Hey Pete

ha.

That had a cover of Jimi Hendrix's Hey Joe, retitled Hey Pete, with new lyrics where the song's narrator is an axe murderer.

Then in 1993, they released this much more melodic album, called Bloody Kisses, and started getting on MTV with a shortened version of the song Black Number One, which is named after goth hair dye and makes fun of scary goth girls.

This helped Bloody Kisses become the first gold-selling album in long-running underground metal label Roadrunner Records' entire history.

Type O Negative liked to make things sound slow and depressing and dirgey was what they were best at, so they hit upon the idea of doing an ironic tongue-in-cheek cover of an unlikely song where they would make it real slow and depressing.

So why not the Seals and Croft soft rock classic Summer Breeze, since Type O Negative's sound is the complete opposite of that title? Originally, they were going to do a tongue-in-cheek rewrite like with Hey Pete, but Seals and Cross denied permission, likely over a verse where a summer girl spreads her legs for Peter Steele, or maybe the verse where Peter Steele steps over his passed-out guitar player's vomit.

So they just straight up covered it instead, which is funnier in the end, because Peter Steele sings it like a suicidal vampire, which makes the part in the chorus where the summer breeze makes him feel fine hilariously ironic, because he sounds like he's never felt fine in his life, and that if he even so much as walked past some blooming jasmine, it would immediately wither and die cartoon style.

Summer Breeze, this cover started a trend where new Type O negative albums would have an unlikely cover too, though never quite as intentionally comedic as this one.