Returning metallic faves Kittie have revealed the unlikely set of circumstances that led to them recording their first album in over a decade – the wonderful Fire, which was given an 8/10 rating by Steel Hammer‘s Paul Travers upon launch final month.
Talking in Metal Hammer‘s latest issue, out now, the band clarify {that a} sure competition supply and an opportunity encounter with an outdated pal from the trade sewed the seeds for his or her official comeback, having been largely inactive following their 2011 album, I’ve Failed You.
“I bear in mind when the When We Have been Younger [festival] supply got here in to our e-mail, I took a screenshot of it and I despatched it to Morgan. I used to be like, ‘What do you need to do about this?’” remembers drummer Mercedes Lander. “It was a extremely nice supply, one thing that was nearly like, you may’t say no to that. The man that was providing us the present was very persistent. It’s his fault that we’re doing a report now. However you already know what, I’m glad for his persistence, as a result of I don’t suppose that may’ve ever occurred if he hadn’t.”
Mercedes’ sister and Kittie frontwoman Morgan Lander goes on to disclose that on the competition, the band would stumble upon Ash Avildsen, founding father of Sumerian Data, who had additionally been their reserving agent a few years earlier. A couple of weeks after they reunited with Avildsen, he provided them the prospect to report an album.
“He was like, ‘I need you to actually give it some thought. I’d like to put a Kittie album out’,” Morgan says. “He was like, ‘It doesn’t matter in the event you don’t have any music but.’ And we had been like, ‘Good, as a result of we don’t!’ This was not on our bingo card. We didn’t plan this. All the pieces form of spiralled from there.”
Learn extra from Kittie within the new situation of Steel Hammer, starring Ghost on the quilt.