Oracle (Kittie album)

Oracle
Studio album by Kittie
Released October 30, 2001 (2001-10-30)
Recorded EMAC Recording Studios
Genre Heavy Metal
Length 47:41
Label Artemis
Producer Garth Richardson
Kittie chronology
Paperdoll
(2000)		 Oracle
(2001)		 Safe
(2004)
Singles from Oracle
  1. "What I Always Wanted"
    Released: 2001
  2. "Run Like Hell"
    Released: 2001
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]

Oracle is the second album by Kittie, a Canadian all-female heavy metal band from London, Ontario. It was released in 2001.

The album debuted at #57 in the Billboard Top 200, selling 30,000 copies.[3]

Contents

Background

After finishing their schedule on the 2001 SnoCore Tour, the band planned on returning to the same basement they recorded their first album, to begin a work on a sophomore effort.

Lead guitarist and vocalist Morgan Lander noted how the band members were only 14 years old when writing their debut album and that "We haven’t written in 4 or 5 years." She acknowledged a change in influence from their early days, stating, "Then we listened to bands like Nirvana, Silverchair, and Alice in Chains. Now we listen to stuff like Cannibal Corpse and Nile." However, the band would continue to write in the same fashion by first composing the music and then using that "as the backdrop behind the vocals."[4]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Oracle"   Atfield, Lander, Lander 2:02
2. "Mouthful of Poison"   Atfield, Lander, Lander 4:38
3. "In Winter"   Atfield, Lander, Lander 5:32
4. "Severed"   Atfield, Lander, Lander 3:20
5. "Run Like Hell (Pink Floyd cover)"   David Gilmour & Roger Waters 4:09
6. "Pain"   Atfield, Lander, Lander 3:49
7. "Wolves"   Atfield, Lander, Lander 3:25
8. "What I Always Wanted"   Atfield, Lander, Lander 3:43
9. "Safe"   Atfield, Lander, Lander 4:12
10. "No Name"   Atfield, Lander, Lander 2:14
11. "Pink Lemonade"   Atfield, Lander, Lander 10:37

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Rolling Stone review
  3. ^ "Rob Zombie And Sevendust Debut Solid, "Oracle" Reveals Future". shoutweb.com. 2001-11-21. http://www.shoutweb.com/news.phtml?keywords=Sevendust+keywords=Sevendust+mode=Article&newsitemID=97403. Retrieved 2001-11-21. 
  4. ^ Joseph, Peter Sno-core Ball hits with metal edge 'The GW Hatchet (February 8, 2001). Retrieved on 7-16-11.
  1. "Amazon". Shoutweb.com. http://www.shoutweb.com/news.phtml?keywords=Sevendust+. Retrieved 2008-11-10. 
  2. "Shoutweb". http://www.shoutweb.com/news.phtml?keywords=Sevendust+. Retrieved 2008-11-10. 
Kittie
Studio albums
EPs
Singles
"Brackish" · "Charlotte" · "What I Always Wanted" · "Run Like Hell" · "In Winter" · "Into the Darkness" · "Funeral for Yesterday" · "Breathe"  · "Cut Throat"  · "Sorrow I Know"  · "Die My Darling"  · "My Plague"  · "We Are the Lamb"