Until the End (Kittie album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Until the End
| type = studio
| artist = Kittie
| cover = Kittie Until the End.jpg
| alt = An angel, with their arms and legs bound by rope, drowning in water. The text "Kittie" stands in the top left, and the text "Until the End" in the bottom right hand corner.
| released = {{start date|2004|7|26}}
| recorded = March 2004
| studio = Long View Farm (North Brookfield, Massachusetts)
| genre = {{flatlist|
- Death metal
- heavy metal
- {{nowrap|thrash metal}}
}}
| length = {{Duration|m=41|s=20}}
| label = Artemis
| producer = Steve Thompson
| prev_title = Safe
| prev_year = 2002
| next_title = Never Again
| next_year = 2006
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Until the End
| type = studio
| single1 = Into the Darkness
| single1date = June 29, 2004
}}
}}
Until the End is the third studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Kittie, released on July 26, 2004, through Artemis Records. It was their only album with bassist Jennifer Arroyo, who joined the band in March 2002. The album was recorded in March 2004 with producer Steve Thompson at Long View Farm Studios in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Musically, it continued Kittie's transition away from their early nu metal sound, whilst placing a heavier emphasis on melody than on their previous two albums. Kittie wrote the album while they were engaged in a lawsuit with Artemis, and its lyrics and artwork reflect the band's feelings of frustration and uncertainty during that period. After recording concluded, Kittie recruited guitarist Lisa Marx for a tour in support of the album.
Until the End received mixed reviews from critics, who were divided over its maturity and progression from Kittie's earlier output. The album sold 19,000 copies in its first week and peaked at number 105 on the US Billboard 200 chart and its only single, "Into the Darkness", reached number 116 on the UK Singles Chart. After two promotional tours in support of the album, financial difficulties caused by a lack of touring support from Artemis led to the departures of Arroyo and Marx from Kittie in February 2005; the following month, the band parted ways with the label and went on hiatus.
Background
In November 2001, Kittie released their second studio album, Oracle.{{Cite web |last=D'Angelo |first=Joe |date=December 11, 2001 |title=Kittie Hitting The Road After Christmas |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/b09yf7/kittie-hitting-the-road-after-christmas |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411150946/https://www.mtv.com/news/b09yf7/kittie-hitting-the-road-after-christmas |archive-date=April 11, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-11 |website=MTV News |language=en}} On March 18, 2002, following a tour of Europe in support of the album, bassist Talena Atfield left the band.{{Cite web |last=Catlin |first=Roger |date=2002-03-28 |title=Here, Kittie, With One Less Player |url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2002-03-28-0203281481-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428140700/https://www.courant.com/2002/03/28/here-kittie-with-one-less-player/ |archive-date=April 28, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=Hartford Courant |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Jonathan |date=2002 |title=Hear Kittie Kittie: Canadian Metal Maidens |url=http://www.prickmag.net/kittiefeature.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030203064741/http://www.prickmag.net/kittiefeature.html |archive-date=2003-02-03 |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Prick}} Jennifer Arroyo, formerly of the rap metal band Spine, joined Kittie two days later, making her live debut with the band in Manchester, New Hampshire, on March 29, 2002. Arroyo first met Kittie vocalist and guitarist Morgan Lander and drummer Mercedes Lander in 2000, when both of their bands performed on Farmclub.com. Morgan and Mercedes felt that Arroyo brought a "a new element" to Kittie with her technical and melodic playing style; during the band's subsequent live performances, they would let her play improvised bass solos to show off her abilities.{{Sfn|McCallum|2017|loc=42:38–42:50}} The band continued to tour until February 2003.{{Cite web |last=Finn |first=Sean |date=2003-11-26 |title=Clawing Their Way to the Top |url=http://www.choler.com/articles/kittie_2.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040513051102/http://www.choler.com/articles/kittie_2.shtml |archive-date=2004-05-13 |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=Chloer Magazine |page=2}}
On April 1, 2003, Kittie filed a lawsuit against its record label, Artemis Records, and its parent company, Sheridan Square Entertainment, claiming that the label owed them unpaid royalties.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2003-04-01 |title=Kittie File Lawsuit Against Their Record Label |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-file-lawsuit-against-their-record-label/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409064937/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-file-lawsuit-against-their-record-label |archive-date=April 9, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2003-08-19 |title=Kittie And Producer File New Claims In Suit Against Artemis Records |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-and-producer-file-new-claims-in-suit-against-artemis-records/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407092131/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-and-producer-file-new-claims-in-suit-against-artemis-records |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}} The lawsuit prevented Kittie from recording a new album, and the band members were unsure if they would stay together through the end of the lawsuit.{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=42}}{{Cite web |last=Gleason |first=Matt |date=2004-10-21 |title=Sounds Like Ours: Kittie scratches way back from label woes |url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/sounds-like-ours-kittie-scratches-way-back-from-label-woes/article_a137ddc4-3eb8-5bc1-bfad-c8253e8c6fda.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303215831/https://tulsaworld.com/archive/sounds-like-ours-kittie-scratches-way-back-from-label-woes/article_a137ddc4-3eb8-5bc1-bfad-c8253e8c6fda.html |archive-date=March 3, 2024 |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=Tulsa World |language=en}}{{Cite magazine |last=Smith |first=Rod |date=October 2004 |title=Kittie |url=http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/oct2004/kittie.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060506005811/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/oct2004/kittie.aspx |archive-date=May 6, 2006 |access-date=January 4, 2024 |website=Decibel |publisher=Red Flag Media, Inc. |issue=1}} To cope with the uncertainty, they began working on new material.{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=42}}{{sfn|McCallum|2017|loc=43:36–43:52}} Morgan wrote most of Until the End{{'s}} guitar riffs, lyrics and melodies, with Mercedes and Arroyo contributing some additional arrangements and their own drum tracks and basslines to the album, respectively.