On July 21, 2009,
SEVENTH VOID — the new band featuring
TYPE O NEGATIVE guitarist
Kenny Hickey and drummer
Johnny Kelly — was interviewed on Santa Rosa, California's
101.7 The Fox radio station inside the "Less Is More Lounge." Watch the seven-minute chat below.
SEVENTH VOID's debut album,
"Heaven Is Gone", sold around 1,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to
Nielsen SoundScan. The CD debuted at No. 21 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
"Heaven Is Gone" was released on April 21 via
Vinnie Paul's (
PANTERA,
HELLYEAH)
Big Vin Records.
"We sent [
Vinnie] one song,"
Hickey told
DallasObserver.com, "and he really liked it. So we never really took it anywhere else. We wanted someone who believed in it. And
Vinnie does."
"From the moment I first heard them, I full-on loved it,"
Vinnie said. "It's a new band, but when other people hear it, they'll know too. It's just an old-school sound with a new attitude. Something different than all the
LINKIN PARKs and
HOLLYWOOD UNDEADs out there right now."
Rounded out by bassist
Hank Hell (
INHUMAN) and guitarist
Matt Brown (ex-
SUPERMASSIV),
SEVENTH VOID continues
TYPE O's tradition of slow, heavy riffs and existential lyrics, but with a slightly sludgier, "stonier" flavor.
For more information, visit the band's
MySpace page.
