Kittie have started dropping hints that a new full-length may be coming.
The band have posted some updates to their social media over the past few days, with fans feverishly anticipating fresh music from the late 90s/early '00s Canadian metal sensations.
The first move of note came back in 2023 when the band performed the new song Vultures at the Sick New World Festival. The band also let it be known in November that they were in the studio working on material with producer Nick Raskulinecz at Sienna Studios. The studio posted a photo of the band and Raskulinecz with the caption "Amazing to have @officialkittie and @officialnickraskulinecz with us working on a new album. It's gonna crush!"
Those posts were followed over the weekend by the band sharing a new official photo on their Facebook and posting two cryptic reels on their official Instagram.
The first reel shows a heartbeat and a chair with the words "coming soon", while the second strongly teases that new music may be about to land on Wednesday, February 14, which is of course, Valentine's Day. The second reel consists of that same chair, some faces and snippets of audio of what sounds like an unreleased Kittie song, with the caption 'February 14th". You can see both reels below.
If the teases do turn out to be a new album announcement, it will mark the first full-length release from Kittie since 2011's I've Failed You while a new song would also be noteworthy with the last new material from the band being the 2015 single Space Oddity.
The current lineup of the band consists of sisters and band founders Morgan (vocals, guitar, piano) and Mercedes Lander (drums, vocals), alongside Tara McLeod (guitar) and Ivana "Ivy" Jenkins (bass). The band reunited in 2022, ending an indefinite hiatus, the impetus for which was seemingly the unexpected passing of bass player Trish Doan, with the Lander sisters revealing that they found it difficult to move forward with the band without Doan. Kittie did perform a one-off hometown celebratory gig in October 2017 which featured three sets of songs drawn from across different eras of the band, incorporating 'one night only' returns from former members Tanya Candler (bass/vocals), Fallon Bowman (guitar vocals), Jeff Phillips (guitar/vocals/bass) and Jennifer Arroyo (bass) who all performed songs from their respective eras in the band. That show was held to coincide with the release of their 20th anniversary documentary and the recordings from the night were released as Origins/Evolution Live in 2018.
New material from the band could not be better timed, with everything late '90s/early '00s nu-metal very much all the rage with a new generation of heavy music fans. One of the most notable of those fans, Poppy released a cover of Kittie's iconic 1999 single Spit.
Poppy expertly channels Spit's rage, spitting with pure venom, while making shifts to the instrumentation and production that make it sound quintessentially Poppy. The menacing take Spit was released via Sumerian Records and arrived accompanied by a video directed by Jim Louvau and Tony Aguilera. You can watch the video in all its glitched-out glory below.
Compare it to the Kittie original below.
Spit is the title track from Kittie's breakthrough debut album.
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