This is an interview from MEAT magazine, a Canadian "hard" music mag and 
it is a recent interview so enjoy.  P.S.-> is saw an interview on Much 
Music awhile back with John Silver and he said the whole band share the 
view that the human race is shit and that their not racist but 
anti-human.  Something to think about.


  Type-O negative thrives on fear, hatred, anger and lust, and could care 
less if anyone likes them.  Yet Brooklyn's gothic/metal 
quartet-singer/bassist Peter Steele (ex-Carnivore), keyboardist John 
Silver, guitarist Kenny Hickey, and drummer Sal Abruscato-has mananged to 
weed its way successfully into the music industry.
  Speaking with Silver, he can't explain just why the band has been 
geting such attention since their latest album Bloddy Kisses was released 
more than a year ago.  BLoody Kisses is a far cry from the hatred and 
suffering that engulfed their 1991 Roadrunner debut, Sloe, Deep and Hard, 
and it's follow up the Origin of the Feces.  The album delivers an almost 
hypnotic, pattern-like flow of devilish traits and ghastly images that, 
like a storybook, describe the inner thoughts of the band's loss of love 
and heartbreak.
   "Writing wise, Bloody is written more from a depression and sorrow 
standpoint than the anger SLow... was written from," begins Silver, who 
co-produced the album with Steele.  "It's basically the same 
emotions-deprssion is anger turned inside out.  We are not afraid to 
grow.  We know we are going to change the way we think.  We're really 
just giving our opinion."
   Type-O has surfaced amongst an alterbative rock era and they want no 
part of it.  Their crdibility rests upon going about their own way, even 
if that means they make enemies along the way.
  States Silver, "We are not huge supporters of people eho once weren't 
our friends but now are since our album has sold so many copies."
  Just who does the band credit their succes to?  "Certainly not the 
intellingence of the human race," he qips.  "Maybe somebody is bribing 
someone, or maybe Roadrunner is buying all our albums back.  Success is 
not worth it if it means giving up artistic value or control for any 
amount of money," continues Silver. "And we don't feel like being role 
models.  We're just doing what we like.  I'd rather get a bad reaction 
than no reaction."
   In the future, when the band has tested the time of the music 
industry, Silver states that looking back at what they've done or 
accomplished is useless, meaningless.
   "What is the point?  There is no point looking back because you can't 
change what happened.  You have to look forward.  You can learn from an 
experience and continue on."
  As you may have already figured out, alot of things bother Type-O.  
Struggling bands working hard as opposed to mainstream, overnight success 
stories is just one of his many problems.  "That affects me greatly 
because it is my career, my business.  And I don't like that fact but, 
you know, that is the nature of humans.  Media is going to shove 
something down someone's throat and they are going to take it.  And 
that's the unfortunate nature of man."
  However you intepret the views of Type-O Negative one can't help but 
feel compassion for this band that tries so hard to show others that deep 
down inside we all have problems.  Disturbed?  Possibly.  Just remember, 
negativity fuels their fire, something corporate control or success would 
only snuff out.

The End

Hope you guys like that!

Dennis