Peter Steele photo by Manuel Lino; originally posted to Flickr as Type O Negative - Coliseu dos Recreios; CC BY-SA 2.0. License

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Peter Steele

Type O Negative singer, bassist and songwriter whose baritone, self-lacerating humor and gothic scale made him an underground icon.

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Life, work & what’s documented

Peter Steele was born 1962-01-04 and died 2010-04-14 at age 48. Type O Negative singer, bassist and songwriter whose baritone, self-lacerating humor and gothic scale made him an underground icon. Type O Negative's towering frontman fused doom, goth, hardcore humor and melancholy into a singular voice.

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Type O Negative's towering frontman fused doom, goth, hardcore humor and melancholy into a singular voice.

Essential works: Bloody Kisses · October Rust · World Coming Down

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Type O NegativeFounded / Peter Steele founded and led Type O Negative.Relationship source / confidence: high
Doom metalAssociated With / Type O Negative's slow, heavy and atmospheric work connects Peter Steele to doom-metal lineage.Relationship source / confidence: medium

Statistics / evidence

Context is not destiny

Born 1962-01-04; died 2010-04-14; age at death 48. These dates provide historical context, not a mortality model.

Death context: Peter Steele died on 2010-04-14 at age 48. This profile states only the sourced date and age until a reviewed cause or circumstance source is attached.

Historical illness and age are context, not proof of a current crisis or a factual mortality forecast.

Astrology / interpretation

The cosmic file

SunCapricorn 13.7°

MoonSagittarius 16.9°

MercuryCapricorn 24.9°

VenusCapricorn 8.2°

MarsCapricorn 8.1°

JupiterAquarius 11.2°

SaturnAquarius 0.1°

UranusVirgo 0.2°

NeptuneScorpio 13.0°

PlutoVirgo 10.0°

Time-stable natal aspects

Sun conjunction Venus orb 5.6°
Sun conjunction Mars orb 5.7°
Sun sextile Neptune orb 1.1°
Sun trine Pluto orb 4.2°
Mercury conjunction Saturn orb 5.9°
Venus conjunction Mars orb 0.3°
Venus trine Pluto orb 2.5°
Mars trine Pluto orb 2.3°
Jupiter square Neptune orb 1.9°
Neptune sextile Pluto orb 3.1°

These placements are deterministic astronomical calculations. Interpretive meaning is presented separately and uncertainty is retained.

Calculation confidence: date_based_reliable. Moon: date based reliable. Rising sign: birth time needed. Date-based geocentric placements use a noon UTC reference. Moon is evaluated across the full UTC day. No Ascendant or houses are inferred. Astrology is interpretation, not fact, medicine, or mortality prediction.

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Sources & provenance

Wikidata item Q379250Wikidata / 2026-08-26 / identity / confidence: mediumSource ID peter-steele:discovery_index:1. Verification: identity_discovery_only. Claims: identity.
Type O Negative official siteType O Negative / 2026-08-26 / biography / confidence: primarySource ID peter-steele:official-legacy:1. Verification: content_reviewed. Claims: good deed or positive legacy, legacy treatment.
Peter Steele, Type O Negative Singer, Has DiedCBS News / 2010-04-15 / death / confidence: highContemporaneous report used for death date and career context; early cause speculation is not repeated.

Official links

Type O NegativeOfficial Site

Batch adw-publication-batch-2026-08-26-01. Research package completeness 96/100. Claims are linked to the source IDs retained in source notes.

Research last updated 2026-08-26.

Image rights

Portrait provenance

Peter Steele photo by Manuel Lino; originally posted to Flickr as Type O Negative - Coliseu dos Recreios; CC BY-SA 2.0.

Exact source file · CC BY-SA 2.0 2.0 · Retrieved 2026-08-27.

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