There's definitely a very heavy Beatles influence but at the same time: There's always been a certain Beatle influence in everything that we've done so far. I think "Electrocute" is a good example for it. For me it's a bit like taking the catchy way Beatles songs are and the melancholy of Black Sabbath songs / of the way their guitars sound. Three keywords? Okay: Punk, metal, goth - that's it!! Can you describe the new album in just a few key words? And now don't say Type O Negative, please. Josh, Johnny and Kenny have children, my mother is in the hospital with diabetic so there have been lots of interruptions both good and bad when it comes to this album. but I have to point out that it has been quite a bit of interruptions. How long have you been working on the album?Ībout two years. And so I wanted to incorporate everything that the band has ever done onto an album. ![]() Some songs sound like 60s, some like hardcore, some sound like goth or metal. In this album I wanted there to be more contrast between the songs like different styles. There weren't really any fast songs and there was nothing to brake up the funeral march. ![]() The last studio album "World Coming Down" was I think a little bit too self- indulged in a self-pitious way. What did you want to change after the last and fourth studio album? It was just: Well, if they don't like the songs they can skip them. It's not that we thought that these songs were so great. They are fans and if we have that many songs written we put them on there. My attitude has always been: If the kids gonna pay the same prize wether it is ten or 15 songs, I give them 15. I don't know if that's right but up to the fact that you can put I think about 80 minutes onto a cd these days that's really not much. My friend told me that the new Linking Park album is like 36 or 39 minutes. Did you have so much good material that you couldn't leave so many songs out or what was the reason? The album includes 15 songs - that's really great and quite unusual today. You gotta pick yourself up which is very difficult. When things go wrong there is nobody there to pick you up. The song pretty much means that you can't take anything for granted. You know, everybody is out with their girlfriend, their fiancé or their wife and I am going to the cemetery. It's about my father dying on Valentine's Day which is always pleasant for me on every 14th of February. The song "The Dream is dead" is really negative. ![]() It's a little bit more like an ironic title. I just love the stupid Type O Negative humour. It seemed to be like one of the more catchy ones. I also like "Live Is Killing Me" just because of how the song itself came out. Maybe like "World Coming Down" which in my opinion was too negative. "The Dream Is Dead" seemed to be a bit too negative for us. Now it has changed and the album is called "Life Is Killing Me". There were a few working titles concerning the album and then you decided on "The Dream Is Dead". A very talkative, nice man told me then a lot about the sound and the lyrics of "Life Is Killing Me", about what he is longing for and about black boxershorts with a little bit orange. It was definitely time to talk with Peter about the new album and to get an idea of his sarcastic way of humour. And yes: They definitely did their job more than good! In April Steele and drummer Johnny Kelly were on promo tour in Europe and also spent one day in Hamburg. ![]() After their last longplayer "World Coming Down" (1999) which didn't escape out of its depressing, negative atmosphere and about which Mr Steele thinks he has a bit to say sorry for we could have been very curious what the new album would sound like if they even succeed in creating such a genius work as "Bloody Kisses" is in my opinion. are coming back with their fifth studio album "Life Is Killing Me", ready to make our ears bleed again. Just about two weeks and we can finally hold the new Type O Negative album in our hands! On June the 17th Peter Steele and Co.
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