I dunno where the drums and organs come from, but I assume they’re synthesized. He records himself playing each instrument and singing and edits the video in such a way that he is a true one-man band. He has clearly studied the band’s style to such a degree that he truly captures what Type O would do with these songs. Here’s what you get when you watch Denis Pauna’s video: a young Lemmy Kilmister-looking guy playing bass, playing guitar, singing vocals that are a near perfect match of Peter Steele’s. This has to be a cover made in heaven, right? So a little about me… there are only four Pearl Jam songs I can tolerate, all of which come from their debut album Ten and my favorite one of all is “Black.” Contrariwse, I love everything that Type O Negative did. This evening I finally made some time to listen to a specific playlist of his, the theme of which is what drew me to his channel in the first place.Ī video titled “What If Type O Negative Wrote BLACK (Pearl Jam)” with a thumbnail of Eddie Vedder stitched next to Peter Steele showed up as a recommendation on YouTube at the end of last week. Needless to say I’ve been immersing myself in my natural habitat over the past couple of weeks and in doing so, discovered an amazing musician on YouTube.

Distance makes the heart go fonder, amirite? But literally Easter Monday, I was ready to trade in the cute and pastel for the dark and creepy-as if I’d been in some sort of alternate reality and found myself back where I belonged. It’s weird, I feel like I took a Halloween hiatus out of respect for Easter and I didn’t even mean to, it just happened. Life has been busy for the past 30 days, and I am so excited to get back to bloggin’.

Type o negative covers