58-491: Blabbermouth.net is a website dedicated to heavy metal and hard rock news, as well as album and music DVD reviews. It is run by the website's founder Borivoj Krgin. The first version of the website was launched in March 2001. In October 2001, the record label Roadrunner Records began hosting it. Users can post comments to selected news articles and album reviews, either in response to other user comments or in response to
116-407: A classic website , a five-page website or a brochure website are often static websites, because they present pre-defined, static information to the user. This may include information about a company and its products and services through text, photos, animations, audio/video, and navigation menus. Static websites may still use server side includes (SSI) as an editing convenience, such as sharing
174-456: A 2018 interview with Revolver Magazine, "There was a lot of pressure for him to take the band to the next level, but he didn't want to quit his job... There was a point where it looked like the band might break up." Bloody Kisses mostly addressed loneliness and heartbreak, with songs like "Too Late: Frozen", "Blood & Fire" and "Can't Lose You". The organ -driven "Set Me on Fire" is vintage 1960s garage rock , while " Summer Breeze " covered
232-489: A box set of all the band's albums (with the exception of Dead Again ) for Back to Black Friday 2011, a spinoff of Record Store Day , on November 25, 2011. Each vinyl cover has no text and The Origin of the Feces uses its original cover art. The box set also contains various bumper stickers related to the band. In a June 2023 interview with Loaded Radio , Hickey was asked about the future of Type O Negative. He said that he
290-899: A common menu bar across many pages. As the site's behavior to the reader is still static, this is not considered a dynamic site. A dynamic website is one that changes or customizes itself frequently and automatically. Server-side dynamic pages are generated "on the fly" by computer code that produces the HTML (CSS are responsible for appearance and thus, are static files). There are a wide range of software systems, such as CGI , Java Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP), Active Server Pages and ColdFusion (CFML) that are available to generate dynamic Web systems and dynamic sites . Various Web application frameworks and Web template systems are available for general-use programming languages like Perl , PHP , Python and Ruby to make it faster and easier to create complex dynamic websites. A site can display
348-550: A frequent sample in Grand Theft Auto IV , on the Liberty Rock Radio Station, and 2012 video game The Darkness II features Type O Negative's " Black No. 1 " in its multiplayer lobby, played at random amongst other songs. Type O Negative performed and recorded numerous covers. The Doors ' " Light My Fire " has been covered live numerous times, mostly during the 1990s. Steele has described
406-426: A future date. We'd like to share our thoughts and those of Peter's family below. We are truly saddened to lose our friend and appreciate the tremendous outpouring today from around the world. Sincerely, Josh, Kenny and Johnny In a November 2010 interview with Rock Hard magazine, Johnny Kelly and Kenny Hickey confirmed that following Steele's death, Type O Negative had split up. Roadrunner Records released
464-474: A large series of static pages. Early websites had only text, and soon after, images. Web browser plug-ins were then used to add audio, video, and interactivity (such as for a rich Web application that mirrors the complexity of a desktop application like a word processor). Examples of such plug-ins are Microsoft Silverlight , Adobe Flash Player , Adobe Shockwave Player , and Java SE . HTML 5 includes provisions for audio and video without plugins. JavaScript
522-551: A list of female character names from television shows. The album includes a humorous cover of the song "Angry Inch" from the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch , detailing a sex change operation gone terribly wrong. Type O Negative left Roadrunner after the album's release, having fulfilled their contract for the label. In June 2004, Type O Negative signed to the Steamhammer imprint of SPV Records . Their only album for
580-971: A milestone confirmed by Netcraft in its October 2014 Web Server Survey and that Internet Live Stats was the first to announce—as attested by this tweet from the inventor of the World Wide Web himself, Tim Berners-Lee—the number of websites in the world have subsequently declined, reverting to a level below 1 billion. This is due to the monthly fluctuations in the count of inactive websites. The number of websites continued growing to over 1 billion by March 2016 and has continued growing since. Netcraft Web Server Survey in January 2020 reported that there are 1,295,973,827 websites and in April 2021 reported that there are 1,212,139,815 sites across 10,939,637 web-facing computers, and 264,469,666 unique domains. An estimated 85 percent of all websites are inactive. A static website
638-602: A rendition of Black Sabbath 's " Paranoid " and "N.I.B."; Status Quo 's " Pictures of Matchstick Men " with Ozzy Osbourne , two versions of "Black Sabbath" (one with the original lyrics and one rewritten by Peter Steele to be from Satan's perspective), Jimi Hendrix 's " Hey Joe " (rewritten as "Hey Pete"); the Beatles ' " Back in the U.S.S.R. ", Deep Purple 's " Highway Star ", and Creedence Clearwater Revival 's " Bad Moon Rising ". A medley of Santana 's "Evil Ways", "Oye Como Va", and " Black Magic Woman " are also available on
