Awhile back, Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward was working on a new collaborative track with Type O Negative’s Johnny Kelly, Kenny Hickey, and Josh Silver. However, the song has yet to surface. As such, Kelly was recently asked about the single during a chat with Mark Strigl. According to him, Ward is currently planning to complete the track in the near future.
Kelly said the following:
“I wanna say at this point, maybe it was eight years ago, something like that. The foundation of it is, at the time, when Peter [Steele] had passed away, Bill had written a song in tribute to Peter. And he wanted to get the rest of us to play on it — Kenny, Josh and myself. So Kenny and I went out to California. We did the drum tracks, did the guitar tracks for it. I think Kenny’s singing on it a little bit. I think [Jason “Dewey” Bragg] may be singing on [the song], ’cause through that friendship of Bill and I, Dewey became friends with Bill Ward, and then Bill would have Dewey sing a lot of the stuff. Bill’s always working on music, so he’s always writing and recording and stuff like that. And he grabbed Dewey. So we did the song. Josh actually did a keyboard track on it and stuff. He didn’t go to California; he did it in New York. And that was it. We recorded the song, and for a long time I wasn’t really sure what’s going on or whatever. But the last time I spoke to Bill, he was talking about getting the song finished… That was this year. It was after [the] ‘Back To The Beginning’ [concert in early July]. He said that he was gonna start working on that and get it wrapped up.”
He continued when asked if the song is heavy:
“Uh, yes, it’s heavy, melancholy. I’m trying to remember it. It was eight years ago. [Laughs] As it was happening, I was just like… Bill Ward was my hero growing up, so to sort of become friends with him… And now I’m in a room recording with him. And I was just in awe of the whole experience. So I’m sitting there on the kit, and Bill is in front of me like a maestro, pointing, telling me where to go and what to [play]. I’m just, like, ‘Deep breath.’”
Kelly also added the following after Strigl expressed interest in hearing the song:
“I wanna hear it too. And it’s cool in the sense where you have the three surviving members of TYPE O actually playing music together, which is cool in itself to me. And then, throw on top of it, you’re working with people from BLACK SABBATH — like, O.G. BLACK SABBATH. So it’s pretty cool in that sense. But, yeah, hopefully it comes out soon. I guess we’ll all know when it comes out.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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