The summer season of post-hiatus comebacks continues with the go back of Canadian metallers Kittie, 13 years after the discharge in their earlier album I’ve Failed You.
They’re unrecognisable from the nu-metal upstarts who first gave the impression in 1999, having morphed through the years right into a extra straight-ahead metallic band, and as of late just right and evil rage in vocalist/guitarist Morgan Lander and her sister, drummer/vocalist Mercedes, with blank vocals bringing the sunshine by contrast to the darkish of the rasping, pained growl unleashed over a unending barrage of steely riffs.
With that growl-and-riff combo, Kittie have very a lot nailed their colors to the mast; Hearth is precisely for the metallic crowd, for fairs, for conjuring hair-flinging power for like-minded other people, reasonably than appeasing an imaginary wider target market.
The lyrics are violent and doomy, the song competitive and constant, however there’s a defiant pleasure at play, a natural love for the style rediscovered finally this time.
