“Morgan has the actives, and I use Grandpa’s guitar. That defines Kittie’s tone”: The nine lives of Morgan Lander and Tara McLeod – and how swapping ’00s-era Hamers for a Solar V helped supercharge their revival

Kittie's Morgan Lander and Tara McLeod.

As you’d hope from something called Fire, Kittie’s first album in 13 years is incendiary. The Canadian metal quartet’s unflinchingly heavy return, however, wasn’t an inevitability.

Guitarists Morgan Lander and Tara McLeod explain that making new music was “not on their bingo card” when the band regrouped in 2022 for a few festival appearances, preferring to think of the sets as more of a “final lap” than a new beginning.