“He was not doing well physically or psychologically with addiction. And when you hit a wall that hard you become disillusioned”: The tragic story of a late goth metal icon’s final album

Type O Negative posing against a black background.

Type O Negative’s Dead Again was born out of a period of tribulation, anxiety, misery and uncertainty. Come to think of it, every Type O Negative album was born out of such circumstances, but their 2007 swansong’s gestation was more chaotic than most.

Asked why there had been a four-year gap between the band’s previous album, 2003’s Life Is Killing Me and its follow-up, frontman Peter Steele neatly summed up the challenges. “Josh [Silver, keyboards] lost his father, I lost my mother, then there was rehab, jail, hospitals, getting divorced…you have to work around these things,” he told Decibel at the time.