In the August 2001, Fallon Bowman left Kittie. On July 11, 2000, Kittie made a home-video called "Spit in Your Eye" which featured interviews of the band and the band playing shows with the band Slipknot. The band was also voted "New Band of the Year", "Who's Going to be the Next Big Thing", and "Most Underrated Band", earning them a total of five Metal Edge Readers' Choice Awards that year. Their debut album and supporting tour earned Kittie coverage in Metal Edge, whose readers voted Morgan Lander for "Female Performer of the Year" and Spit for "Home Video of the Year" in the magazine's 2000 Readers' Choice Awards. Bassist Tanya Candler was replaced by bassist Talena Atfield. The album "Spit" has sold at least 600,000 copies in the United States and at least 40,000 copies in Canada. Although "Spit" isn't Kittie's album that has their highest chart-position, the album is their most successful album, being certified gold by the RIAA. During around this time, radio specialty shows and early press were supporting the album. Although Kittie's album Spit was finished in August 1999, it wasn't released until January 2000 because a long setup time for the album was wanted. Kittie released their debut album Spit on Artemis Records and toured with the band Slipknot. Therefore, Kittie ended up on Artemis Records. NG Records was bought out by Artemis Records. Kittie got signed to the NG Records-distributed record label Artemis Records and producer Garth Richardson acquired Kittie's demo. The band went up to Jake and made him see them play live and Jake and the rest of NG Records signed Kittie in the summer of 1999. Kittie approached Jake Weiner, a person who was second in command at NG Records. The band played concerts at Call the Office and The Embassy and signed up for Canadian Music Week in 1999. Kittie made demos and started playing concerts in 1998. Tanya Candler completed the lineup by joining as the bassist. Mercedes' sister Morgan Lander became the lead vocalist and guitarist after weeks of Fallon and Mercedes jamming. Kittie was formed in 1996 when drummer Mercedes Lander and guitarist Fallon Bowman met in gym class. Safe")ġ.5 2014-present (Project and documentary)ġ996-2004 (Early years, record deal, "Spit", "Oracle" and "Until the End") Originally a nu metal band, Kittie changed their style later, using elements of genres such as black metal and death metal.ġ History 1.1 1996-2004 (Early years, record deal, "Spit", "Oracle" and "Until the End")ġ.2 2005-2007 (Parting ways with Artemis Records and "Funeral for Yesterday")ġ.4 2011-2013 ("I've Failed You" and "Not So. Kittie has been categorized under multiple genres of rock music, especially heavy metal genres, including death metal, nu metal and alternative metal. In 2014, Kittie made a documentary as a 20th anniversary of the band. The band released "In the Black" in 2009 and "I've Failed You" in 2011. The band released "Funeral for Yesterday" in 2007 and signed to E1 Music in 2009. In 2005, Kittie parted ways with Artemis Records and created their own label.
The band released "Oracle" in 2001 and "Until the End" in 2004. After signing to NG Records, Kittie released their debut album "Spit", which was certified gold by the RIAA and sold at least 600,000 copies in the United States. Morgan Lander became the lead vocalist and one of Kittie's guitarists and Tanya Candler completed the band's lineup on bass. Kittie formed in 1996 when Fallon Bowman and Mercedes Lander met in gym class. The band chose their band name to be "Kittie" because the name "seemed contradictory".
They have released six studio albums, one video album, four extended plays, thirteen singles and thirteen music videos. Kittie (stylized as KiTTiE) are a Canadian heavy metal band formed in London, Ontario in 1996.
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