 The trademarks of Type O Negative's music include the use of "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".Type O Negative has since been recognized as a pioneer of the genre.In a review of their 2007 album "Dead Again", critic Greg Prato of Allmusic declared that "before Type O Negative, there was really no such thing as goth metal".