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#1732791136445696-410: A result of Howard Stern being a self-professed fan, Private Parts: The Album contains " Pictures of Matchstick Men " with the band playing music and Ozzy Osbourne on vocals. "Haunted" also appears on The Blair Witch Project "soundtrack CD" (the album's concept was to contain songs from "a tape that was found in the woods with the students' gear"). In 1998, Arrow Videos made their own version of
754-492: A rumor he deems worthy of posting, Krgin will first research and contact people related to the band and question them about the rumour. It is reported that 90% of the information posted is either found online or is submitted directly to the website by bands, managers, labels, or associated persons. Blabbermouth.net is described by the London Free Press as a "reliable industry and fan site". Die Welt has called
812-525: A server. These protocols offer a simple directory structure in which the user navigates and where they choose files to download. Documents were most often presented as plain text files without formatting or were encoded in word processor formats. While "web site" was the original spelling (sometimes capitalized "Web site", since "Web" is a proper noun when referring to the World Wide Web), this variant has become rarely used, and "website" has become
870-668: A story involving a man enacting revenge on a cheating girlfriend before ultimately contemplating his actions and committing suicide. They began creating a new album, with the idea of presenting it as a live album. The subsequent 1992 album was entitled The Origin of the Feces and a warning label was put on the album cover: "Not Live at Brighton Beach". The album contains faux-live recordings of songs from Slow, Deep and Hard , as well as previously unreleased songs such as "Are You Afraid" and "Hey Pete" (a cover of Jimi Hendrix 's " Hey Joe " with altered lyrics) and Black Sabbath's " Paranoid ". Type O Negative's third album, Bloody Kisses ,
928-492: Is also built into most modern web browsers, and allows for website creators to send code to the web browser that instructs it how to interactively modify page content and communicate with the web server if needed. The browser's internal representation of the content is known as the Document Object Model (DOM). WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a modern JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D graphics without
986-651: Is called a web browser . The World Wide Web (WWW) was created in 1989 by the British CERN computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee . On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to use for anyone, contributing to the immense growth of the Web. Before the introduction of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), other protocols such as File Transfer Protocol and the gopher protocol were used to retrieve individual files from
1044-516: Is generally non-interactive. This type of website usually displays the same information to all visitors. Similar to handing out a printed brochure to customers or clients, a static website will generally provide consistent, standard information for an extended period of time. Although the website owner may make updates periodically, it is a manual process to edit the text, photos, and other content and may require basic website design skills and software. Simple forms or marketing examples of websites, such as
1102-495: Is one that has Web pages stored on the server in the format that is sent to a client Web browser. It is primarily coded in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML); Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to control appearance beyond basic HTML. Images are commonly used to create the desired appearance and as part of the main content. Audio or video might also be considered "static" content if it plays automatically or
1160-522: The Billboard Top 200 charts. World Coming Down featured a much darker, bleak tone than its predecessors, having been written after a series of deaths in frontman Peter Steele 's family. A best of album followed in 2000, entitled The Least Worst of Type O Negative . Although most songs appear on previous albums, many are unreleased remixes or B-sides of previously released singles. Along with these songs are some unreleased numbers from
1218-488: The Web 2.0 community of sites and allow for interactivity between the site owner and site visitors or users. Static sites serve or capture information but do not allow engagement with the audience or users directly. Some websites are informational or produced by enthusiasts or for personal use or entertainment. Many websites do aim to make money using one or more business models, including: Type O Negative Type O Negative
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#17327911364451276-479: The World Coming Down sessions, the band's cover of "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath (Peter Steele's version with different lyrics, written from the perspective of Satan), and a cleaner version of "Hey Pete" (originally released on the mock live album The Origin of the Feces ). Type O Negative's sixth studio album, Life Is Killing Me (originally called The Dream Is Dead after the closing song),
