2024 may very well be remembered as the year of comebacks in Modern Metal! So many bands have returned from retirement or hiatus, and few bring the fire, with the proverbial smoke of hype. One eagerly-awaited return band is Kittie, which started its comet-like return at fests such as Sick New World (interview here) and Blue Ridge Rock Fest (RIP)! The band returns with Fire – their first new album in thirteen years and first for Sumerian Records, who scored a coup signing the veteran band. Continue reading
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Kittie’s Morgan Lander Teases Winterlvst Project
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
Blackguard Shares New Single, “By My Hand”, Featuring Morgan Lander of Kittie
As Ghost Cult previously broke the news, Blackguard is back! The much-missed Canadian Melodic Death Metal band is releasing their new album Storm, and booking new shows! Now you can hear their first new single ‘By My Hand’, featuring their ally Morgan Lander of Kittie! The band has shared a visualizer for the track on their Facebook, which you can watch below!Continue reading
Kittie To Release New Concert Movie “Kittie: Live At The London Music Hall”
Kittie is releasing a new concert movie Kittie: Live At The London Music Hall, on March 26th. The film recounts October 27, 2017, 20th-anniversary hometown show at the London Music Hall in London, Ontario. Pre-orders are live at this link. The event, which also served as a screening of the long-in-the-making documentary Kittie: Origins/Evolutions. Kittie founders Morgan Lander (guitar, vocals) and Mercedes Lander (drums) take the stage with many of their former bandmates to perform songs from the group’s entire repertoire. The last song of the night, ‘Funeral For Yesterday’, was played unplugged and dedicated former bassist Trish Doan, who died earlier in 2017. Watch the trailer now.Continue reading
Kittie Reunites For a Career Spanning Show, New Documentary Screened
Canadian metal band Kittie recently played their first show in four years in London Music Hall in London, ON to screen their long in the making documentary Kittie: Origins/Evolutions. Members from across every incarnation of the band joined to perform songs from their entire repertoire. Continue reading
Demon Lung – The Hundreth Name
The bright lights of Las Vegas, Nevada have spawned a dark debut in The Hundredth Name by doom quartet Demon Lung. (And I just have to say, if Demon Lung isn’t the coolest fucking band name you’ve heard in a coon’s age, I don’t know what is.) The Hundredth Name is a concept album based on the film Warlock. Specifically the story follows the Son of Satan reassembling the Devil’s Bible, thus allowing the name of God to be spoken in reverse, undoing creation. Heavy stuff.Continue reading