Album Review: KITTIE Fire [Video]

When the thought of nü-metal enters my brain, it follows a pretty classic path. My memories jump to the classics: Limp Bizkit‘s “Break Stuff”, Korn‘s “Freak On A Leash”, Linkin Park‘s “One Step Closer”, and Slipknot‘s “The Heretic Anthem” – all which cradled my teenage goth anger better than my poorly hidden journal ever could. But somehow, Kittie‘s deadly catchy nü-metal single “Brackish” never entered my arsenal. As I sit with this thought and dig deeper into why I never heard them spinning in the five disc stereo system at the cool older kids parties, I start to wonder…what kept them from the Top 40? What might these other bands have had that Kittie didn’t? Oh. Dicks. 

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