![]() We were going, ‘What the hell are we doing here?’ We were just four guys from Brooklyn, we weren’t living that lifestyle.” “There were people dressed up and walking around on leashes. “It was this underground BDSM place with all this torture equipment,” says Sal. At one point, the band were booked to play a club in New York that turned out to be a sex dungeon. The gigs started getting bigger – and weirder. And the band soon started attracting a lot of female fans because of it.” I remember there was a store in East Village that started selling all kinds of ruffled shirts and velvet jackets and shit. “It was around the time of that movie, Interview With The Vampire, and everything blew up after that. “The whole vampire allure connected with people,” says Sal. That non-existent goth metal scene had suddenly been willed into life. Amazingly, an edited version of the latter became a US radio hit, helping propel Bloody Kisses to Gold and then Platinum status in the US. It was followed by Christian Woman, eight minutes of quasi-religious erotica that found Steele intoning the line ‘Jesus Christ looks like me’ in his sonorous voice. Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All) was a sarcastic, multi-part 11-minute ode to a girlfriend who had wronged the singer, that came with Addams Family-style finger clicks. ![]() The album’s first two singles repositioned Type O at the forefront of a non-existent goth metal scene. (Image credit: Mick Hutson/Redferns/Getty Images) ![]()
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