Rarely has a band spent so long trying to dislodge a genre label they’d entirely outgrown. Kittie exploded out of London, Ontario, with 1999 debut Spit: an album which did largely fit into the nu metal zeitgeist of the time. By second album Oracle, though, they’d moved on entirely, giving rein to their more aggressive extreme metal tendencies. The four-piece would continue to experiment and expand through the next decade, but that nu metal tag would still prove hard to shake.
With the band now back in action following a lengthy hiatus with new album Fire, it’s the perfect time to reevaluate Kittie’s highly consistent and often underrated catalogue…
