YMMV / Type O Negative

• Awesome Music: Their album Bloody Kisses received much critical and listener acclaim as well as being the first record under Roadrunner Records to reach platinum status.
  • Individual song examples: "Black No. 1", "Christian Woman", their covers of "Summer Breeze" and "Cinnamon Girl", "Love You To Death", "Wolf Moon", "Everything Dies" (albeit in the most depressing manner possible), "Pyretta Blaze", "All Hallows Eve", "I Don't Wanna Be Me", "Nettie", "Life Is Killing Me", "Anesthesia", "Dead Again", "September Sun", "The Profits Of Doom" and "Halloween In Heaven" all count, among others.
• Complete Monster: (Steele's previous group "Carnivore"):"Thermonuclear Warrior": The titular Warrior is a man in the post-apocalypse who despises mutants, and takes it upon himself to rid the world of anyone he deems imperfect. Deluding himself into believing it is his divine right, the Warrior goes around the wastes slaughtering innocents, such as the deformed and sickly, using such methods as immolation and drowning. The Warrior claims to have done this to millions in his conquest to "sterilize". The Warrior proudly defends his self-admitted genocide by saying his strength allows him to do what he wants, threatening to smash anyone who resists his will.
• Estrogen Brigade: They're here for Peter.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The band is much more popular in Germany than in the USA. They are also extremely popular in Denmark and Poland, the former due to Steele's love of the place, and the latter due to his Polish ancestry.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Underneath the CD tray of World Coming Down, there is a view of the New York Skyline. Among which are the World Trade Centers. Considering the title of the album, and what would happen a few years later, the coincidence is very eerie. The various songs dealing with the fact that death is inevitable and can come out of nowhere does not help.
  • In 2005, they announced that Peter Steele died. (He had actually been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.) Five years later, he died for real. The one and only album released between Pete's fake death and his real death? Dead Again.
  • His involuntary commitment in 2005 makes 1999's "Who Will Save The Sane" prophetic and tragic.
• Iron Woobie: Peter Steele had a lot of issues, but pushed himself forward despite everything he went through. All with his the dark sense of humor he had.
• Memetic Mutation: "Please buy our product!"
  • Jokes within the fanbase always center around Peter's appearance and how much people really, really love him.
  • The cover of Bloody Kisses.
• Misattributed Song: "Angel," a song by the extremely obscure German Gothic Metal band Tears of Passion, is sometimes mistaken for a Type O Negative song, due to the similarities in style. The sad thing is, the only reason anyone has ever heard of Tears of Passion is because of the confusion.
  • Mad Machinery's cover of Sarah McLachlan's "Possession" is frequently, and erroneously, labeled as a Type O Negative song. The overall style is similar, and the vocals sound almost identical.
  • A supposed Cover Version of "Feel Like Making Love" circulated on filesharing - it was actually the original Bad Company version digitally slowed down as a prank, playing off both Peter Steele's low vocals and their tendency to make their cover songs slower and heavier than the originals.
• Misaimed Fandom:
  • The fan response to "Black No. 1" definitely counts. The song was written to make fun of an ex-girlfriend of Peter's, who just happened to be a goth, yet goths embraced it as a love letter to them.
  • To a certain extent, his Playgirl shoot, which to Peter's dismay, had a large male audience.
• More Popular Spin-Off: A partial example. Pete's earlier bands, the Thrash Metal band Carnivore and the Hard Rock band Fallout, are not as popular as Type O Negative.
• Music to Invade Poland to: Due to some of the lyrics on Slow, Deep and Hard, the band was accused of having far-right sympathies. This also applies to Peter's old band Carnivore, where his super edgy lyrics tend to make others think otherwise of him, not helped by his dark humor comments.
• Nightmare Fuel: "Sinus," "Liver," and "Lung" from World Coming Down are unpleasant soundscapes intended to suggest death via abuse of cocaine, alcohol, and cigarettes, respectively. Pete himself couldn't bring himself to listen to the first one after the album was finished without having an anxiety attack.
  • The soundscape "3.0.I.F." from Bloody Kisses can be considered this as well. Just try to listen to that one without being unnerved.
• No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: "We Hate Everyone" is about this, claiming that attacks from Moral Guardians on both sides of the political spectrum helped give the band enough attention to boost record sales.
• Signature Song: "Black No. 1" and "Christian Woman", both from Bloody Kisses, are the band's best-known songs.
• Squick: Steele didn't exactly steer clear of unsavory subjects.
  • The cover of The Origin of Feces: It's Peter Steele's anus. Augh.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The song "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)" (at least in the intro) feature a backing track and to Philip Glass's "Koyaanisqatsi" taken from the experimental film of the same name.

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