Peter Steele
Peter Steele
Petrus Thomas Ratajczyk, better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative. Before forming Type O Negative, he had created the metal group Fallout and the thrash band Carnivore...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMetal Singer
Date of Birth4 January 1962
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
dumped goth metal mind
If we're going to be dumped into, say, goth metal or something like that, I really don't mind being called that.
band considered fortunate songs
We've been fortunate that we could choose, from all the songs I'd written, those that the band considered to be the best.
execute love wrote
When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.
tony
If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.
rap people definitions
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.
confused insecure confusion
I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.
humor insecure insecurity
As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.
labels contracts fulfilled
Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.
suicide suicidal darkness
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
labels ive-learned contracts
I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.
fighting talking drug
There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family
human million
I'm a 'specist.' I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race. I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man.
atheists change crisis death hoping realize start time
There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God.
american-musician people
So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.