Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
From the band’s personal archives, a previously unreleased Type O Negative song has recently been discovered, as per theprp. The drummer/vocalist for the now-defunct goth metal group, Johnny Kelly, disclosed that he recently discovered that song, which has roots in the 1996 gold-certified album “October Rust.”
I dug up a whole bunch of cassettes recently and I found a lot of stuff — demos. I actually found a song that we never used. I would go to Josh‘s [Silver, Type O Negative keyboardist] 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 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.
What’s the reason it didn’t go into the album then?
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…
This year is the 30th anniversary of ‘October Rust‘, but I don’t know if it’s good policy to have the 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.
