Kenny Hickey has said that Type O Negative were offered a large sum for one concert in memory of Peter Steele and turned it down.
Not out of principle. Out of arithmetic. We could not do one show for a lot of money, he told HardLore. It is such a large undertaking. It would have to be a lot of shows for a lot of money.
He then listed the undertaking: getting the band into a room again, working the music back out, building a visual show from nothing, and finding somebody who can sing Peter Steele's parts with taste, never mind play his bass. Steele died in 2010 and nobody has stood in that spot since.
Hickey did not shut the door. Never say never, is how he left it.
He is busy anyway. Silvertomb, the band he runs with Johnny Kelly from the same era, release The Interpretation Of Nightmares on 13 November through SPV, their first in seven years, with Joe James of Agnostic Front and Hank Hell of Sheer Terror in it.