1334-431: The 1922 classic horror film Nosferatu by simply overdubbing the silent film with a soundtrack consisting entirely of Type O Negative tracks, taken from the first four albums. This version is now on DVD from DigiView Entertainment, a company that makes budget-priced DVDs. It also has an introduction by actor David Carradine . In other media, the computer game Descent 2 features a shortened, instrumental version of
1392-475: The 1972 Seals and Crofts hit. " Christian Woman " and " Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) " became the most popular tracks, after having been edited down to radio-friendly lengths (the album versions were 9 and 11 minutes long respectively). In order to promote the album, Type O Negative embarked on a two-year world tour. During this time, the band was featured on MTV , VH1 , and in Rolling Stone . In
1450-468: The Beatles ' "Fab Four" moniker). The band went platinum with 1993's Bloody Kisses , and gold with 1996's October Rust , and gained a fanbase through seven studio albums, two best-of compilations, and concert DVDs. Steele died on April 14, 2010, at the age of 48; some sources report the cause of death as heart failure brought on by an aortic aneurysm , while others list sepsis caused by diverticulitis . Seven months after Steele's death,
1508-634: The CD accompanying the DVD Symphony for the Devil . The 2007 tour song set started with a cover of " Magical Mystery Tour " from the Beatles. " In the Flesh ", originally written by Pink Floyd from their album The Wall , is another song that Type O Negative covered, used to open their 1999 World Tour. This version can be seen on the live DVD Symphony for the Devil . Also on the same DVD, in "Too Late: Frozen",
1566-567: The Cure , Depeche Mode , Devo , and Laibach , as personal influences. In the past, Steele and his bandmates expressed the frontman's appreciation for shoegaze acts Lush and My Bloody Valentine and for synth-pop bands A Flock of Seagulls and Simple Minds . According to Kelly, he and Josh Silver were influenced by grunge bands Alice In Chains and Soundgarden . The band has gone on to influence numerous metal acts including Avenged Sevenfold , Bullet for My Valentine and Trivium ,
1624-503: The album was certified gold in the US, and was the first Type O Negative album to enter the top half of the Billboard Top 200 , debuting at No. 42. With the completion of another successful world tour, writing for a fifth album began. In the period immediately following the release of October Rust , resulting in 1999's World Coming Down (working titles included Prophets of Doom and Aggroculture ). World Coming Down debuted at No. 39 on
1682-501: The article itself. Founder Borivoj Krgin came up with the concept of Blabbermouth in January 2000. Robert Kampf, a friend of Krgin who runs Century Media Records , was staying with Krgin in New York and set up a meeting with Gunter Ford of World Management. During the meeting, Ford suggested an idea for a "heavy metal portal", a site which would offer news, merchandise, and CD reviews to get record labels to sell their products through
1740-419: The band post. He also relies on the contacts he has made over the years ranging from band members, metal journalists, managers, and other people in the music industry, stating this is where the "best" information comes from. Krgin supposedly sends emails and makes telephone calls daily to obtain new information. Blabbermouth.net has a 'submit news' feature which has proved to be helpful to Krgin. When receiving
1798-512: The band's influences, Johnny Kelly has stated, "The common denominators, for certain, were The Beatles and Black Sabbath . Those are the two bands that everybody agreed on. They were favorites. Everybody was into different, various things. Those were the two that there was never an argument when one of their songs was being played." Additionally, Steele cited Deep Purple , Led Zeppelin , Judas Priest , AC/DC , Cocteau Twins , Dead Can Dance , Einstürzende Neubauten , Curve , Duran Duran ,
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1856-410: The constant monotony of album news. In September 2006, Krgin stated he performed a cleanup of Blabbermouth.net ' s comments and adopted a policy whereby users can report offensive comments in order to have them deleted from the site. Prior to this, in his own words, "countless" offensive comments had been posted on the site since the comments feature was implemented in early 2002. Blabbermouth.net
1914-407: The current state of a dialogue between users, monitor a changing situation, or provide information in some way personalized to the requirements of the individual user. For example, when the front page of a news site is requested, the code running on the webserver might combine stored HTML fragments with news stories retrieved from a database or another website via RSS to produce a page that includes
1972-416: The day after the death of Type O Negative frontman Peter Steele on April 15, 2010. As of August 2008, Blabbermouth.net was ranked as the 12,279th-most-trafficked website globally according to Alexa . Prior to its recent change requiring users to log in with a Facebook account in order to post comments, Blabbermouth.net had more 101,000 registered users (users who are registered to post comments on
2030-659: The label, Dead Again , was released in 2007. Dead Again debuted at No. 27 in the United States, the band's highest chart debut to date. They also continued to tour through October of that year, including a performance at the Rock am Ring festival in Germany. On April 14, 2010, frontman and bassist Peter Steele died, reportedly from heart failure . The cause of death was later reported to be sepsis , caused by diverticulitis . The following statement concerning Steele
