He’d repeat this theme on Type O Negative’s debut, Slow, Deep and Hard, in the lyrics to the song “Der Untermensch,” and in interviews throughout his career. He penned the words for fellow New York hardcore band Agnostic Front on their 1986 song “Public Assistance,” a racist screed against so-called welfare queens. What Steele became infamous for in the mid-’80s, though, was his racist and misogynistic lyrics-written off by fans and hagiographers as “sarcastic”-and by extension, his perceived worldview. The album is good, if musically unremarkable, crossover thrash. Glancing merely at the tracklist, Retaliation anticipates most Type O Negative albums: a joke opener (“Jack Daniel’s and Pizza”), classic rock cover halfway through (Jimi Hendrix’s “Manic Depression”), and a smattering of offensive song titles ( honestly, take your pick). Steele hinted at Type O Negative’s style back in 1987, the same year he started in the Parks Department and released his thrash band Carnivore’s second and final album, Retaliation. Never again would Steele make an album that straddled these two worlds, with one foot in a mud-flecked work boot, the other in pristine black leather. In creating Bloody Kisses, Steele re-invented goth metal by grasping on to influences like Black Sabbath and the Beatles, and creating a lane for mainstream goth-influenced bands from Finland’s HIM to Evanescence. Coming out of the 1980s as an all-star in the New York City thrash metal world-a scene that bred bands like Anthrax, Overkill, and Nuclear Assault-he entered the next decade with that same brash attitude, but with an urge to slow things down. But Steele didn’t care about the death metal part he just wanted the doom. The genre was a self-serious mashup of death metal and doom that left little room for outsized personalities like Steele. Goth metal, then still in its infancy, was made popular in the early ’90s by “The Peaceville Three,” which included My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, and Anathema, all from Northern England. In that same interview, he reveals that the song has some verisimilitude: “It’s about the girl I fucking slashed my wrists over,” a reference to his 1989 suicide attempt. But Steele made an industry of synthesizing the ironic with the sublimely earnest. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)” is a send-up of the goth-girl archetype (”She’s got a date at midnight with Nosferatu/Oh, baby, Lily Munster ain’t got nothing on you”), the title referring to the only thing a Little Miss Scare-All could ever truly fear: the roots of her hair showing. The vampire of South Brooklyn, who shoveled shit between band practices, cut both a relatable and controversial figure. It was, he later told an interviewer for the deluxe reissue of his band Type O Negative’s landmark third album, Bloody Kisses, about “the ultimate goth girl” who was “in love with herself.” And for three hours, while sitting in traffic waiting to unload a truckful of excrement, he composed a song in his head. He was an archetype for the brooding, hypermasculine metalhead that crawled out of the primordial ooze. 12 overall draft pick in 2020.Steele looked like a more Nordic Undertaker, or Glenn Danzig but a foot taller. The Alabama product was in his second season and was a starting wide receiver at the time of his arrest. The Raiders released Ruggs later that day. Tintor, 23, and her dog, Max, were were killed.Īccording to reports at the time, Ruggs refused to take a field sobriety test, and a blood draw about two hours after the crash revealed his blood-alcohol level was 0.161 - over twice the legal limit in Nevada. 2, 2021, when he crashed into the car of Tina Tintor, causing it to burst into flames. on a Las Vegas city street in the early hours of Tuesday, Nov. Police stated that Ruggs was driving drunk and driving at 156 m.p.h. The three to 10-year term has been agreed to by his lawyers but still needs to be approved by a judge, ProFootballTalk reported for NBC Sports. As part of his plea agreement, the charges against Ruggs of one count of DUI causing substantial harm (regarding his passenger) and two counts of reckless driving were dropped. Ruggs, 24, has his next court date in Las Vegas on May 10, when he is formally expected to plead guilty. He will plead guilty to one count of DUI resulting in death and one count of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter stemming from a November 2021 Las Vegas car crash in which a 23-year-old woman and her dog were killed, ESPN reported. 9.įormer Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs is expected to serve three to 10 years in Nevada State prison after he unconditionally waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Tuesday. He will be sentenced to between three and 10 years in a Nevada state prison Aug. Former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs formally plead guilty in a DUI case and accepted his plea agreement in a Las Vegas courtroom on Wednesday morning.
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