{{Cite web |last=Steffen |first=Chris |title=Kittie interview (page 1) |url=http://dallasmusicguide.com/interviews/kittie1.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040725095541/http://dallasmusicguide.com/interviews/kittie1.htm |archive-date=2004-07-25 |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Dallas Music Guide}}{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=44}} Kittie performed several shows in June and July 2003,{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2003-06-05 |title=Kittie To Lend Support To Fellow London Musician's Family At First Hometown Gig In Three Years |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-to-lend-support-to-fellow-london-musician-s-family-at-first-hometown-gig-in-three-years/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920025027/https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-to-lend-support-to-fellow-london-musician-s-family-at-first-hometown-gig-in-three-years/ |archive-date=September 20, 2021 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}} before embarking on their Kiss of Infamy Tour with Motograter and 40 Below Summer, from October 18 to December 1, 2003.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2003-10-06 |title=Kittie To Debut New Material On Upcoming Tour |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-to-debut-new-material-on-upcoming-tour/ |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en |archive-date=July 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724232109/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-to-debut-new-material-on-upcoming-tour |url-status=live }} On both tours, the band debuted six new songs; "Look So Pretty",{{Sfn|Gargano|2004|p=45}} "Career Suicide", "Until the End", "Pussy Sugar", "Burning Bridges", and "Loveless".{{Cite web |last=Easton |first=Jeff |date=November 18, 2003 |title=Interviews 2003 : Morgan & Mercedes of Kittie |url=http://www.metal-exiles.com:80/modules/news02/print.php?storyid=57&PHPSESSID=14b93dfc00036d7ac5b2ba1eb9364e21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051024123739/http://www.metal-exiles.com:80/modules/news02/print.php?storyid=57&PHPSESSID=14b93dfc00036d7ac5b2ba1eb9364e21 |archive-date=2005-10-24 |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=The Metal Exiles |publication-date=December 8, 2003}}{{sfn|Gloss|2003}} Mercedes said that playing their new songs helped them mature and made the band more comfortable recording them.{{Cite web |date=April 26, 2004 |title=Artemis Recording Artists Kittie To Release Long-Awaited Follow Up Set "Until the End" July 27th; New Guitarist Lisa Marx Joins Line-Up |url=http://www.artemisrecords.com/newsarticle.aspx?id=144 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504231204/http://www.artemisrecords.com/newsarticle.aspx?id=144 |archive-date=2006-05-04 |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=artemisrecords.com}}
Recording and production
On March 1, 2004, it was announced that Kittie and Artemis Records had settled the lawsuit.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2004-03-01 |title=Kittie Settle Lawsuit With Artemis, Begin Recording New Album |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-settle-lawsuit-with-artemis-begin-recording-new-album/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416112103/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-settle-lawsuit-with-artemis-begin-recording-new-album |archive-date=April 16, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}} According to Morgan, the band decided to settle after realizing it would take too long to resolve and ultimately be of no benefit to them, even if they won. The band subsequently commenced recording their third album at Long View Farm Studios in North Brookfield, Massachusetts with producer Steve Thompson, marking the first time the band had recorded outside of their hometown of London, Ontario.{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=44}} Recording lasted three weeks, with the band working for almost twelve hours a day in the studio.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2004-03-29 |title=Kittie Discuss Approach To Recording New Album 'Until The End' |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-discuss-approach-to-recording-new-album-until-the-end/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006043954/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-discuss-approach-to-recording-new-album-until-the-end |archive-date=October 6, 2022 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}} Morgan said that Kittie chose to record at Long View Farm because of its isolated nature and facilities, allowing the band to focus solely on recording;{{harvnb|Borowsky|2004|loc=2:40–2:57}}; {{harvnb|Gargano|2004|p=44}}; {{harvnb|Heimlich|2004|p=66}} according to Mercedes, they left the studio three or four times at most during the recording process.{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=44}} The band spent little time doing pre-production, as they had finished writing and arranging all of their songs before they went in to record them.{{harvnb|Gargano|2004|p=44}}; {{harvnb|Tillinghast|2004|pp=54–55}} The basic guitar, bass and drum tracks for Until the End were done in the first week of recording; Mercedes' drums were tracked in the span of three days.{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=44}}{{Sfn|Borowsky|2004|loc=13:37–13:50}} The following week, Morgan finished recording her vocals.{{Sfn|Borowsky|2004|loc=1:27–1:42}}
Until the End was recorded onto two-inch analogue tape, with minimal digital editing or overdubs.{{#tag:ref|Mercedes said that the only time digital editing was used on Until the End was to replace a missed drum hit on "Daughters Down".{{Cite web |last=Amendola |first=Billy |date=May 12, 2004 |title=Web Exclusive Interview: Mercedes Lander |url=http://www.moderndrummer.com/web_exclusive.asp?alt=100010213 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040811173935/http://www.moderndrummer.com/web_exclusive.asp?alt=100010213 |archive-date=2004-08-11 |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=Modern Drummer}}
|group=N}} No click tracks were used.{{Sfn|Borowsky|2004|loc=6:26–6:43, 8:36–9:12}} Morgan said that Thompson's approach to recording was "more to focus on the song itself" and develop its own individual sound and personality;{{Cite web |title=Kittie: Back On The Prowl |url=https://guitar.com/articles/kittie-back-prowl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203032250/https://guitar.com/articles/kittie-back-prowl |archive-date=2010-12-03 |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=Guitar.com}} he and the band would spend time attempting to get specific guitar tones and sounds,{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=44}} sometimes by experimenting with his array of instruments and pedals,{{sfn|McCallum|2017|loc=46:18–46:39}} and others by recording in different rooms at the studio. Arroyo and Mercedes recorded their parts in Long View's control room, whilst Morgan was largely situated in an isolated room on the studio's second floor. She said that this reduced the amount of pressure she felt when recording, "[as] I could just sit up there with my amp and focus."
