Kittie - Funeral For Yesterday
Kittie has released their new album titled Funeral For Yesterday so put all your stereotype thoughts away about women in music and have a listen to their brand of in your face metal/rock. Throughout Funeral For Yesterday the four members shows you why you don’t f*ck with Kittie Funeral For Yesterday consists of fourteen metal/rock tracks. Kittie is the type of metal/rock music that I like the most, the bass isn’t too deep, you can understand all of the lyrics, and guitar riffs that kick you straight in the nuts, I like it all except for the kick in the nuts.
The title track “Funeral For Yesterday” is the first track off the album. At first listen you immediately get hooked on the song. The one thing about having an all woman band is the lyrics are not your typical metal lyrics. They still have the dark side of the lyrics but there is also that extra touch that is added. At the starting of the song there is a little guitar hook that leads into the song. After I listened to the album a couple of times through this song is an easy pick for me to be the lead single off of the album. The vocals near the end of the song gets a little higher which lets you know that the song is going to finish off soon, with the vocals tailing off like this, I might have switched this song to be the last song on the album because it would help to characterize the ending of the album also. But this song being as good as it is I feel that the track listing was done correctly. My favourite instrument in this song is the drums; they keep the speed and the darkness up in the song. What really stands out to me is the vocals are not the usual heavy sound that you hear, which to me makes this song somewhat unique and what really makes Kittie stand out.
“Breathe” follows up where “Funeral For Yesterday” started off at. At the start of the song the drums clash and the guitars take off. The process for writing in the guitars and drums must have taken them awhile to perfect because I can’t hear any wrong doing what so ever in this track, just like “Funeral For Yesterday” everything works together perfectly. This song shows how Kittie has Metal running through their veins; this song pretty much has every characteristic that a Metal album should have all rolled into one song. Heavy breathtaking drums, heavy guitar riffs, lyrics are deep and dark.
“Never Again” I was wondering when I was going to hear Screamo and this is the track that it is in. There is two vocal stylings in this song first you have the screamo and then there is the polished vocals. To me there is a coin toss for the vocals for this song, I do like Screamo in my metal but also hearing the polished vocals in the song makes me think if the song would sound better without the screamo and just have the polished vocals instead. But for now I do like the vocals the way they are now.
“Sweet Destruction” (Interlude) is what you would call the softer side of Kittie. The song is a mild tempo, with softer vocals than the rest of the tracks on the album. The song adds a little bit of a mix to the album. There is a bout a thirty second bled playout at the end of the track. “The Change” is the rock style of the guitars in most of the song and then there is the drums which hold in the metal sound. The “main” guitar riff is heavy but to me not heavy enough for it to be fully metal, and I can’t let the sweet guitar solo that is hidden into the background of the song.
But keeping in with the metal there is a screamo part to the song; also in the screamo section the instruments really do their own thing. The ending of the song signals the ending of the album which is the total opposite in which the album starts off.
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