Type O Negative

This article is about a band. For information about the blood type see blood type.

Trivia

• The alternative "Blood and Fire" present on the Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack (1995) can now also be found on the bonus CD of Life Is Killing Me.
• The album Life Is Killing Me was originally to be titled The Dream Is Dead (the name of the closing song), leading some fans to believe that the band was retiring.
• The band regularly tunes their guitars to B (tunings run thusly: BEADGB for guitars, BEAD for bass - the same tuning as used for 7-string guitars and 5-string basses respectively), rather than the traditional E (which would run EADGBE for guitars, EADG for bass). This enables the band to get a heavier sound.
• The computer game Descent 2 featured the track "Haunted".
• The Blood computer game by Monolith Productions featured the track "Love You To Death."
• At least two videos were banned by MTV ("My Girlfriend's Girlfriend" and "Love You To Death" according to the After Dark documentary) ? though they are tame by today's standards.
• The band like to refer to themselves as "The Drab Four," in homage to The Beatles' "The Fab Four" moniker. On the reverse side of one T-shirt they referred to themselves as "the Rehab Four." They also cover three Beatles songs in a medley on World Coming Down
• Studio-recorded covers include a superb and extremely reworked rendition of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," the tongue-in-cheek "Angry Inch" (from Hedwig and The Angry Inch), "Pictures of Matchstick Men" with Ozzy Osbourne, two versions of "Black Sabbath" (one with the original lyrics and one rewritten by Peter Steele to be from Satan's perspective), Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" (remade as "Hey Pete" and woven into a multiple-song story arch), Deep Purple's "Highway Star," The Beatles "Day Tripper," Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl," Seals and Crofts' "Summer Breeze" (an unauthorized version of which, featuring modified lyrics by Peter Steele, is called "Summer Girl," and includes the TON-original outro "Set Me On Fire"). They have also covered The Doors' "Light My Fire" (which Steele described as "probably the greatest song ever written" before apologizing for having "destroyed it," true to TON's self-depreciating sense of humor) and Black Sabbath's "N.I.B." live.
• Incorrectly attributed covers include "Possession," "Angel," "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and "Hit Me Baby One More Time."
• Frontman Peter Steele has appeared naked in Playgirl.
• The album cover of Origin Of The Feces was originally thought to be the mouth of a lamprey, but closer inspection revealed it to be a close up of frontman Peter Steele's anus with his hands streching his buttocks. The album was given a different cover after discovering what the original cover really was.
• The song 'Haunted' appears on the Blair Witch Project 'soundtrack' CD. The CD didn't feature music that was in the movie, but was supposed to contain music from a 'tape that was found in the woods with the lost people's gear'.