Now here I am three years and one pandemic later partaking in a dream tour. I not only had no will to live, but almost a compulsion to end my life. It’s the summer and I will never forget where I was mentally in July of 2019. The significance of this didn’t really hit me until the last few days. The countless friends I’ve made along with the several countries and many continents that I have performed in- all because of death metal.Īs I explained earlier, I recently completed a tour with my heroes and good friends Terry Butler and Rick Rozz playing Leprosy-an album that means the world to me-in its entirety. DEATH METAL was now a thing! This was no longer thrash metal and I was hooked! This little-known and sonically atrocious genre would go on to become an integral and life changing force in my life. I had already heard Scream Bloody Gore and was fan, but Leprosy was the death metal version of Reign in Blood for me…in that genre defining and game changing kind of way. In 1988 I was in middle school and got a copy of Death’s Leprosy album from my buddy Scott. I still have therapy once a week and fight off the demons daily, but with said therapy I have learned to cope with my childhood trauma and live in the present with much weaker demons. Not that life isn’t still difficult-and am I hardly a ball of sunshine either. Earlier this month, I completed a tour that would have never happened-for me anyway-if I had succeeded with my permanent solution to what I have learned was a temporary problem. Some of you may have read it, many sent me messages, a few were very moving… which made the severe discomfort of sharing that with world completely worth it. Video evidence, and more of Steele’s music, below.Last year I summoned up the courage to write an editorial about the worst day of my life, my suicide attempt in 2019. In addition to fronting Type O Negative, Steele also performed in the group Carnivore, posed for Playgirl magazine and even appeared on the Jerry Springer Show on an episode dedicated to groupies.

“I’m smiling recalling a funny story involving Pete, a microphone, an all-girl lipstick-lesbian band and a can of tuna. “RIP Pete Steele – a nice (and very funny) man,” Trent Reznor wrote on his Twitter page. 1.” (“These guys are like a cross between Danzig and Megadeth,” Beavis said at the time.) The 6′ 7″ singer recorded seven albums with Type O Negative, the most recent being 2007’s Dead Again, which entered the Billboard 200 at Number 27, the band’s best debut. The album boasted rock radio hits “Christian Woman,” a cover of Seals & Crofts’ “Summer Breeze” and the Beavis & Butthead-approved “Black No. Type O Negative became one of the most unlikely bands to break into the mainstream in the 1990s with their third album Bloody Kisses, which became the first album released by Roadrunner Records to go platinum. Thank you for your understanding and support.” But today as members of Steele’s circle began to confirm his passing, the Type O Negative message boards opened this morning with the message, “Please play nice and expect statements from the band and family later today. Soon after, Steele all but disappeared as he battled drug problems and a prison stint. News of Steele’s death was initially received with disbelief as Steele pulled a hoax in 2005, posting his picture and the years “1962-2005” on the group’s official website.

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