1." Hardly any of the songs need to be as long as they are, but that ridiculous excess is all part of Type O Negative's sly, twistedly affectionate send-up of goth rock conventions. Among other things, that delivery lends hilarious irony to a glum cover of Seals & Crofts' soft rock hit "Summer Breeze" it's also perfect for the deadpan mockery of the goth-girl character sketch "Black No. Steele's lyrics gleefully wallow in goth clichés - sex, death, Christianity, vampires, more sex, and death - and he even sings most of the album in an intentionally vampiric croon straight from the depths of an ancient crypt. But not far beneath the surface, he's also satirizing his own emotional excesses, and those of goth rock in general. Aside from a couple of smart-aleck rants, Peter Steele's dark, melodramatic songs address heartbreak and loneliness in what sounds at first like deadly serious overkill. The quantum leap in songwriting is what really drives the album, but it also coincides with a newfound sense of subtlety. To read the entire interview head to this location.Bloody Kisses was Type O Negative's major step forward, maintaining the long, repetitive song structures of albums past, but adding more atmospheric synths and left-field Beatlesque pop melodies. You give me 20 songs on SOU and I can’t even fuckin’ tell who’s who." Bennett AugThis story originally appeared in the 2009 'Top Shelf Edition' CD reissue of Bloody Kisses. It all sounds the same, it’s all fucking double bass and screaming, BLACK SABBATH rip-off and it all sounds the same. Peter Steele, Kenny Hickey, Josh Silver and Sal Abruscato look back on their goth-metal masterpiece Type O Negative photograph by John Wadsworth text J. And that’s something that I fail to see in almost any band that is coming out today. We have done what we do, we do what we do, and we do at least have our own identity. So the reality is that it’s not likely that we are going to put out something groundbreaking that’s gonna influence 7,000 bands. Not many people are influential over a two-decade period. Silver: "No, I’m just talking like it’s not likely that we’re going to be that influential. Metal Israel: You’re talking like it’s dead already. We did influence a lot of musicians and a big chunk of music and it’s an honor to have been involved in something like that." So I’m pretty happy to have been part of something that had that kind of longevity. I could certainly use some money to survive, but it is what it is. Even though it never really saw an incredible amount of commercial success, I think it was artistically successful. I think we did something very original and very interesting for that time period. Silver: "I think there was a point that when Bloody Kisses came out, it was a very different type of music for the time. Metal Israel: You guys never had a lot of Top 40 acknowledgement but you really stayed the course and you’ve influenced so many people. I’m sure Peter just came up with a graphic symbol that would aggravate people." Do I think that it was intentionally used to imitate that? No. The trichogram that was used by Carnivore was also a South African white power symbol at one point. Silver: "The old controversy? Well, I think rock is also a place where people push the limits. He played for Type O Negative until they disbanded due to Steele's death in 2010. He joined the band at frontman Peter Steele's request. Kenny Hickey (guitar, co-lead vocals), Josh Silver (keyboards. Josh Silver (born November 14, 1962) is an American musician who is the former keyboardist, producer and backing vocalist of gothic metal band Type O Negative. Metal Israel: What do you think of all of the controversy surrounding Carnivore? Type O Negative were an American gothic metal band formed in Brooklyn, New York City in. I mean, there’s always been a number of bands that claim to be skinheads or anti-Jews or anti-Semitic or whatever, but I don’t see it as super trendy." There’s always going to be a group of real Nazis, and there’s always going to be a group of angry little kids that don’t know shit and think they’re Nazis, and think it’s cool because it aggravates the rest of the world.
I’m anti-PC, but I’m not toting swastikas around. Silver: "I don’t think it’s trendy, because the minute anybody uses a swastika two things happen: the public can’t really display anything they do and they get a little hardcore following of children that just think it’s cool to be angry and anti-PC.
Metal Israel: OK, now as a Jew, how do you feel, in the metal world, when you see iron crosses and swastikas as trendy, as normal? Metal Israel spoke to TYPE O NEGATIVE keyboardist Josh Silver recently about a number of topics.
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