In between recording sessions, Kittie held auditions at Long View Farm for a new, permanent replacement for touring guitarist Jeff Phillips, who had left the band to work full-time with his other band, Thine Eyes Bleed.{{harvnb|Gargano|2004|pp=42, 45}}; {{harvnb|Jeckell|2004}} "We were looking for someone really solid and with something to offer, someone who could hear something and play it right off the bat", Arroyo said.{{Cite news |last=Anon. |date=April 25, 2004 |title=Seattle guitarist joins Kittie |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/music/article/seattle-guitarist-joins-kittie-1143075.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203134402/https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/music/article/seattle-guitarist-joins-kittie-1143075.php |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |access-date=2024-05-19 |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |language=en}} The band tried out six or seven people, including Lisa Marx, formerly of the hardcore band To See You Broken.{{sfn|Gargano|2004|pp=42, 45}} Kittie first learned of Marx after meeting her bandmates at a Seattle show and Mercedes subsequently reached out to her online.{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=42}} The band liked her personality and their shared sense of humour,{{Sfn|McCallum|2017|loc=48:33–49:52}} and although she was the second or third person to try out, "we really knew it was going to be [her] from the beginning", Morgan said.{{Sfn|Gargano|2004|p=42}} Artemis Records announced the addition of Marx to Kittie's lineup, as well as Until the End{{'s}} release date, on April 26, 2004.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2004-04-26 |title=Kittie Announce New Second Guitarist |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-announce-new-second-guitarist/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426142809/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-announce-new-second-guitarist |archive-date=April 26, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-22 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}}
Composition and lyrics
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| quote = It's [the sound of] a band that's starting to understand the balance between heavy and light, and to unite it. It's also a representation of [a] band that is in a lot of trouble, and isn't happy with their situation, and is falling apart.
| source = — Morgan Lander reflecting on Until the End in an interview with the Cleveland Scene (2007){{Cite web |last=Kotz |first=Pete |date=March 21, 2007 |title=Talking Girl Metal from Kittie's Morgan Lander |url=https://www.clevescene.com/music/talking-girl-metal-from-kitties-morgan-lander-1559787 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413153027/https://www.clevescene.com/music/talking-girl-metal-from-kitties-morgan-lander-1559787 |archive-date=April 13, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Cleveland Scene |language=en}}
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Until the End has been described as death metal,{{Cite web |last=Skidmore |first=Rick |date=August 12, 2004 |title=Kittie |url=https://www.westword.com/music/kittie-5080576 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Westword |language=en |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331154251/https://www.westword.com/music/kittie-5080576 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Watkins |first=Gareth |date=2016-02-26 |title=The Nu Metal Years Part 2: The Guantanamo Diaries |url=https://cvltnation.com/the-nu-metal-years/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160228073024/https://cvltnation.com/the-nu-metal-years/ |archive-date=February 28, 2016 |access-date=2024-06-01 |website=CVLT Nation |language=en-US}} heavy metal{{Cite web |last=Monger |first=James Christopher |title=Kittie - Until the End Album Reviews, Songs & More |date=n.d. |website=AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/until-the-end-mw0000452854 |access-date=2023-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029112820/https://www.allmusic.com/album/until-the-end-mw0000452854 |archive-date=2023-10-29 |url-status=live |publisher=RhythmOne |language=en}} and thrash metal. The album continued Kittie's transition away from their early nu metal sound; journalists Dave Perri and Mark Fisher believed that it marked the point that Kittie became a proper heavy metal band.{{sfn|Popoff|Perri|2011}}{{Cite web |last=Fisher |first=Mark |date=February 14, 2007 |title='Funeral For Yesterday' new chapter for Kittie |url=https://www.timeswv.com/news/lifestyles/funeral-for-yesterday-new-chapter-for-kittie/article_c60702e4-2d9c-50e2-bd41-60f31a27bdcc.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413151806/https://www.timeswv.com/news/lifestyles/funeral-for-yesterday-new-chapter-for-kittie/article_c60702e4-2d9c-50e2-bd41-60f31a27bdcc.html |archive-date=April 13, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Times West Virginian |language=en}} Placing a heavier emphasis on melody than on their previous albums,{{Cite magazine |last=BT |date=August 14, 2004 |title=Until the End |url=http://www.billboard.com/bb/reviews/album_article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000601248 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040810141752/http://www.billboard.com/bb/reviews/album_article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000601248 |archive-date=2004-08-10 |access-date=2023-03-16 |magazine=Billboard}}{{Cite web |last=Beck |first=Susann |title=Mit sanftem Schnurren gegen die Selbstmord-Tendenz. |trans-title=With gentle purring against the suicidal tendency. |url=https://www.laut.de/Kittie/Alben/Until-The-End-7110 |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=laut.de |language=de |archive-date=May 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517183445/https://www.laut.de/Kittie/Alben/Until-The-End-7110 |url-status=live }} it contains heavy riffs, double bass drumming,{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2004-04-13 |title=Kittie Reveal Song Details For 'Until The End' |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-reveal-song-details-for-until-the-end/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331155029/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-reveal-song-details-for-until-the-end |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-28 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}} fluctuating time signatures, and no guitar solos, as well as screamed, growled,{{Cite web |last=Pratt |first=Greg |date=September 1, 2004 |title=Kittie - Until the End |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/kittie-until_end-2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401222241/https://exclaim.ca/music/article/kittie-until_end-2 |archive-date=April 1, 2018 |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=Exclaim! |language=en}} snarled and clean vocals. As with Kittie's previous albums, its songs are written in drop C tuning. On "Into the Darkness", Kittie experimented with the use of vocal harmony between screamed and melodic, clean vocals, and with a key change in its last chorus; Morgan felt that it was "the most difficult song [she'd] ever written lyrically and vocally".{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=44}} A "vocal remix" of the song, featured as the album's final track, removes the screamed vocals.
