In his later years, beginning with Type O’s 1993 breakout album Bloody Kisses, his anger subsided and gave way to a more romantic, sensual variation on the band’s original theme.
Their 1991 debut album was called Slow, Deep, And Hard (also a juvenile nod to their low-end heavy, gothic style of doom) and its general theme was a fantasy Peter had about killing his girlfriend and then himself after he catches her cheating. Type O Negative established their dark brand of gothic eroticism early.
The song creates a fantasy of Peter Steele seeing through your appearance… but still wanting to spend Halloween night with you. ‘ She’s in love with herself, she likes the dark… On her milk white neck, the devil’s mark,’ Peter croons in a near-whisper, emphasising the ‘k’ in a way that makes you think of bared fangs.Ĭoncluding with the mildly necrophilic jeer, ‘ Loving you was like loving the dead’ the song remains a deviously cheeky double entendre: it’s both an anthem for goth girls everywhere unashamed of their vanity, and a cathartic track for anyone who has found themselves stuck in a soul-sucking relationship with a narcissist. The song – from Type O’s 1993 breakout album Bloody Kisses – is the sarcastic tale of a vain woman with a penchant for darkness who won’t go out on a rainy, blustery All Hallow’s Eve until she perfects her look by dying her roots jet-black. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All), sung by Peter Steele – the band’s hulking frontman who looked like he just galloped off the cover of a gothic romance novel – still send a tingle down many a spine. Those breathy words in the middle of Type O Negative’s ghoulish Halloween sing-along hit Black No.
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