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How is Type O Negative recognized as a pioneer of the genre?
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Type O Negative is recognized as a pioneer of the genre because they were one of the first bands to use "downtuned, fuzzy guitars" and a "deep baritone croon" from Peter Steele, an "intimidatingly large, sarcastically self-deprecating original, whose dry, dirty one-liners and morbid machismo challenge those who insist the archetypal Goth is a po-faced androgyne".