According to Morgan Lander, the lyrics of the songs on Until the End reflect Kittie's feelings of frustration and uncertainty amidst their legal struggles with Artemis Records.{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=45}} They also cover personal experiences, relationships, and human nature. Morgan said that the album's opening track, "Look So Pretty", was an angry response to menacing acts directed towards unspecified others. She also said that "Pussy Sugar" is about "seeing someone you care about go through a dark, unfortunate time" and realizing one's inability to help them. Morgan stated that "In Dreams" is about perceiving herself as going crazy as a result of stress.{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=45}} "Into the Darkness" reflects Kittie's fear of the unknown.{{Cite web |last=Prato |first=Greg |date=October 14, 2015 |title=Morgan Lander of Kittie: Songwriter Interviews |url=https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/morgan-lander-of-kittie |access-date=April 30, 2023 |website=Songfacts |archive-date=March 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328113800/https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/morgan-lander-of-kittie |url-status=live }}{{sfn|Strokes|2004}}
The artwork for Until the End was illustrated by Geoff Mack, from a visual concept by Morgan Lander. Morgan said that the cover represented helplessness, "the end of innocence", and the feeling of "being suffocated and held down", the latter referring to Kittie's struggles with Artemis.{{sfn|Gargano|2004|p=45}} Its title refers to Kittie's feelings of perseverance.{{sfn|Tillinghast|2004|p=55}}
Reception
= Commercial =
Until the End was released in Europe on July 26, 2004, and in the United States the following day.{{Sfn|Music Week|2004}} It sold 19,000 copies in its first week of release, debuting at number 105 on the US Billboard 200 chart and number four on Billboard{{'s}} Top Independent Albums chart.{{cite magazine |date=2004-08-13 |title=Billboard Bits: EWF, Cher, Kittie, Bloomingtonfest |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/66907/billboard-bits-ewf-cher-kittie-bloomingtonfest |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427203625/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/66907/billboard-bits-ewf-cher-kittie-bloomingtonfest |archive-date=April 27, 2014 |access-date=2004-08-13 |magazine=Billboard}} The album's only single, "Into the Darkness", was released to radio stations on June 29, 2004.{{Cite web |last=mlander |date=May 25, 2004 |title=Kittie Names "Into the Darkness" as First Single from Upcoming Release |url=http://www.kittierocks.com/main.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040607045644/http://www.kittierocks.com/main.php |archive-date=2004-06-07 |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=kittierocks.com}}{{Cite web |date=June 4, 2004 |title=Kittie Narrowly Escapes Electrocution While Filming Video |url=http://www.artemisrecords.com/newsarticle.aspx?id=149 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504225740/http://www.artemisrecords.com/newsarticle.aspx?id=149 |archive-date=2006-05-04 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=artemisrecords.com}} It was released as a single in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2004, where it reached number 116 on the UK Singles Chart.{{Cite web |title=Releases |url=http://www.drownedinsound.com/releases.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040804005148/http://www.drownedinsound.com/releases.php |archive-date=2004-08-04 |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=Drowned in Sound}}{{cite web |author=Zywietz, Tobias |title=Chart Log UK: Alex K – Kyuss |url=http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_K.HTM |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324150539/http://zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_K.HTM |archive-date=March 24, 2016 |access-date=February 8, 2013 |work=zobbel.de |publisher=Tobias Zywietz}} Kittie filmed a music video for the song, directed by Greg Kaplan and Rafaela Monfradini, in late May 2004.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2004-05-25 |title=Kittie To Film Video For 'Into The Darkness' |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-to-film-video-for-into-the-darkness/ |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en |archive-date=May 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230504100334/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-to-film-video-for-into-the-darkness |url-status=live }} The video first aired on MTV2's Headbangers Ball on June 19, 2004, and also received rotation on Fuse and Kerrang! TV, with the latter channel selecting it as the "Video of the Week" for August 18 to 24, 2004.{{sfn|Strokes|2004}}{{Cite web |date=July 21, 2004 |title=It's Only the Beginning for Kittie as New Album "Until the End" Hits #1 at Metal Radio: Album Due In Stores Tuesday as North American Trek Rolls On |url=http://www.artemisrecords.com/newsarticle.aspx?id=161 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504230118/http://www.artemisrecords.com/newsarticle.aspx?id=161 |archive-date=2006-05-04 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=artemisrecords.com}}
= Critical =
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}
| rev2 = Blabbermouth.net
| rev2score = 5/10{{cite web |last=Kaye |first=Don|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/cdreviews/until-the-end/ |title=CD Reviews - Until The End Kittie |date=July 30, 2004 |website=Blabbermouth.net |access-date=2023-04-28 |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923222432/http://www.blabbermouth.net/cdreviews/until-the-end/ |url-status=live }}
| rev3 = Blender
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite web |last=Bracelin |first=Jason |date=August 2004 |title=Review: Kittie: Until the End |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2551 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041103211154/http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2551 |archive-date=2004-11-03 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Blender |page=133}}
| rev4 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal
| rev4score = 6/10{{sfn|Popoff|Perri|2011}}
| rev5 = Kerrang!
| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{sfn|Ruskell|2004}}
| rev6 = NME
| rev7 = Now
| rev7score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Bromstein |first=Elizabeth |date=August 12, 2004 |title=Until the End: Kittie (Artemis) |url=http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-08-12/music_discs8.php |magazine=Now |volume=23 |issue=50 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050116013653/http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-08-12/music_discs8.php |archive-date=January 16, 2005 |access-date=January 27, 2024 |url-status=dead }}
| rev8 = Rock Hard
| rev8score = 7/10{{Cite web |last=Jaedike |first=Jan |date=August 18, 2004 |title=Until The End |url=https://www.rockhard.de/reviews/kittie-until-the-end |access-date=2023-04-14 |website=Rock Hard |type=Vol. 208 |language=de-DE |archive-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414103936/https://www.rockhard.de/reviews/kittie-until-the-end |url-status=live |url-access=subscription}}
| rev9 = Spin
| rev9score = B−{{sfn|Spin|2004}}
| rev10 = Stylus
| rev10score = 8/10{{Cite web |last=Randolph |first=Bjorn |date=August 3, 2004 |title=Kittie - Until the End - Stylus Magazine |url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com:80/review.php?ID=2212 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040818212858/http://www.stylusmagazine.com:80/review.php?ID=2212 |archive-date=2004-08-18 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Stylus Magazine}}
| MC = 56/100{{Cite web |title=Until The End by Kittie |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/until-the-end/kittie |website=Metacritic |access-date=2023-03-16 |language=en |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406020520/https://www.metacritic.com/music/until-the-end/kittie |url-status=live }}
}}
On review aggregator website Metacritic, Until the End holds a score of 56 out of 100, based on reviews from seven critics, which indicates "mixed or average reviews". AllMusic reviewer James Christopher Monger praised its heavy composition but noted an "adherence to formulaic modern metal clichés" on some of its later songs. Blabbermouth.net criticised Kittie's "rudimentary songwriting skills" and "mediocre" talents on the album, which they described as a "murk of generic metal". Ox-Fanzine described the album's compositions as "flat as they are superfluous", and stated that Kittie "haven't grown up".{{Cite web |last=Winter |first=Dominik |date=September 2004 |title=Review |url=https://www.ox-fanzine.de/review/kittie-until-the-end-cd-39335 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331155032/https://www.ox-fanzine.de/review/kittie-until-the-end-cd-39335 |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Ox-Fanzine |language=de}} Despite finding some "faintly creative moments" on the record, Exclaim!{{'s}} Jill Mikkelson commented that the album's main selling point was Kittie's "juvenile riot grrrl attitude".{{Cite web |last=Mikkelson |first=Jill |date=September 1, 2004 |title=Kittie: Until The End |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/kittie-until_end |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923190413/https://exclaim.ca/music/article/kittie-until_end |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |access-date=April 27, 2004 |website=Exclaim!}} George Smith of The Village Voice dismissed the album as "tenaciously mindless and effortlessly grim", comparing Kittie unfavourably with Slayer, Pungent Stench and Grave and commenting that "other than being a product of women, there's only one reason to recommend [Until the End]: It's marginally better than Auf der Maur".{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=George |date=2004-09-21 |title=Feline Metal Band Delivers Metal Album, Like Many Metal Bands Before Them |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0438/smith.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040923070646/http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0438/smith.php |archive-date=2004-09-23 |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=The Village Voice}}
Rick Skidmore of Westword and Kerrang!{{'s}} Nick Ruskell stated that Kittie had made significant improvements to their songwriting on Until the End; the latter said that the band "sounds more like their own{{nbsp}}... than the Machine Head-ettes of old".{{sfn|Ruskell|2004}} Rock Hard{{'s}} Jan Jaedike wrote that although the album's sound was not completely removed from Kittie's earlier nu metal output, its songs had "real hit character". Bjorn Randolph of Stylus Magazine argued that Mercedes' tight sense of groove and Morgan's "dual vocal personae" gave Kittie "the swing and the sing" necessary to differentiate themselves from other heavy metal bands. In a mixed review for the Cleveland Scene, D.X. Ferris stated that Morgan's vocals were "dependent on the cheap duality of her demon growl/angel-swoon vocals".{{Cite web |last=Ferris |first=D. X. |date=July 21, 2004 |title=Kittie: Until the End (Artemis) |url=https://www.clevescene.com/music/kittie-1487245 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603012902/https://www.clevescene.com/music/kittie-1487245 |archive-date=June 3, 2023 |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=Cleveland Scene |language=en}} NME{{'s}} Pete Cashmore criticized Kittie's lack of originality and attempts to incorporate "subtlety and nuance" into the thrash metal genre, which he felt was "to the detriment of a style that should always be about brutality and aural punishment".
