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Kenny Hickey Says TikTok Has Made Type O Negative ‘Bigger Than Ever’

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Type O Negative have been gone for more than 16 years, but Kenny Hickey says the band’s audience is still growing. In a new interview with This Day In Metal, the guitarist said younger listeners discovering the band through TikTok have pushed Type O Negative to a level of popularity he never expected to see after Peter Steele’s death in 2010. “The band’s bigger than ever. It’s bigger than ever,” Hickey said. “My youngest [daughter], she’s 24 no…
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Type O Negative no longer exists since 2010. Peter Steele died, the band stopped with him and no one really tried to resurrect him since. Logically, his popularity should have slowly diminished over the years. Except that he happened exactly the opposite. According to Kenny Hickey, Type O Negative has never been so popular. And a [...]

Even though Type O Negatives have not been around for a long time, according to Kenny Hickey, the band is now more successful than in active times. In 2010, Type O Negative Frontman Peter Steele died of sepsis. That was also the end of the band. This did not stop the success of the New York band – on the contrary. The first two albums SLOW, DEEP AND HARD (1991) and THE ORIGIN OF THE FECES (1992) did not reach the band until 2021, respectively 20…

The guitarist of the iconic Gothic band celebrates how the new generations discover their music, keeping alive the flame of the "Drab Four" more than a decade after its dissolution. Kenny Hickey reflects on the eternal legacy of Type O Negative and its rise in TikTok was first published at Metal Headquarters.

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El Cuartel del Metal | Noticias sobre Heavy Metal y Rock, conciertos, reseñas y más broke the news on Monday, October 5, 2026.
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