It's not as melancholic, like "Fuck life, kill yourself." etc. But on a side note, I believe that this forthcoming album, "Dead Again", is probably the most positive TYPE O album. So TYPE O NEGATIVE is just one of Peter Steele's many faces, 'cos everyone has many faces. is really making the people I care about happy. It makes me feel better when I can express my depression, my anger, my frustration through music. Peter: Food? Actually, I've always been a very depressed person, but that’s only one side of me, you know. Are you really like that in private? What makes you happy? : Peter, you have given given the impression of being a depressed and gloomy person. Fortunately, I feel like I have a second chance, and maybe I can make amends by saying to the fans, don't try it! It's hurt me, it's hurt my friends and family and it's hurting the band, my reputation. Over the course of 10 years I've been up and down. I was 35 years old when I started using cocaine and how fucking stupid is that? I am ashamed of myself. So I hope I can give something to the fans by saying, If you haven't tried drugs - DON'T. There is an old saying it's better to learn from the mistakes of others than from your own.
I feel like I've killed part of myself, so hence "Dead Again". When I wake up the next day, or next week, however long the binge lasts, I feel this great sense of shame.
I'm not gonna say I'm an angel or fully recovered at times I do find myself indulging. I was pretty lost in the cocaine thing for a couple of years. Peter: Well, I'm not 100%, since alcohol is a liquid drug. : The song "Dead Again" touches on drug abuse. We have the videos lined up to do once we get back to New York. We'll also play "Dead Again", "Profits Of Doom" as well.
I left his name off the list of the deceased, I didn't want people to think that I was exploiting his death. I miss him very much - we all miss him very much. Dimebag Darrell was a very close friend and it kind of inspired me to write that song because I know that Dimebag is in a much better place right now and I'm sure he's out there with Bonham, Entwistle and Lennon and all the other famous dead rock 'n' roll musicians. Peter: It actually has a very somber meaning. : There is a song on the album called "Halloween in Heaven". And he looks like a TYPE O NEGATIVE member! But a very good-looking one, haha. And the communists couldn't kill him, just like they could not kill me. It's also the whole blood thing he could cure the Romanov prince of hemophilia just by looking at the kid. And being Slavic and having quite a bit in common with Rasputin - he was an alcoholic, a drug addict, a womanizer, he had a big penis. Peter: Me being the songwriter and art coordinator for the band I thought the visual would go with the title "Dead Again". : The cover of the album is of Russian mystic Rasputin. After we finished the DVD we finally went into the studio and started to rehearse for the album and that brings us to March 19th. In the meantime I was writing songs for this forthcoming album. At the same time we were working on the "Sympathy for the Devil" DVD. So we kind of fell off the face of the earth for awhile. So we didn’t sign with Roadrunner Records again, they were not giving us any tour support or anything else. Which is not a good thing to do for a band while writing songs. After that we did a couple of tours and at the same time we were switching record labels. Peter: Last album was released in June 2003. Johnny: We were traveling through space! Haha… : The new album has been a long time in the making, tell us why? A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Tina Cederberg of Sweden's recently conducted an interview with TYPE O NEGATIVE members Peter Steele (vocals, bass) and Johnny Kelly (drums).
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