2088-435: The latest information. Dynamic sites can be interactive by using HTML forms , storing and reading back browser cookies , or by creating a series of pages that reflect the previous history of clicks. Another example of dynamic content is when a retail website with a database of media products allows a user to input a search request, e.g. for the keyword Beatles . In response, the content of the Web page will spontaneously change
2146-767: The latter having covered their single I Don't Wanna Be Me . Type O Negative's songs have appeared in numerous motion pictures, including "Blood and Fire (Out of the Ashes Remix)" on the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack (also on the bonus CD of Life Is Killing Me ), "Love You to Death" in Bride of Chucky , "Everyone I Love Is Dead" in Faust: Love of the Damned , "(We Were) Electrocute" in Freddy vs. Jason , and " Summer Breeze " in I Know What You Did Last Summer . As
2204-518: The logistics together, sure – I would be into that." He also mentioned that Johnny Kelly would enjoy performing for a tribute show, but Josh Silver would more than likely not participate due to his current job as a paramedic. Kelly has also stated that a Type O Negative reunion without Steele would never happen, but believes the latter "deserves some kind of celebration" and did not rule out a tribute show. Type O Negative's musical style has been described as gothic metal and doom metal . Regarding
2262-403: The midst of this media blitz, drummer Sal Abruscato quit the band to join another Brooklyn quartet, Life of Agony . Johnny Kelly , the band's drum technician, was therefore hired as a full-fledged member. Bloody Kisses was re-released a year after the original release in a limited-edition Digipak form, including eight of the musical tracks from the original (omitting the "filler" tracks) and
2320-729: The name Type O Negative. Steele was still tied to the multi-album contract he had made with Roadrunner Records during his time in Carnivore, despite the fact the band had broken up; after receiving a demo from Type O Negative, Roadrunner decided not to drop Steele, and the band signed to the record label in 1991. Shortly after signing, they released their debut, Slow, Deep and Hard . Type O Negative's first album, Slow, Deep and Hard , incorporated dragging Black Sabbath -esque dirge riffs , maniacal hardcore outbursts, and droning industrial and gothic atmospheres. The songs were long, multi-part theatrical epics, with lyrics loosely surrounding
2378-560: The navigation of the site, which often starts with a home page . The most-visited sites are Google , YouTube , and Facebook . All publicly-accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web . There are also private websites that can only be accessed on a private network , such as a company's internal website for its employees. Users can access websites on a range of devices, including desktops , laptops , tablets , and smartphones . The app used on these devices
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2436-506: The previously unreleased "Suspended in Dusk". Type O's October Rust picked up where Bloody Kisses left off, exploring themes of sex, nature and sensuality, first in a humorous sense on the single " My Girlfriend's Girlfriend " and then taken much darker with "Love You to Death". This record also saw a cover of Neil Young 's "Cinnamon Girl" as well as the fan favorite, semi-serene "Green Man". While not quite as successful as Bloody Kisses ,
2494-648: The same year, Monte Conner (a Roadrunner Records A&R and friend of Krgin) approached Krgin with the idea of having the site hosted on the Roadrunner servers. This way, Krgin could focus on Blabbermouth.net ' s content rather than the technical aspects involved in running a site. According to his own words, Krgin spends most of his time operating the site. When finding information relating to bands, Krgin said he searches bands' official websites (including social networking sites), which are usually reported on immediately, and band message boards where members of
2552-769: The site "one of the most influential and most quoted news sites for heavy metal and hard rock". Writing in 2016, MetalSucks founder Axl Rosenburg said that Blabbermouth.net "was basically the news brief section of the (by this point failing) metal magazines, only it was far more detailed, and it gave you the news as it happened, 24/7." Devin Townsend also said that the site "changed the way we do interviews by making us accountable". Blabbermouth.net has been criticized by musicians and music industry persons for internet trolls and for news posts that are unrelated to heavy metal or hard rock. Krgin said he posts these articles to attract humorous comments from users, and as relief from
2610-403: The site) as of August 2011. Website A website (also written as a web site ) is one or more web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server . Websites are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, such as news, education, commerce, entertainment, or social media . Hyperlinking between web pages guides
2668-407: The site. Ford wanted Kampf to be involved. Krgin disliked the idea and wished for a site that offered around-the-clock news, as he thought that no good news sites existed. Krgin began researching how to develop and host his own website two months after the meeting. After a year, he felt comfortable going "live". The initial "primitive" version of the site was launched on March 3, 2001. In October of
