I then overdubbed bass guitar, two electric guitar parts, and keyboards, one track at a time. I arranged the parts and played the instruments myself unfortunately I could only do one or two takes due to the short amount of studio time we were allotted. The drums were played live on a Kurzweil keyboard. I thought it would be fun to secretly record the song as if it were a legitimate “Type O Negative cover” for the class project and use it to torture her. Around that time I would sing Sarah McLachlan’s “Possession” in Peter Steele’s voice as way to torture my ex-girlfriend who had Sarah’s track in heavy rotation.
TYPE O NEGATIVE COVERS PRO
A Longer Story About the RecordingĪ project for my college audio engineering class tasked us with using Pro Tools to create a multi-track recording. Here’s my longer explanation of how this track came about. Much of the confusion seems to revolve around the intro of the song which contains an audio snippet of an interview with Peter Steele, conducted by my personal friend Jason Zampino. As a fan of Type O, the recording was simply my way of having fun and paying tribute to them.īased on YouTube comments I’ve recently come across, a new generation of people are being confused by my recording. It was never my intention to trick people into downloading the track. It became quite popular, likely due to the confusion of Type O Negative being erroneously labeled as the artist in the metadata/ID3 tag. Eventually MP3s of my recordings appeared on Napster, Scour, and some other widely used file-sharing programs. This predates online trading of MP3s by a few years. The recording was made in 1996 and distributed on CD-Rs to my college classmates and a small number of close, personal friends. My cover of Sarah McLachlan’s “ Possession,” a tribute to the metal band Type O Negative, has apparently caused a minor uproar on the the band’s message board.
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