Retrospective reviews remain mixed. David Perri, writing in The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 4: The '00s (2011), criticized its oft-"clumsy" songwriting and "cheap" production but considered it "a giant leap in the right direction for Kittie".{{Sfn|Popoff|Perri|2011}} In 2022, MetalSucks called the album Kittie's best, and a "perfect example of an awesome band proving their worth to the worthy after all of the fair-weather fans aimed their attention elsewhere".{{Cite web |last=Rhombus |first=Emperor |date=2022-04-04 |title=13 Bands Whose Best Album Isn't Their Most Popular |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2022/04/04/13-bands-whose-best-album-isnt-their-most-popular/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331154248/https://www.metalsucks.net/2022/04/04/13-bands-whose-best-album-isnt-their-most-popular/ |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-14 |website=MetalSucks |language=en}} Conversely, Paul Travers of Metal Hammer ranked it as Kittie's worst in a 2024 ranking of the band's seven albums, stating: "Kittie have never made a terrible album, but Until The End was perhaps their least cohesive."{{Cite web |last=Travers |first=Paul |date=2024-07-21 |title="A highly consistent and often underrated catalogue": Every Kittie album ranked from worst to best |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/kittie-albums-ranked-worst-to-best |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722122508/https://www.loudersound.com/features/kittie-albums-ranked-worst-to-best |archive-date=2024-07-22 |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=Metal Hammer |language=en |via=loudersound}}
Touring and aftermath
From July to August 2004, Kittie embarked on a headline tour with supporting acts Candiria, 36 Crazyfists and Twelve Tribes.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2004-06-30 |title=Kittie Announce First Tour In Support Of 'Until The End' |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-announce-first-tour-in-support-of-until-the-end/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426142510/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-announce-first-tour-in-support-of-until-the-end |archive-date=April 26, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-22 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}} The band also performed at one of the stops of Roadrunner Records' RoadRage 2004 tour, at the Worcester Palladium in Massachusetts, on August 6, 2004.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2004-06-28 |title=RoadRage 2004: Tour Dates Announced |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/roadrage-2004-tour-dates-announced/ |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en |archive-date=July 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230710122739/https://blabbermouth.net/news/roadrage-2004-tour-dates-announced |url-status=live }} On August 11, 2004, Mercedes was hospitalized for internal bleeding, caused by a combination of stress and dehydration, prior to a show in Cleveland, Ohio.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2004-08-13 |title=Kittie Drummer To Undergo Extensive Tests, Band Cancel Tour |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-drummer-to-undergo-extensive-tests-band-cancel-tour/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428140702/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-drummer-to-undergo-extensive-tests-band-cancel-tour |archive-date=April 28, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}}{{Sfn|Aberback|2004}} Consequently, the band cancelled their remaining tour dates. On September 7, 2004, Kittie announced that they would join Otep and Crisis for the Metal Movement Tour from September 27 to November 10, 2004.Metal Movement Tour dates:
- {{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2004-09-07 |title=Kittie, Otep, Crisis To Team Up For Metal Movement Tour |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-otep-crisis-to-team-up-for-metal-movement-tour/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028225534/https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-otep-crisis-to-team-up-for-metal-movement-tour/ |archive-date=October 28, 2020 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}}
- {{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2004-09-21 |title=Kittie, Otep, Crisis: More Tour Dates Announced |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-otep-crisis-more-tour-dates-announced/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029075217/https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-otep-crisis-more-tour-dates-announced/ |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}}
Kittie formed the tour with the intention of raising awareness for women in heavy metal.{{Cite web |last=Galaboff |first=Mike |date=October 29, 2004 |title=Kittie - Western Courier - The Edge |url=http://www.westerncourier.com/news/2004/10/29/TheEdge/Kittie-786869.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041104053118/http://www.westerncourier.com/news/2004/10/29/TheEdge/Kittie-786869.shtml |archive-date=2004-11-04 |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=The Western Courier}}{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Andrew |date=October 13, 2004 |title=Metal Movement Tour |url=https://www.clevescene.com/music/metal-movement-tour-1488300 |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=Cleveland Scene |language=en |archive-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519121412/https://www.clevescene.com/music/metal-movement-tour-1488300 |url-status=live }} On January 15, 2005, the band performed at the Circo Volador concert hall in Mexico City.{{harvnb|Garcia|2004}}; {{harvnb|Gonzalez|2005}}
