Kittie frontwoman Morgan Lander has shared a teaser for new project Winterlvst, tentatively due this summer. Check out the teaser below. The band also features Justine ‘Juice’ Ethier (drummer) of Blackguard and Jonathan Lefrancois-Leduc, formerly of Blackguard on keyboards. Kittie released a concert film titled Kittie: Live At The London Music Hall in March 2019. It features footage of the Canadian metal band’s October 27, 2017 20th-anniversary hometown show at the London Music Hall in London, Ontario. The event, which also served as a screening of the long-in-the-making documentary Kittie: Origins/Evolutions, lead to Kittie mainstays Morgan Lander (guitar, vocals) and Mercedes Lander (drums) take the stage with a number of their former bandmates to perform songs from the group’s entire repertoire. Morgan is also a member of Quebec metal band Karkaos, who are working on a new album due this year. Continue reading
Sweden’s melodic death metal ambassadors Soilwork embarked on an ambitious multi-month long tour spanning across these United States. Along for the ride were Hatchet, Bonded By Blood, Canada’s Blackguard and Jeff Loomis and his solo band. By the time this tour reached Teaneck, New Jersey, Bonded by Blood had to drop off due to their van dying. Hatchet opened the show and put on a very old school thrash performance with some modern swing to it.
Soilwork took the stage and hammered out sixteen of their best songs. They opened up with new track ‘Parasite Blues’ and continued to play career spanning cuts from all nine of their albums. Guitarists David Andersson and Sylvain Coudret form a powerful team. They work extremely well together no matter if they’re playing new songs, or older material. They sound like they’ve been in the band forever. Keyboardist Sven Karlsson blended his unique sound on classic songs like ‘Overload’ and ‘Follow The Hollow’. Dirk did what Dirk does: just wowed anyone who’s watching. He makes all the insane things he does look effortless. Ola Fink somehow was able to cut through all that wall of sound, and bring the low end. Vocal powerhouse Bjorn “Speed” Strid sounded the best I’ve ever heard him. Be it newer songs like ‘This Momentary Bliss’ or throwback tracks like ‘Possessing The Angels’, he damn near sounded identical to the albums. After a tour this long, there also seems to be no wear on his pipes. Maybe it’s all that Swedish living, who knows? He came to perform and he showed you he is at the top of his game. Over all it was a great night of varied styles of metal. Well worth the trek to New Jersey.