Throughout their look at this previous weekend’s Aftershock Pageant, Kittie drummer Mercedes Lander and guitarist and vocalist Morgan Lander sat down with San Francisco’s 107.7 The Bone to debate the band’s 2022 reunion, the success of their comeback album Hearth, and what lies forward.
Mercedes revealed that the reunion started virtually by accident after persistent outreach from Reside Nation, explaining: “We couldn’t ignore the e-mails from Reside Nation in our inbox any longer… I keep in mind writing Morgan and being like, ‘Hey, we should always in all probability reply again to this man, ‘trigger he is written us a minimum of 3 times.'”
Morgan added that the groundswell of fan assist additionally performed a vital position: “It wasn’t simply that — it was that extra folks have been listening. Spotify numbers have been rising, and other people simply asking for brand new music. The voices simply continued to get louder and louder.”
Initially planning solely a handful of competition dates, Kittie quickly discovered themselves with new alternatives — together with a document cope with Sumerian Data, which led to Hearth, their first studio album in over a decade.
Mercedes recalled how the momentum took over: “Our plan was simply to play a few exhibits after which be like, ‘Okay, bye.’ … After which that morphed into us getting a proposal for a document deal, after which getting to jot down new music. … We started working with the dream workforce — Nick Raskulinecz and Josh Wilbur.”
When requested concerning the band’s subsequent chapter, Morgan confirmed that Aftershock marked their remaining efficiency of the yr, however hinted at extra exercise in 2026. Which is not stunning, contemplating the band’s angle towards extra new music. “We get to go residence and calm down. We have got just a few issues brewing subsequent yr — extra festivals, extra exhibits, possibly some headline stuff. And possibly begin fascinated by new music too, only for enjoyable.”
Kittie not too long ago celebrated the 25th anniversary of their 1999 debut Spit with the Spit XXV EP, launched September 19 by way of Sumerian.
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