KITTIE will release Oracle XXV, a re-recorded 25th-anniversary edition of songs from the band's second studio album, Oracle, on Friday, November 13, 2026. A preview of the accompanying "Mouthful Of Poison XXV" music video is being unlocked for fans via a text-message campaign ahead of release.
The original Oracle came out on November 12, 2001 via Artemis Records. KITTIE made it in July and August 2001 at EMAC Recording Studios with producer Garth Richardson, working as a three-piece after co-founding guitarist and vocalist Fallon Bowman had left; touring guitarist Jeff Phillips filled the gap. It was the band's only album with bassist Talena Atfield, who departed four months after release. Oracle debuted at No. 57 on the Billboard 200, selling 33,000 copies in its first week.
Oracle XXV follows the same path as last year's Spit XXV, a re-recorded and reimagined EP marking a quarter century of the band's 1999 debut. Both anniversary projects sit alongside KITTIE's 2024 comeback album Fire, its first new material in 13 years. Fire reached No. 13 on the U.K. Rock & Metal Albums chart and No. 20 on Billboard's Top Album Sales, earned a 2025 Juno Award nomination for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year, and gave the band its highest-charting single yet: "We Are Shadows" climbed to No. 20 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
The band has just wrapped the "Legacy Of Fire Tour: 30 Years Of Kittie", its first full North American headlining run in more than a decade. The 16-date trek marked three decades since KITTIE formed in 1996 and featured KINGDOM OF GIANTS and GORE as support. Bassist Ivana "Ivy" Jenkins sat the tour out because of a family commitment, with Rachel Gonzales of Las Vegas band NEON KNIGHTS filling in — she had already played with KITTIE on the ShipRocked cruise in February.