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Billie Eilish has always been vocal about animal rights. The pop star has been a vegan since she was 12, and while promoting her 2024 album Hit Me Hard And Soft she did meatless versions of Hot Ones and Chicken Shop Date. Last week, she said in an interview with Elle that eating meat is “inherently wrong” and that you can’t eat meat and also love animals. She’s been facing backlash, but she’s doubling down.

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Brisbane hard rock outfit TRACE are ready to introduce the world to their music with the release of their explosive debut single Burning Bridges on May 28. With Burning Bridges, Trace have created a masterful song blending the driving elements of rock and heavy music with the lighter elements of sound. The band have bridged […]

WATCH: Exclusive Type O Negative Interview Preview

BROOKLYN, NY — While the existence of a new Type O Negative live album has been common knowledge for months, the “Drab Four” are finally narrowing in on its long-awaited debut. In a revealing new conversation on the Loaded Radio Podcast, surviving members Johnny Kelly and Kenny Hickey confirmed that the project finally has an official title, even as they keep the specific name under lock and key. However, the update on the studio side was met with a stark reality check regarding the stage: a potential tribute to Peter Steele is being stalled by a singular, immovable roadblock.

TL;DR: The Key Takeaways

• Title Secured: Though confirmed months ago, the upcoming Type O Negative live album finally has an official name, with a reveal expected closer to release.
• The “Forbidden” Track: The album includes a cover of The Doors’ “Light My Fire”—a song drummer Johnny Kelly admits he wasn’t happy to see included.
• The Reunion Reality: Kenny Hickey identifies Josh Silver as the sole person preventing a Peter Steele tribute show, despite the band having “begged” him to reconsider.
• The Sunday Drop: The full, deep-dive interview premieres this Sunday evening on the Loaded Radio platforms.

“Light My Fire”: The Rare Performance Johnny Kelly Didn’t Want

With the live album now in the final stages of preparation, the tracklist is beginning to take shape. The most controversial inclusion is a performance of The Doors’ “Light My Fire.” While Kenny Hickey pushed for its inclusion as a rare piece of the band’s history, Johnny Kelly was far from convinced.

“Johnny isn’t too happy about it,” it was noted during the session, highlighting the internal debate that still follows the band’s archival releases. The track represents a rare instance of the band venturing into the catalog of The Doors, a performance that has remained largely unheard until now.

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The Josh Silver Standoff: “He’s Just Not Interested”

For fans hoping to see Hickey and Kelly take the stage for a proper Peter Steele tribute, the news is bittersweet. While the interest from the rest of the band is clear, the narrative surrounding a potential reunion has shifted directly toward keyboardist Josh Silver.

According to the duo, the conversation isn’t for lack of trying. “We have literally sat him down and begged him,” Kenny Hickey revealed, painting a picture of a band ready to honor their fallen brother but held back by a founding member’s firm stance. Despite the emotional weight of the project, Silver reportedly remains “just not interested” in revisiting the stage under the Type O banner.

A Final Plea to the Keyboardist

As the clip concludes, the focus shifts from reporting the news to a direct, heartfelt appeal. The message to Josh Silver is simple: the fans and his bandmates are ready to celebrate the legacy of the Green Man, but the circle cannot be closed without him.

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FAQ: Type O Negative 2026 Updates

When will the live album title be revealed? The band has settled on the name but plans to hold the reveal until the official marketing campaign launches later this summer.

What is the status of a Type O Negative reunion? Currently, it is at a standstill. While Johnny Kelly and Kenny Hickey are open to a tribute, Josh Silver has declined multiple personal invitations to participate.

Is the Doors cover a studio recording? No, this is a live recording of “Light My Fire,” which will be featured on the upcoming archival live release.

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Band Bio: Type O Negative

Hailing from Brooklyn, Type O Negative became the definitive architects of gothic metal. Fronted by the late Peter Steele, the band delivered a somber, satirical, and deeply heavy discography that includes classics like Bloody Kisses and World Coming Down. Since Steele’s passing in 2010, the surviving members have maintained a strictly “no reunion” policy out of respect, though the pressure for a one-off tribute continues to mount.

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Social Distortion have today released their long-awaited eighth album, Born To Kill, via Epitaph Records. The legendary SOCAL band have also dropped the lyric video for the track The Way Things Were. An emotionally charged reminiscence in the vein of classics Story of My Life and I Was Wrong, The Way Things Were is a […]

Dear ghost, you wanna be near me
In the dark, call your name
We’re at peace, in the rain

A hand reaches out in the half-light, and the whole world seems to soften around it. On “Juniper,” Philadelphia multi-instrumentalist Angel Ocaña, recording as Forest Circles, turns a fleeting romance into something spectral, devotional, and beautifully uncertain: a subway ride to someone’s apartment, a pair of eyes held a second too long, a dance inside a cloud before reality starts to blur at the edges.

The spellbinding new single continues to showcase Ocaña’s talent for dream-pop and shoegaze, capturing a sound that feels both intimate and wide open. Forest Circles has long moved through a tender fog of dream-laced atmosphere, swelling guitars, and soft-focus longing, with previous releases such as “Libras” and “Holy Again” tracing a path between bedroom vulnerability and starry-eyed grandeur. “Juniper” deepens that world with a sigh of synth pads, soft drums, and tender vocals that curl close to the ear, purring with bittersweet romance. The guitars glimmer like something pulled from The Cure’s Lost Wishes EP: delicate, glassy, full of ache, and always just out of reach.

Lyrically, “Juniper” feels suspended between touch and apparition. Ocaña sings of taking a hand “like you mean it,” watching the world spin, and asking the oldest, most dangerous question: is this love? The song’s central figure becomes flesh, bone, plant, perfume, and ghost all at once — someone near enough to kiss, distant enough to haunt, and fragile enough to vanish when the spell breaks. Lines about rain, darkness, and “the notches of my spine” give the song a physical tenderness, as if memory itself were learning where to place its fingers.

The video for “Juniper” mirrors that suspended state in a wash of violet and black. Bodies appear as silhouettes, faces slip in and out of grain, and hands drift through the frame like messages from a dream half-remembered at dawn. Abstract streaks of purple light bend into waves, vertical bars glow like subway signals or distant windows, and microscopic textures bloom across the screen like pollen, rain, or cells seen under a haunted lens. Elsewhere, pale flowers emerge against the dark, liquid ripples across a surface, circular patterns suggest surveillance or hypnosis, and ritual objects appear from above: candles, a bowl, scattered leaves, and hands moving with quiet intent. It is a love song filmed like a séance, where romance, memory, and disappearance keep touching the same bruise.

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Fresh from the wastelands.

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Last month several artists on Australia’s fastest growing rock label, XMusic, came together under the name Project X to record their own version of one of the most powerful songs of the early 90’s, Temple of the Dog‘s immortal, Hunger Strike. In time for Mother’s Day Project X have reunited for a heartfelt rendition of […]

Free from its digital prison.

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‘Die With Me” is about staring death in the face and not backing down.

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