Silver retired from music after Steele’s death and Type O Negative’s subsequent split in 2010, becoming a paramedic. “Josh is just, like, he’s done with music,” says Hickley.

Peter Thomas Ratajczyk, better known in the rock world under his professional name Peter Steele, was born on Jan. 4, 1962.

Late Type O Negative frontman Peter Steele was the king of goth metal, but a run of bad luck and personal circumstances in the 2000s nearly brought him down. In 2007, three years before his death ...