RIP Pete Steele

The ultimate black light band. I have to admit I didn't quite go gaga over Type O Negative in my teenage years as some of my peers did (October Rust was the only album I could get through), but their doom/gothic slowcore did seem to have some kind of lasting influence though, didn't it? Not that they were the only ones doing it at the time, but having a mainstream band that pitched down surely maybe facilitated the whole Sunn/Xasthur/Jesu axis, no? No? Okay, maybe not...but maybe.