Peter Steele
Type O Negative singer, bassist and songwriter whose baritone, self-lacerating humor and gothic scale made him an underground icon.
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.
Why They’re Fucking Awesome
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
Meaningful connections
- 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
Positive impact
No discrete Good Deed Watch claim is asserted. Avoid converting fan stories into fact; use named bandmate or institutional testimony.
Evidence and disposition
Celebrate documented work and impact. Do not imply the scoped search proves an absence of controversy or harm.
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.
The cosmic file
No reliable birth time was established in this review, so the profile uses an astrology exemption and presents no Ascendant or houses.
Birth-data confidence: no reliable time verified in this pass; No claim made beyond calendar-date sun sign already present in the prior pack.; Do not calculate or publish houses, Moon, or ascendant until a rated time source is reviewed.. Astrology is interpretive and is never medical prediction. A rising-sign link requires reviewed AA, A or B-rated birth-time evidence without an uncertainty qualifier.
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.
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.
Editorial identification only. No endorsement is implied.