SR: I just got the Donnington Festival lineup. PS: Yes, we're leaving next week to play ten festivals and then we're doing two weeks of press. We might be touring with them in Europe around Christmas. It was quite refreshing and I miss them a lot. I mean I'm not really into partying, but they're just down-to-earth fun people. PS: (laughter) The Pantera tour was fun just because those guys are party animals. SR: Okay, next time I'll come over and say 'Hey, good lookin' what you got cookin'? What's been your favorite tour to date. I was hanging around but didn't see a time when I could interrupt you with so many folks around you. I just wanted to leave the man alone and have some peace. I didn't want to be like every other band who's toured with him these last 25 years and who wanted to tell him what an influence he was. SR: That's too bad because you have a lot in common. But, otherwise, there wasn't any mingling or hanging out. He came into our dressing room once or twice and said a few kind words to us. Osbourne seemed to be really busy at that point. SR: Did you have any time to spend with Ozzy? I only recall one bad show on that tour and it wasn't the Austin show, so I'm forced to say that it was a good show. PS: Really? I'm trying to think of the Austin show. SR: I've always thought you would make a great runway model. I consider myself to be 240 pounds of organic chemicals and that's really about it. PS: It's a strange thing people have said this to me but I don't even think I have a spirit. I consider you to be quite a spiritual person, personally speaking. SR: I love your sense of humor, it's so great. So I just had to play Beatles albums backwards and steal all the riffs off the Sgt. Unfortunately, I don't have a soul so when I looked into myself there's nothing there but a black hole. So I really had to search my soul to come up with some ideas. PS: Yeah, that was not conducive to creativity.sitting in the back of a tour bus, looking at the Martian landscape outside the window wondering where the hell I am now. Now this album was mostly written in the back of a bus while on tour. SR: Our last interview you were talking about how you wrote a lot of songs waiting your turn to dump your trash load. You're not working for the State of New York anymore. SR: Is that your garbage truck that you sampled? Do you miss it? Simple little things and then I exaggerated them on the album to make them a little more interesting but, yeah the ideas did come from when I was a post-pubescent. I remember these little riffs I came up with. You remember back that far, hell I can't remember last week. SR: It says here in the biography that some of these parts were written when you were 13 or 14 years of age. It's as if two people are playing his instrument. Paul McCartney as one of my all-time heroes because he is such a great vocalist and bassist, yet he can do both things completely independent of each other. PS: It's a very difficult thing to do that's why I look at Mr. SR: I did learn one thing from your website, your lifetime goal is to be able to play bass and sing at the same time. #METALOPOCOLYPES VS TYP O NEGATIVE FULL#I like working with metal so I'm often full of rust. I would like to conjure up an image into the minds of our fans as to what our fans may interpret it to mean. PS: First and foremost I just like the way the word sounds. SR: Is there any significance to the album's title? I hit upon a chat room that was asking the question, is Type O Negative gothic? I told him to put the new album on, turn it up to eleven, put on the headphones and just leave his body. SR: At 3:00 am this morning I got in from the Butthole Surfers concert and I was listening to the advance tracks.surfing through Roadrunner's website looking for more information on you. The goal is to try to layer stuff on top of other stuff, nice and compact, but not muddy. Anybody can scream and have a tantrum, but that doesn't take much talent. PS: It's a lot more laid back and it's more sensual. SR: The production on this album is so rich. You had a lot of directions you could have gone such as the "Kill All" and "We Hate Everyone" route. SR: I've been listening to this advance CD of several tunes from the upcoming album. to be waiting outside my house any day now. PS: I'm going to have to give it some more thought. SR: Where do I sign up for the overthrow? Are you going to lead us? (This is in reference to the song "Wolf Moon." Steele is a firm believer that this country should be overthrown and renamed Vinnland which is the name the Vikings gave the U.S. SR: It's a pleasure to be talking to you again. Lineup: Peter Steele, vocals/bass Josh Silver, keyboards Kenny Hickey, guitar Johnny Kelly, drums Album: October Rust (which is slated for a late August release)
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