Pete Steele Dead @ age 48

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/04/15/peter-steele-dead-type-o-negative-in-movies/

I hope he will always have a date at midnight.... with Nosferatu.

Oh damn.  One of my few "brush with celebrity" stories is when Peter Steele threw a beer at me and flipped me off at Proud Mary's in Shreveport when I yelled "You fucking suck, get off the stage, asshole!" 

They did suck that night. They were either too drunk or too stoned and they sounded like shit.  Drain STH was there to save the day, though, so it was all good.

I heard they were hit-or-miss live ...

I saw them around 8 times live.

I think the shows were always enjoyable, except the last tour I saw where Peter was definitely not looking good and going back to sit on the drum platform.  Even when they were off, the banter was usually pretty funny and the tension in the band would be obvious enough that it was interesting to see them interact.