Artemis Records offered Kittie limited touring and promotional support for Until the End,{{Cite web |last=Gramlich |first=Barry |date=June 3, 2005 |title=Jennifer Arroyo ties her fate to Suicide City |url=http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNjcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY3MDI0NjkmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060221192642/http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNjcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY3MDI0NjkmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3 |archive-date=2006-02-21 |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=North Jersey Media Group}}{{Sfn|Aberback|2006}} forcing Morgan and Mercedes to pay Arroyo, Marx and the band's touring costs with their personal funds.{{Cite web |last=Suehs |first=Bob |date=May 11, 2006 |title=Kittie (entire band) - Interview |url=http://rocknrollexperience.com/news/147/38/Kittie-entire-band-Interview |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413153026/http://rocknrollexperience.com/news/147/38/Kittie-entire-band-Interview |archive-date=April 13, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Rock N Roll Experience }} Due to their worsening financial situation, Morgan and Mercedes told Arroyo and Marx after Kittie finished touring that they would not be able to pay them a retainer. Marx was upset by this, and left the band following their tour of Mexico in February 2005.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2005-03-23 |title=Guitarist Lisa Marx Quits Kittie |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/guitarist-lisa-marx-quits-kittie/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407042701/https://blabbermouth.net/news/guitarist-lisa-marx-quits-kittie |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en |quote=I quit the band in February. [...] I have not heard from Morgan or Mercedes since the tour in Mexico.}}{{sfn|McCallum|2017|loc=51:47–52:06}} Arroyo left Kittie shortly thereafter to pursue work with her other band, Suicide City, which she felt gave her more room to contribute creatively. Morgan and Mercedes had anticipated Arroyo's departure, and the split was amicable.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2005-03-23 |title=Kittie Frontwoman Says Guitarist And Bassist Have Both Left The Band |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-frontwoman-says-guitarist-and-bassist-have-both-left-the-band/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221019184047/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-frontwoman-says-guitarist-and-bassist-have-both-left-the-band |archive-date=October 19, 2022 |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}}
Morgan announced Marx and Arroyo's departures through a statement on Kittie's official message board on March 23, 2005, where she blamed Artemis Records' lack of support for the band for their departures. At the time, the band were in contract negotiations with Artemis.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2005-03-22 |title=Kittie: Discussing The Future With Artemis Records |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-discussing-the-future-with-artemis-records/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407092145/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-discussing-the-future-with-artemis-records |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}} A week later, on March 31, 2005, Kittie parted ways with Artemis after the band rejected a proposed amendment to the band's contract with the label, which would have reduced the recording budget of their fourth album.{{Cite web |last=Newton |first=Todd |date=2005 |title=Kittie - Interview |url=http://www.blasting-zone.com:80/Kittie1.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060107155940/http://www.blasting-zone.com:80/Kittie1.htm |archive-date=2006-01-07 |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=blasting-zone.com}}{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2005-03-31 |title=Kittie 'Released' From Artemis Records |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-released-from-artemis-records/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406142040/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-released-from-artemis-records |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en}} Following this, Morgan and Mercedes put the band on hiatus for six months.{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Chris |date=November 16, 2006 |title=Metal File: Kittie, Cradle Of Filth, Meshuggah & More News That Rules |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/y8mbf6/metal-file-kittie-cradle-of-filth-meshuggah-more-news-that-rules |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405175048/https://www.mtv.com/news/y8mbf6/metal-file-kittie-cradle-of-filth-meshuggah-more-news-that-rules |archive-date=April 5, 2023 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=MTV News |language=en}}{{#tag:ref|In Kittie: Origins/Evolutions (2017), Mercedes stated that Kittie had quietly disbanded in early 2005.{{sfn|McCallum|2017|loc=53:03–53:32}} However, Morgan denied that the band had broken up at the time.{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2005-05-11 |title=Kittie Frontwoman: 'We Have Not Broken Up' |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-frontwoman-we-have-not-broken-up/ |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=Blabbermouth.net |language=en |archive-date=May 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508072532/https://blabbermouth.net/news/kittie-frontwoman-we-have-not-broken-up |url-status=live }}|group=N}}
Reflecting on the album in Kittie: Origins/Evolutions (2017), Morgan said:
{{blockquote|"Honestly, I like a lot of the songs on Until the End. I don't know [anything] that I regret a lot. Listening back, I kinda maybe wish that we had done things a little bit differently in the studio. Maybe a different producer. Maybe even a different studio. Mind you,{{nbsp}}... it was a really fun, awesome recording process. We had a lot of fun, it was a really really great time."{{sfn|McCallum|2017|loc=46:39–47:04}}}}
Track listing
All songs written by Morgan Lander.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Until the End |year=2004 |type=booklet |publisher=Artemis Records |id=ATM-CD-51538 |last=Kittie}}
{{track listing
| headline = Standard release
| extra_column =
| title1 = Look So Pretty
| length1 = 5:29
| music1 =
| title2 = Career Suicide
| length2 = 3:55
| title3 = Until the End
| length3 = 4:13
| title4 = Red Flag
| length4 = 3:48
| title5 = Pussy Sugar
| length5 = 4:16
| title6 = In Dreams
| length6 = 3:15
| title7 = Into the Darkness
| length7 = 3:38
| title8 = Burning Bridges
| length8 = 3:07
| title9 = Loveless
| length9 = 2:08
| title10 = Daughters Down
| length10 = 3:40
| title11 = Into the Darkness
| note11 = Vocal Remix
| length11 = 3:45
| total_length = 41:20
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Japanese bonus tracks{{Cite AV media notes |title=Until the End |last=Kittie |year=2004 |type=booklet |publisher=Columbia Music Entertainment/Artemis Records |id=COCB-53244}}
| extra_column =
| title12 = Into the Darkness
| note12 = Aggro Vocal Verse
| length12 = 3:45
| title13 = Sugar
| note13 = Talking Voice Alt.
