KITTIE Celebrates 25 Years Of 'Oracle' With Release Of 'Oracle XXV' Featuring Two Newly Re-Recorded Tracks

Canadian metal pioneers KITTIE have released "Oracle XXV", a special two-track release celebrating the 25th anniversary of their landmark sophomore album, "Oracle", via Sumerian Records. With newly re-recorded versions of two tracks — "Mouthful Of Poison XXV", which is accompanied by a brand new music video, and "What I Always Wanted XXV" — the release revisits a defining moment in the band's career, when four young women who had already taken the metal world by storm decided to turn the heaviness up several more notches.

Originally released in 2001, "Oracle" arrived in the wake of the extraordinary success of KITTIE's gold-certified debut, "Spit", which had catapulted four teenage girls from London, Ontario onto the international metal stage. Where their debut had made waves with its raw nu-metal aggression and confrontational attitude, "Oracle" saw the band plunge headfirst into far more extreme territory, delivering a darker, heavier and altogether more punishing record, fueled by crushing, down-tuned riffs, death-metal influences, thunderous grooves and Morgan Lander's increasingly ferocious vocal delivery.

Speaking on the release, KITTIE shares: "Revisiting and celebrating the 25th anniversary of our second album with 'Oracle XXV' has been an absolute dream come true. Featuring a couple of our favorite re-recorded tracks, this offering brings the spirit of the original together with a fresh new energy. Much like our previous anniversary release, 'Spit XXV', it has been incredibly rewarding and exciting to see the past and present collide. We hope you love it as much as we do!"

"Oracle XXV" follows KITTIE's 2025-anniversary EP "Spit XXV", which saw KITTIE reunite with original producer Garth Richardson to re-record four tracks from their groundbreaking debut, including "Brackish", "Charlotte", "Spit" and "Do You Think I'm A Whore?". That release celebrated an album whose influence continues to reverberate through heavy music, with Rolling Stone naming "Spit" among its "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs Of All Time" in 2023 and a new generation of artists, including Poppy, introducing the band's early material to contemporary audiences.

The release also rounds out a milestone year for KITTIE, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2026 with the "Legacy Of Fire Tour: 30 Years Of Kittie", their first full North American headline run in more than a decade. The tour followed the band's triumphant return to the studio after a thirteen-year hiatus with 2024's "Fire", which earned a nomination for "Metal/Hard Music Album Of The Year" at the 2025 Juno Awards and delivered their highest-charting Mainstream Rock Airplay single to date with "We Are Shadows".

"Oracle XXV" track listing:

01. Mouthful of Poison XXV
02. What I Always Wanted XXV

"Oracle" was originally released on November 12, 2001 via Artemis Records. KITTIE recorded the LP between July and August 2001 as a three-piece following the departure of co-founding guitarist and vocalist Fallon Bowman, who was replaced by touring guitarist Jeff Phillips, at EMAC Recording Studios with producer Garth Richardson. It was KITTIE's only album with bassist Talena Atfield, who left the band four months after its release.

"Oracle" entered the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at position No. 57, selling 33,000 copies in its first week of release.

KITTIE bassist Ivana "Ivy" Jenkins sat out the "Legacy Of Fire Tour: 30 Years Of Kittie" tour due to a family commitment. Filling in for her was Rachel Gonzales of the Las Vegas band NEON KNIGHTS, who previously played with KITTIE on this year's ShipRocked cruise in February.