Type O Negative was an American gothic metal band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 1989. The band was formed by vocalist and bassist Peter Steele, guitarist Kenny Hickey, keyboardist Josh Silver, and drummer Sal Abruscato, who was later replaced by Johnny Kelly. Their lyrical emphasis on themes of addiction, death, depression, religion, romance, and sex resulted in the nickna…

The Media Station did not sit upon the earth; it festered in a jagged rift of reality where the laws of physics had long ago suffered a nervous breakdown. It was a cathedral of discarded static and corrupted signals, a spire of rusted iron and pulsing obsidian that pierced the bruised, violet clouds of the Void. To the uninitiated, it was a graveyard of information. To those…

DID YOU KNOW? In 1991, the Alice in Chains members joined the “Clash of the Titans” tour as a support act alongside Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax. The exposure on that heavy metal arena tour introduced Alice in Chains to hundreds of thousands of fans who had never heard them, months before Dirt was even recorded. It remains one of the most unexpected and consequential tour plac…