Until his late teens, Steele was a fully paid-up member of the headbangers’ club, getting off on AC/DC and Black Sabbath. Then he got bored and discovered New York’s famous CBGB club.
Cutting edge hardcore bands like the Cro-Mags and Agnostic Front were a revelation to him, as were the diversity of the crowds. Skins, punks, rockers, and goths mingled as one. In a way, this planted the seeds for what he eventually had the courage to do with Type O Negative.
“You can learn something from everyone if you have an open mind,” he says. “It was a real nice feeling to be able to look the way you feel without anyone bothering you. Apart from the cops.”
Peter Steele ~ Kerrang Magazine 1996













