005… Free at Last." It turned out that the post was a practical joke by keyboardist Josh Silver and Steele, a man with a sense of humor as dark as the hair dye he rhapsodized in his band's biggest hit, "Black No.
Type O Negative fans could hardly be blamed for being skeptical when news broke in 2010 that the band's frontman Peter Steele was dead.
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