![]() ![]() ![]() Kind of like to tip our hats off to the great musicians that came here before us Larissa: I really wanted to do a decent tribute because there’s a couple covers out there that I really wanted to create something that did it justice – for us. What made you finally decide to actually cover the songs? Larissa: Yeah and then I started diving into their other stuff, like “Black #1” and “My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend.” There’s so much of a story there and this kind of comedic writing style. I guess that song made you go back and rediscover the band? Was he still alive when you first heard him or had he already passed? And I was like, ‘hey this is kinda cool,’ cause I was a little bit skeptical, you know and then his voice comes in and it’s just like this crazy, powerful, force. Larissa: I remember a friend passing along the song “I Don’t Wanna Be Me” and they were like “here, you gotta listen to this!” Cause you know, we were kind of young when they were in their heyday so we discovered it later on. Tell me about any early memories of Type O and you guys Obviously Type O Negative was an influence of yours. Kyle: There was a lot of the typical band drama that we realized we kind of don’t need to put up with. Larissa: We did have a drummer and bassist back in the day and then it became just the two of us. We had other people in the band who started out and then about a year and half ago, we kind of just lost a lot of weight and went with the two of us. Kyle: We’ve been calling ourselves Black Satellite for a while. How long have you been calling yourselves Black Satellite? Like I said, we were just writing things in our bedroom and you know we played a couple shows but we didn’t really have this iteration of Black Satellite until about a half a year ago. Then we just picked up and moved to New York and kind of dived headfirst into this whole thing and started doing it at a professional level. Larissa: So we actually met in high school in a music class when we were 17 and we were just writing music together for a really long time and went through college. I’ll start out by asking a little bit about the band and its formation The two put their own take on the band’s “My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend” and “I Don’t Wanna Be Me.” We spoke to singer Larissa Vale and guitarist Kyle Hawken to discuss the reasoning behind this pair of covers. New York by way of Pennsylvania duo Black Satellite are carrying on the dark, gothic legacy of the band, and while they’re more in the veins of Nine Inch Nails, or perhaps Garbage, the two pay tribute to Type O via a pair of covers they released as a follow-up to last year’s debut album, Endless. As big of a hole as his passing left in the landscape of heavy music, the band’s legacy continues on. Tomorrow (14) will be the 8th anniversary of the passing of Type O Negative frontman Peter Steele.
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