Track Listing

1. Funeral For Yesterday
2. Breathe
3. Everything That Could Have Been
4. Slow Motion
5. Will To Live
6. Never Again
7. Sweet Destruction Interlude
8. Summer Dies
9. Flower of Flesh and Blood
10. Around Your Heart
11. This Too Shall Pass
12. Last Goodbye
13. Witch Hunt
14. The Change

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27142 in Music
• Released on: 2007-02-20
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Enhanced

Album Description
Includes bonus DVD with 45 minutes of exclusive footage, interviews, and videos. It also features behind the scenes content in the studio making the album, Funeral For Yesterday.

Customer Reviews

Slight Disappointment
I've bought all 4 Kittie albums in the past 3 months and have enjoyed experiencing their evolution from teen garage band to accomplished heavy metal musicians. Both Oracle and Until the End rank as two of my favorite albums ever. I'm afraid they took a step backwards with this one though. In a way I think they've stepped back into pre-grunge heavy metal more along the lines of Tesla or Queensryche. I admire their addition of guitar solos and more complex arrangements, but they've lost some origininality here. I also have a problem with the recording and production on this album. Morgan sounds like she was recorded in a box. I lover her voice, but she sounds best when backed by heavy chords in a more open stadium style recording. Even their traditional Kittie style songs on this album such as "This too Shall Pass", sound better live than on this album. All I can say, is I'm waiting for their next one, hoping they get back on track. Also hoping they pick up one of their original bassists, maybe Talena or Jennifer now that Trish is gone.

Kittie burps the alphabet for fun AND profit?
After listening to "Funeral" several times, and not knowing anything about the band, I would say that half the album is great, the other half is a burping contest. Specifically tracks 4,6,9,11,12,13 and 14. (BURP!!!) BTW, the very first band that started this "growling", "screaming" or what have you, was unique, but every band since then that does it comes off sounding trite, cliche and like a running joke. Any band could do a song with the singer burping the alphabet and be just as relevant and "spooky". Kittie, ditch the "hair-ball gagging" and stick with singing. You'll be better off.

The title song kicks off the CD along with some sweet vocals planted throughout. The lead guitar races in the second track and blazes all the way to the end. The rest of the CD is good until it starts to fall into the gimicky "throat" (as one reviewer called it) right around track 4. My interest began to lag between numbers until the final 4 tunes when I figured the joke had run its course. (I listened all the way through, I didn't bail out early.)

Now about Kittie...Morgan is a great singer, regardless of who she might sound like. Mercedes is a good, steady drummer but she could stand to lose the triple bass pedal so we can really hear her stuff. Tara is a solid guitarist. No stupid sonic tricks like, say, Zakk Wylde, just gritty riffs or melodic playing throughout. They had better keep her! Trish has some nice meaty bass lines running through the disc. I watched the DVD and have determined that these four musicians really are on the same wavelength. It's not two sisters with some new side players. Their interplay is very cohesive and tight. I won't even sink to comparing them to any previous "girl groups". There are none.

Suggestions to purchasers: if you like rock with a decidedly heavy feel, you'll like this album. If you like a female singer that can make her own way, buy this. If you like a lead guitar player that could show the guys a few things, buy this. If you are into "growling", "screaming", etc. I suggest you buy a 2-liter bottle of root beer, chug it real fast, then start burping along with half this album because that's all you'll get to satisfy you. That, and a little dribble of spit rolling down your chin from the root beer foam.

They just get better and better
I started listening to Kittie when I was a kid and they still fail to surprise me. They have definitely gotten better over the years. This Album is proof of it.