Metal Anarchy

Type O Negative’s Johnny Kelly has unearthed an unreleased song from the “October Rust” sessions. He says it didn’t make the album, but “to release it as a bonus track on something, it’s worth it.”

Kelly told Loaded Radio the following:

“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.”

He went on to discuss the origin of the cassettes:

“I would go to [keyboardist] Josh [Silver]’s 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.”

He also discussed the possibility of a release:

“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.”

[via Blabbermouth]