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Type O Negative

Type O Negative formed in Brooklyn in 1989 around Peter Steele's bottomless baritone and were nicknamed “the Drab Four”: songs about addiction, death, depression, religion and sex, steeped in gloom and wicked humour. Bloody Kisses went platinum, and October Rust went gold.

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Sound & mood

Style
  • Gothic metal
  • Doom
  • Gothic rock
Mood
  • Gloomy
  • Sardonic
  • Sensual

Blackness

84/100

Pitch black

Craziness

50/100

Restless

Editorial ratings, not measured data. Blackness is how dark, heavy and bleak the music feels; Craziness is how unhinged, chaotic and experimental it gets. Both are our critics’ call on a 0–100 scale. How we score them

In our articles

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