MojoRedFoot Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Heard about that....i was never a Type O fan but he was too young to go!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MojoRedFoot Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 Yeah, only 48 and supposedly good health. Strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellion102792 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Heard the news tonight, I can't believe it. I've been listening to Type O since I was 11 and they were and still are one of the only bands of their type that I like. From blabbermouth.net: TYPE O NEGATIVE keyboardist Josh Silver has confirmed to BLABBERMOUTH.NET that the band's frontman, Peter Steele, passed away yesterday (Wednesday, April 14) at the age of 48. No official cause of death has yet been released, but it is believed that Steele died of heart failure. According to unconfirmed reports, Steele had been ill for days leading up to his death. Mistress Juliya (a.k.a. Juliya Chernetsky) of Fuse TV broke the news on her Twitter page last night, stating that she spoke to TYPE O NEGATIVE guitarist Kenny Hickey just before midnight New York time, and that Kenny confirmed that the rumors were true. Back in 2005, many people were shocked when they logged on to the TYPE O NEGATIVE web site and saw a gravestone with the words "[P]eter Steele - 1962 - 2005 .... Free At Last" carved on it. According to Epinions.com, there were rumors at the time that Steele was sick (with anything from cancer to AIDS), was on his deathbed, attempted suicide ... and the list goes on. Needless to say, it turned out that Steele was very much alive and the gravestone was merely a joke, albeit one the wasn't viewed as being in particularly good taste. Steele was born Petrus T. Ratajczyk on January 4, 1962 in Brooklyn, New York. He stood 6' 7" (201 cm) tall, and had a low, bass-heavy voice, which was one of the most recognizable features in TYPE O NEGATIVE's music. Before forming TYPE O NEGATIVE, Steele played for the metal group FALLOUT and the thrash band CARNIVORE. The joke about his death last time, mainly the "Free at Last" epitaph referred to how the band was finally free from their sh!t deal with Roadrunner Records, there's not too many reasons to fake it this time. RIP Peter, never got to see you on tour, but hope you're enjoying the great gig in the sky.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXE® Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 One of the nicest sanitation engineers from Brooklyn. EVER! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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