Kittie release Oracle XXV on 13 November, a full re-recording of the album they made in 2001.
The original came out on 12 November 2001 through Artemis Records, tracked that July and August at EMAC Recording Studios with Garth Richardson producing. They made it as a trio: Fallon Bowman had left, touring guitarist Jeff Phillips filled the gap, and it remains the only Kittie record with Talena Atfield on bass, who was gone four months after it came out. It opened at number fifty seven on the Billboard 200 with thirty three thousand copies in a week, which in 2001 was a band on the way up.
Doing it again is becoming a habit. Spit XXV was last year, this is the second, and the sequence suggests the first three records all get the treatment eventually.
The band have had a year to earn it. Fire in 2024 was their first new music in thirteen years, reached number thirteen on the British rock and metal chart and brought a Juno nomination, and the sixteen date Legacy Of Fire run this autumn was their first North American headline tour in over a decade. Morgan and Mercedes Lander have been at this since 1996.