TYPE O NEGATIVE Frontman Feels "Special Affinity" With Grigori Rasputin
February 28, 2007, 17 years ago
The following report is courtesy of VH1.com:
A haunting portrait of Grigori Rasputin - the Siberian mystic who was influential in the later days of Russia's Romanov dynasty - graces the cover of TYPE O NEGATIVE's Dead Again, the Brooklyn metallers' first collection of fresh material since 2003's Life Is Killing Me. For frontman Peter Steele, going with Rasputin's image as the LP's art was a no-brainer, for several reasons.
"He's, like, probably the best-looking Type O Negative member," Steele joked. "He really puts us to shame. Also, I feel a kind of special affinity with him. The guy was an Orthodox Russian, and I'm a Roman Catholic. He was an alcoholic, a drug addict, a womanizer. ... He got into fights after Mass, and the communists couldn't kill him. The Bolsheviks tried to assassinate him a whole bunch of times and failed, and I thought, 'Man, this guy gets away with it. He dodges a bullet with everything he f---ing does, and so do I.' Plus, Rasputin was able to cure hemophilia, and that comes into the blood theme - you know, Type O Negative. And he looks like one of us — he hasn't bathed in two months, he's unshaven and he hated the world."To read the entire interview head to this location.
Dead Again is due out through SPV on March 13th in North America.
