Lists In Memoriam: 25 Metal Musicians We Lost Too Soon [UPDATED] June 10, 2022 5:24pm This article pays tribute to those metal musicians who have passed away too early in life. We thank each one for their incredible creativity. […]
News When Peter Steele Started A Fight with Deftones Singer Chino Moreno April 28, 2022 10:53am It was a brutally hot autumn in 1996 when Type O Negative singer Peter Steele went up to Deftones singer Chino Moreno and punched him. “Change (In the House of Pods)” is a Deftones related […]
Lists The 30 Greatest Metal Albums of the ’90s November 10, 2021 12:18pm There’s this narrative pushed by music journalists and nostalgia series that metal died screaming in the ’90s. The idea is that the moment Kurt Cobain first played “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” metal clutched its heart, […]
Lists 13 Metal Songs That Should Be On Every Halloween Playlist October 13, 2021 12:11pm Nothing brings out the metalhead in everyone like Halloween. The spookiest of holidays suddenly makes every Chad and Karen a dabbler in the occult, and covers innocent suburban lawns with gore-drenched zombies and web-suffocated spider […]
Wait...What? Why Type O Negative’s ‘Bloody Kisses’ Owes Everything to Mötley Crüe September 22, 2021 11:28am For many fans, Type O Negative‘s Bloody Kisses is the ultimate goth metal record, and arguably the most important metal album of the ’90s. The 1993 release’s unique mixture of doom metal, goth rock, noise, and […]
Lists 11 Bands Who Wouldn’t Be Here Without Dracula May 26, 2021 10:18am Horror icons have come and gone over the ages, but few if any have remained as immortally loved and feared as Count Dracula. Bram Stoker’s vampire supervillain has been so thoroughly used and adapted over […]
New Music This Synthwave Cover of Type O Negative’s “Black No. 1” Is ’80s Goth Heaven February 15, 2021 1:52pm Part of why the synthwave movement is so attractive to metalheads is that it automatically smacks of the ’80s, and specifically of ’80s horror movies. Sure, you can make synthwave that’s more laser malls than […]
Lists Happy Halloween: Here Are The 31 Spookiest Albums of All Time October 30, 2020 12:47pm At their core, every rock band wants to be at least a little scary. Fear is the oldest, most primal emotion any human being knows, passed down from our caveman ancestors who watched in horror […]
News Watch Members of Windhand, Cave In and More Cover Type O Negative’s “Be My Druidess” August 17, 2020 1:53pm It seems we’re not the only ones who are celebrating the release of Type O Negative’s classic album Bloody Kisses today (and getting turned on by it). That zany Gwarsenio Hall of Two Minutes to Late […]
Lists 10 Type O Negative Songs That Will Immediately Turn You On August 17, 2020 10:30am There are bedroom bands, and then there are bedroom bands, and then there’s Type O Negative. After a short stint as a ragtag hardcore act, the Brooklyn band — led by the towering, rumbling, Playgirl-posing Pete […]
