Songs such as “ Race War“, “ USA for USA“, “J esus Hitler” and “ Male Supremacy” stirred up plenty of controversy and led to him being branded a “Nazi” – amongst other things – in the European press. With Carnivore, Steele appeared to go out of his way to offend just about anyone who cared to listen. Both albums are an acquired taste but do have quite a bit in common with early Type O Negative and serve as an interesting insight into what was to come.
įormed in 1982, Steele’s next venture was the highly controversial hardcore crossover thrash of Carnivore. Sonically both their self titled debut and the follow up Retaliation are relatively harsh but by this stage Steele’s songwriting skills were starting to blossom as he delivered longer, more progressive tracks. “Rock Hard” is the better of the two tracks and while Steele was only seventeen years old at the time of the singles release, his dark sense of humour was already coming through in this ode to a dead girlfriend. “Batteries Not Included” left little impression but its tale of computers turning against mankind would fit in well with his work in Carnivore and has a Cold War, impending apocalypse vibe to it. All in all, Fallout‘s sole release is a pretty amateurish effort but you can still hear traces of what Steele would go on to do with Type O Negative in terms of melody and the especially in the lyrical content of “Rock Hard”. Fallout And Carnivore (1970 – 1987)įallout, a band Steele joined when only in his teens, left little in the way of recorded output, releasing just one 7″ untitled single in 1981 containing two tracks A-Side “ Rock Hard” and B-Side “Batteries Not Included”. It is now just over five years since his death and the time seems right to cast an eye over his contribution to heavy metal and the bands and albums that benefitted from his substantial talent. Well known for his deeply personal, often controversial lyrical content and dark sense of humour, Peter Steele was a formidable presence in the metal community and following his death in 2010, many of the great and the good of the metal world came out with stories of his generosity and the good times they shared. Petrus Thomas Ratajczyk, more commonly known to us as Peter Steele, was – quite literally – a colossus of the metal world. Best known for his work with gothic metal giants Type O Negative, Steele began his career in the little known heavy metal band Fallout – with future Type O band mate Josh Silver – before turning his hand to crossover thrash with Carnivore and going on to form the band that would cement his place as heavy metal royalty goth/doom legends Type O Negative.
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