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Drummer extraordinaire and punk/power pop solo artist Gene Champagne is back with a new mini-album (or maxi-EP) titled Too Pop For Punk…Too Punk To Care. The title sums up what this guy is all about. Punk rockers writing pop songs has always been a sweet spot for me, and these tunes hit the mark just right. Half the record is comprised of previously released digital singles (the double A-side wham-bam of “Gimme Ammunition” and “She’s an Atom Bomb” along with covers of The Barracudas’ “I Can’t Pretend” and The Ohio Express’s “Yummy Yummy”). Too Pop For Punk… adds four new tracks for a proper long extended play experience. The best of the new tunes, “Friends Like These,” is vintage Gene Champagne: punchy, crunchy punk-pop that serves up hooks a plenty and hits with authority. “Sweet Little Lies” is a mid-tempo number that puts the power in power pop. “Beach Boy Wannabe” has great fun living up to its title. “I’m Disconnected” caps things off in a decidedly different direction with some tough & gritty ’70s-style punk fury. All in all, this is a terrific little album from the Teenage Head/Killjoys/Black Halos drummer, and it’s available on white vinyl while supplies last!

This week’s Kenny Hickey interview on The Loaded Radio Podcast is the whole conversation, not the six minutes you’ve already seen. The Type O Negative guitarist has three bands’ worth of news in him right now: a live album that’s almost mixed and an unreleased Peter Steele song that will come out; a Silvertomb record, the first in seven years, arriving in November; and Sun Don’t Shine, the band he and Johnny Kelly built with Crowbar’s Kirk Windstein and Todd Strange, with a debut album already out. He gets to all of it. Then he gets to the stories we didn’t put on video.

Hit play below. If you’d rather read first, here’s what’s on the tape.

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Type O Negative: The Live Album, ‘Prometheus’ And The Rest

The Type O Negative portion is the news half of the episode, and most of it has already traveled: the live album is nearly edited, Mike Marciano is mixing it, and the target is the first quarter of 2027.

Hickey lays it out plainly. ‘I’m almost done editing everything,’ he says, and the tapes are going to Marciano, ‘who was the original mixer for Type O Negative’. The band sent him ‘Love You To Death’ as a trial run and liked what came back. The reason you won’t hear it this year is pressing plants: ‘You’ve got to put in for the vinyl, and making the vinyl takes months.’ When Loaded Radio first broke the live album there was no mixer and no window. Now there are both. The title is still his to keep.

Then ‘Prometheus’, the Peter Steele song Johnny Kelly found on a cassette and told us about earlier this year. Hickey loves it and doesn’t remember playing on it. ‘We’re going to release it at some point, some format, on whatever reissues we do.’ From there the conversation moves through October Rust at 30, Josh Silver (still a paramedic, still off limits, by his own request), the reunion ‘nudges’ that keep arriving without money attached, and World Coming Down, the record Hickey calls ‘one of the most honest ones’.

That last stretch is the part we put on video, with Hickey explaining what Peter Steele was carrying when the band made it. The Type O Negative update, in full, is here. On the podcast you get it in context, with the questions and the pauses, and then you get everything that came after.

Silvertomb: ‘The Interpretation Of Nightmares’, November 13

Silvertomb’s second album is out November 13 on Steamhammer, seven years after Edge Of Existence, and this is Hickey’s first long conversation about it.

The lineup is the one that’s been there since the start: Hickey on vocals and guitar, Johnny Kelly on drums, Joe James of Agnostic Front on guitar, Hank Hell of Sheer Terror on bass, and Aaron Joos on guitar, keys and vocals. Eight songs, from ‘Brain Matter / No God’ to ‘When Will You Learn?’, with ‘No Way To Live’ as the first single and ‘Graves In The Sky’ the second, a song Hickey wrote on acoustic guitar and piano rather than electric. Everything we know about the record, including the full tracklist, is already on the site.

What the album page can’t tell you is what the seven years were. Silvertomb had a tour with Monster Magnet booked before the pandemic that never happened, and the band went quiet for the better part of four years. Hickey is asked what the gap was, what changed when the five of them got back in a room, and why a man with two other bands in motion came back to this one first. He’s also asked the question every Type O fan asks about Silvertomb, which is how much of Brooklyn is allowed in, and whether ‘Graves In The Sky’ is the closest he’s come to answering it.

Sun Don’t Shine: Hickey, Windstein, Kelly And Strange

Sun Don’t Shine is the band that used to be called Eye Am: Kenny Hickey and Johnny Kelly from Type O Negative, Kirk Windstein and Todd Strange from Crowbar and Down. The debut album, From Birth To Death, is out now on Corpse Paint Records.

On paper it’s a Brooklyn-meets-New Orleans sludge summit. On record it’s broader than that, with Hickey singing more than he’s been asked to sing since Seventh Void and Windstein’s riffs sitting under actual melodies. The singles tell the story in order: ‘Coming Down’, ‘Dreams Always Die With The Sun’, ‘Cryptomnesia’, ‘The Promise Song’, then ‘In The End’, the one that convinced the label. Duane Simoneaux produced it with Vinnie LaBella of Exhorder co-producing, which is as New Orleans as a credits list gets.

Hickey is asked the practical question: with Silvertomb in November and the Type O live album in the new year, which of his three bands gets 2027. His answer is a scheduling problem most musicians would kill for.

The Stories We Kept Off Video

The back half of the tape is where Hickey stops giving updates and starts telling stories, and we’ve kept most of it for the podcast on purpose.

Without spoiling it: there’s a conversation about which Type O Negative albums he’d put at the top and the bottom, and why Life Is Killing Me sits where it does for him, which you can set against where the fans put them. There’s the reason Type O Negative wouldn’t play new songs live before a record came out, which is a Peter Steele story as much as a band policy. There’s Pantera and Dimebag, Seventh Void, and the thread that runs from those years to Sun Don’t Shine. And there are a couple of people from the band’s early days whose names don’t usually come up in these interviews.

Some of that will be a second video in a few days. All of it is on the episode now. If you want the Peter Steele context before you press play, thirteen things about Peter is the quickest way in.

Kenny Hickey On The Loaded Radio Podcast

This is Hickey’s second visit to the show this year, and has had many over the years.

In May, Kenny and Johnny Kelly came on together and first mentioned the cassette, the October Rust anniversary and the possibility of tribute shows with guest singers. Five months on, the cassette has a title, the live album has a mixer and both of his other bands have records. Put the two episodes back to back and you can hear a year happen.

New episodes of The Loaded Radio Podcast land every week on the free Loaded Radio app for Apple iOS and Google Play, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and everywhere else. If this one’s your first, start with the Johnny Kelly episode next; the two conversations answer each other.

TL;DR

• The full Kenny Hickey interview is on The Loaded Radio Podcast now: Type O Negative, Silvertomb and Sun Don’t Shine, plus the stories the video left out.
• Type O Negative: the live album is nearly edited, Mike Marciano is mixing it, target first quarter of 2027; ‘Prometheus’ will be released ‘at some point, some format’; Josh Silver stays private; reunion nudges keep coming, none with money.
• Silvertomb’s The Interpretation Of Nightmares is out November 13 on Steamhammer, the first album in seven years; singles ‘No Way To Live’ and ‘Graves In The Sky’.
• Sun Don’t Shine (Hickey, Johnny Kelly, Kirk Windstein, Todd Strange) have their debut From Birth To Death out now on Corpse Paint Records.
• Listen on the free Loaded Radio app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all podcast platforms.

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