TYPE O NEGATIVE Live Album To Arrive In Early 2027: 'I'm Almost Done Editing Everything', Says KENNY HICKEY

In a new interview with Scott Penfold of Loaded Radio, TYPE O NEGATIVE guitarist Kenny Hickey was asked about the status of the upcoming full-length concert recording from the long-defunct band. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I'm almost done editing everything, getting everything compiled together and simplified. And right now we're going to give it to... Well, it looks like we're going to give it to Mike Marciano, who was the original mixer for TYPE O NEGATIVE all those years. So, he's got a studio he built in his house in Pennsylvania. We sent him 'Love You To Death'. He mixed it. It sounded great. So, we're gonna be moving forward with that. But I'm gonna give him all the stuff all ready to mix, you know what I mean? I can't give him a mess. So that's just about done anyhow. And so hopefully we're looking at first quarter next year [for it to be released]. Because you can't just release it when it's done, obviously. You need three months [to set it up properly]… You gotta put in for the vinyl. We're making the vinyl. That stuff, it takes months."

Kenny also talked about plans to put out a previously unreleased song from the songwriting sessions for TYPE O NEGATIVE's fourth studio album, 1996's "October Rust". The track came from a cassette that was recently unearthed by TYPE O NEGATIVE drummer Johnny Kelly.

"'Prometheus', I think it was called," Kenny said about the song. "It's something 'Prometheus'. Yeah, I think it's just 'Prometheus'. I have it in my phone. I love it. And I don't remember it at all. [Laughs] It was a long time ago. I remember some of the parts, but it's really cool. Yeah, of course we're gonna release it at some point, in some format, in one of whatever reissues we do."

Asked if "Prometheus" was one of late TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele's "magnum opuses" or if it was it "more of a shorter, 'I Don't Wanna Be Me' kind of thing", Kenny said: "Mm, it's kind of a medium opus. But it was in the works, so all of [Peter's] stuff would start medium and then just grow. I'm sure if it ended up being on the record, it probably would've been a lot longer, a lot bigger."

This past April, >, Kelly told Loaded Radio about the origin of the cassette containing the unreleased TYPE O NEGATIVE song: "I would go to [TYPE O NEGATIVE keyboardist] Josh's [Silver] house when we were working on the records. I would always go home — say, after the day, we were working on a song. This was back when cassettes [laughs] were being used. CDs really weren't standard yet as far as in the studio for refs and stuff like that. So I have a bunch of ref[erence] cassettes from demos that we did and stuff. And then I was just listening to them, and I came across the song. Part of it wound up getting cannibalized. Parts of the song wound up on other songs, on 'Life Is Killing Me' and stuff like that. But it's a complete song."

As for the possibility of the song in question being made available in the not-too-distant future, Johnny said: "At the time, the song wasn't strong enough to be on 'October Rust'. And if we were releasing 'October Rust' today, it still wouldn't make the record… But 30 years later, to release it as a bonus track on something, it's worth it — it's worth it for that. Now, if we can get a good transfer from a cassette and actually get a good mastering out of it and make it sound good…"

He added: "This year is the 30th anniversary of 'October Rust', but I don't know if it's good policy to have the [previously announced TYPE O NEGATIVE] live record coming out this year and a box set for 'October Rust'. Maybe. I don't know. We'll have to see. But right now I'm just going through the cassettes and seeing what I have."

TYPE O NEGATIVE effectively broke up after the passing of frontman Peter Steele in April 2010 from heart failure at the age of 48. Born Petrus T. Ratajczyk on January 4, 1962 in Brooklyn, New York, he stood 6' 7" (201 cm) tall, and had a low, bass-heavy voice, which was one of the most recognizable features in TYPE O NEGATIVE's music.

Before forming TYPE O NEGATIVE, Steele played for the metal group FALLOUT and the thrash band CARNIVORE.

TYPE O NEGATIVE, known for its brooding soundscapes and cult status in the 1990s and early 2000s, has recently seen a cultural resurgence as new generations discover the band's genre-defining music.

TYPE O NEGATIVE was a New York–based goth metal band formed in 1990 by Steele, alongside Silver, guitarist Kenny Hickey and drummer Sal Abruscato — later replaced by Kelly. Their 1991 debut, "Slow, Deep And Hard", introduced their brooding style, followed by the provocative "The Origin Of The Feces" (1992). TYPE O NEGATIVE achieved breakthrough success with "Bloody Kisses" (1993),which earned a cult following and featured the single "Black No. 1". The band continued to evolve with albums such as "October Rust" (1996),"World Coming Down" (1999),"Life Is Killing Me" (2003) and "Dead Again" (2007).

Revered for their distinctive blend of goth and metal, as well as Steele's deep, iconic vocals, TYPE O NEGATIVE left a lasting legacy in heavy music. The band concluded in 2010 following Steele's death, but their influence endures across the alternative and metal landscape.