2726-502: The song as "probably the greatest song ever written" before apologizing for having "destroyed it". Seals and Crofts ' " Summer Breeze " appears on Bloody Kisses , and Neil Young 's " Cinnamon Girl " appears on October Rust . The tongue-in-cheek "Angry Inch" (from Hedwig and the Angry Inch ) appears on Life is Killing Me . World Coming Down includes a Beatles medley consisting of " Day Tripper ", " If I Needed Someone ", and " I Want You (She's So Heavy) ". Other covers include
2784-612: The standard spelling. All major style guides, such as The Chicago Manual of Style and the AP Stylebook , have reflected this change. In February 2009, Netcraft , an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, reported that there were 215,675,903 websites with domain names and content on them in 2009, compared to just 19,732 websites in August 1995. After reaching 1 billion websites in September 2014,
2842-481: The surviving members of Type O Negative announced that they would not continue as a band. Type O Negative was formed after frontman Peter Steele's previous band, Carnivore , broke up. Steele formed a new band with childhood friends Sal Abruscato, Josh Silver, and Kenny Hickey, which they initially named Repulsion. The band later changed their name to Sub-Zero because another band with the name Repulsion already existed, then changed it again one final time, settling on
2900-571: The track "Haunted". Additionally, Descent 2: The Vertigo Series contains a full-length version of the instrumental; the compilation Duke Nukem: Music to Score By features "Cinnamon Girl (Extended Depression Mix)"; "Love You to Death" in the computer game Blood ; "Out of the Fire" from the Life Is Killing Me bonus CD was a theme created for wrestler Kane , but was never used. The opening two seconds of "I Don't Wanna Be Me" were used as
2958-522: The use of plug-ins. It allows interactive content such as 3D animations, visualizations and video explainers to presented users in the most intuitive way. A 2010-era trend in websites called "responsive design" has given the best viewing experience as it provides a device-based layout for users. These websites change their layout according to the device or mobile platform, thus giving a rich user experience. Websites can be divided into two broad categories—static and interactive. Interactive sites are part of
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#17327911364453016-419: The way it looked before, and will then display a list of Beatles products like CDs, DVDs, and books. Dynamic HTML uses JavaScript code to instruct the Web browser how to interactively modify the page contents. One way to simulate a certain type of dynamic website while avoiding the performance loss of initiating the dynamic engine on a per-user or per-connection basis is to periodically automatically regenerate
3074-420: Was against the idea of continuing the band with a new vocalist, noting, "People have approached us to try and reform the band with a singer and go on the road...We personally don't think Peter is replaceable by anyone and it just wouldn't work." He did, however, mention that he would not be against the idea of some kind of tribute show with guest musicians saying "If somebody had the idea and got it together and got
3132-535: Was an American gothic metal / doom metal band formed in Brooklyn , New York City in 1989 by Peter Steele (bass, lead vocals), Kenny Hickey (guitar, co-lead vocals), Josh Silver (keyboards, backing vocals), and Sal Abruscato (drums, percussion), who was later replaced by Johnny Kelly . Their lyrical emphasis on themes of romance, depression, and death resulted in the nickname "the Drab Four" (in homage to
3190-594: Was released April 15 on the band's official website: It is with great sadness that we inform you that Type O Negative front man, bassist, and our band mate, Peter Steele passed away last night of what appears to be heart failure. Ironically Peter had been enjoying a long period of sobriety and improved health and was imminently due to begin writing and recording new music for our follow up to " Dead Again " released in 2007. The official cause of death has yet to be determined pending autopsy results. The funeral services will be private and memorial services will be announced at
3248-405: Was released in 1993 to critical and listener acclaim, and eventually became the first record for Roadrunner to reach certified gold status in the US. The newfound success brought by the album's release reportedly put a lot of pressure on the band; initially, Peter Steele expressed disinterest in touring nationally. Monte Conner , who at the time was Vice President of A&R at Roadrunner, said in
3306-400: Was released in 2003. For this album, the band picked up the pace of their sound from the dirgeful slowness of World Coming Down . Songs such as "Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)", "(We Were) Electrocute", and "I Don't Wanna Be Me" convey the band's classic elements of melody, though the song lengths were much shorter on this outing, the longest being the 7 and a half-minute "How Could She?",
3364-403: Was visited by more than 1.2 million unique users each month, and it had an average of 80,000 unique visitors per day as of August 2011, according to Google Analytics . The busiest day was 298,000 unique visitors in a single 24-hour period over May 16, 2010, due to the death of Ronnie James Dio . The second-busiest day was more than 200,000 unique visitors in a single 24-hour period, which happened
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