Kenny Hickey unveils a teaser of the upcoming live album by Type O Negative

A preview of the long-defunct band’s future full-length concert CD has been released by Kenny Hickey of Type O Negative, as per Blabbermouth. Check it out below. Hickey informed Cassius Morris about the forthcoming Type O Negative live album earlier this week.

It’s in the works right now, so it might take a month or whatever to get it together. And then it will probably be at least a couple of months after that before it’s released. Hopefully [it will be out] by the end of the year.

Following the dissolution of frontman Peter Steele’s prior band, Carnivore, Type O Negative was established. Together with Josh Silver, Kenny Hickey, and Sal Abruscato, Steele started a new band called Repulsion. Due to the existence of another band with the name Repulsion, the band later changed their name to Sub-Zero. They then made one last name change before deciding on Type O Negative. Even though the band had broken up, Steele was still bound by the multi-album deal he had signed with Roadrunner Records while he was in Carnivore. The band signed with the label in 1991 after Roadrunner decided not to dump Steele after hearing a tape from Type O Negative. “Slow, Deep and Hard”, their debut album, was released shortly after they signed.

The album included droning industrial and gothic atmospheres, frenzied hardcore outbursts, and dragging dirge riffs reminiscent of Black Sabbath. The lengthy songs’ lyrics vaguely told a tale of a man exacting revenge on an unfaithful partner before reflecting on his actions and taking his own life. They started working on a new record with the intention of releasing it live. “The Origin of the Feces” was the title of the subsequent 1992 album, which had the cautionary label “Not Live at Brighton Beach” on its cover. Along with previously unreleased songs like “Are You Afraid” and “Hey Pete” (a rendition of Jimi Hendrix‘s “Hey Joe” with modified lyrics) and Black Sabbath‘s “Paranoid,” the CD has faux-live recordings of songs from “Slow, Deep, and Hard”.