| length13 = 4:14
| total_length = 49:19
}}
Notes
- Additional arrangements on tracks 1 and 5 by Jennifer Arroyo
- Additional arrangements on tracks 1, 2, 4 to 7 and 11 by Mercedes Lander
Personnel
Personnel per liner notes.{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}Kittie
- Morgan Lander – guitars, vocals
- Jennifer Arroyo – bass
- Mercedes Lander – drums
- Lisa Marx – live guitar
Artwork
- Geoff Mack – artwork
- Morgan Lander – artwork concept
- Reinhold Scherer – photography
- Brett Weiss – layout design{{col-2}}
Production
- Steve Thompson – producer, mixing
- Ian Hatton – engineer
- Devin O'Connell – engineer
- Mike Lapierre – engineer
- Ted Jensen – mastering {{small|(at Sterling Sound)}}
- John Arraya – guitar technician
- John Magnum – drum technician
{{col-end}}
Charts
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Chart performance for Until the End ! scope="col"| Chart (2004) ! scope="col"| Peak |
| scope="row" |UK Independent Albums (OCC){{Cite web |title=Until the End {{!}} Official Charts |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/albums/kittie-until-the-end |access-date=June 29, 2023 |website=Official Charts Company |archive-date=June 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629080734/https://www.officialcharts.com/albums/kittie-until-the-end |url-status=live }}
| align="center" |34 |
|---|
| scope="row" |US Billboard 200
| align="center" |105 |
| scope="row" |US Top Independent Albums (Billboard){{Cite magazine |title=Kittie |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/kittie/ |url-status=live |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315160252/https://www.billboard.com/artist/kittie/ |archive-date=2023-03-15 |access-date=2023-03-15}}
| align="center" |4 |
Release history
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|+Release history for Until the End !Region !Label !Format !Date !Catalog # !Ref. |
| Europe
|{{flatlist|* Artemis
| rowspan="4" |CD |July 26, 2004 |RCD17017 |{{Sfn|Music Week|2004}} |
| United States
| rowspan="2" |Artemis | rowspan="2" |July 27, 2004 | rowspan="2" |ATM-CD-51538 |
| Canada |
| Japan
|August 25, 2004 |COCB-53244 |{{Cite web |title=Kitty {{!}} Until the End |url=http://columbia.jp/artemis/53244.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040902163106/http://columbia.jp/artemis/53244.html |archive-date=2004-09-02 |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=Columbia Music Entertainment |language=ja}} |
| Europe
|CD (digipak) |November 24, 2008 |MASS CD 1245 DG |
| Various
|LP |April 22, 2023 |MNK-LP-46873 |
Notes
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References
Citations
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- {{Cite news |last=Aberback |first=Brian |date=October 1, 2004 |title=The cat's meow of metal |page=14 |work=The Record |location=Hackensack |type=Music |id={{ProQuest|425840334}}}}
- {{Cite news |last=Aberback |first=Brian |date=May 12, 2006 |title=Kittie finds its way home; Without help from a label |work=The Record |type=Music |page=G16 |id={{ProQuest|426292863}}}}
- {{Cite magazine |last=Anon. |date=July 24, 2004 |title=New Releases: Pop |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/2004/Music-Week-2004-07-24.pdf |access-date=January 4, 2024 |magazine=Music Week |publisher=UBM plc |page=26 |via=worldradiohistory.com |ref={{harvid|Music Week|2004}} |archive-date=April 30, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240430021420/https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/2004/Music-Week-2004-07-24.pdf |url-status=live }}
- {{Cite magazine |last=Anon. |date=September 2004 |title=Breakdown |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NhnqJL2C06oC&dq=spin+kittie+until+the+end&pg=PA120 |magazine=Spin |volume=20 |issue=9 |page=120 |archive-date=April 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412004001/https://books.google.com/books?id=NhnqJL2C06oC&dq=spin+kittie+until+the+end&pg=PA120 |url-status=live |ref={{harvid|Spin|2004}} }}
- {{Cite news |last=Garcia |first=Juan Carlos |date=December 30, 2004 |title=Para Kittie, esta 'heavy' ser rockeras |trans-title=For Kittie, it's 'heavy' to be rockers |work=Reforma |language=es |page=9 |id={{ProQuest|307417335}}}}
- {{cite magazine |last=Gargano |first=Paul |date=October 2004 |title=Kittie: No End In Sight |url=https://archive.org/details/metal-edge-october-2004/page/42/mode/2up |magazine=Metal Edge |publisher=Dorchester Media, LLC |volume=50 |issue=6 |pages=42–45 |via=Internet Archive }}
- {{Cite news |last=Gloss |first=Megan |date=October 30, 2003 |title=Heavy metal rockers to play East Dubuque as part of U.S. tour |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lO1FAAAAIBAJ&dq=kittie+band+2003&pg=PA17&article_id=5173,6192972 |url-status=live |journal=The Telegraph-Herald |type=River Stages |page=5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428140703/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lO1FAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA17&dq=kittie+band+2003&article_id=5173,6192972&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjchqD__Mn-AhXOh1wKHbF1CJ0Q6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=kittie%20band%202003&f=false |archive-date=April 28, 2023 }}
- {{Cite news |last=Gonzalez |first=Nohemi |date=January 17, 2005 |title=Prende Kittie con su metal |trans-title=Set Kittie on fire with his metal |work=El Norte |language=es |location=Monterrey |page=4 |id={{ProQuest|311639430}}}}
- {{Cite magazine |last=Heimlich |first=Richard |date=November 2004 |title=Kittie: Sharpening Their Claws |url=https://archive.org/details/hitparadermagazi51unse_11/page/66/mode/2up?q=Kittie |journal=Hit Parader |publisher=Magma Publishing Group |volume=51 |issue=481 |pages=66–67 |via=Internet Archive }}
- {{Cite news |last=Jeckell |first=Barry |date=April 30, 2004 |title=Kittie a quartet again with new guitarist |page=10D |work=Argus Leader |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/243844490/?match=1&terms=Kittie%20a%20quartet%20again%20with%20new%20guitarist |url-access=subscription |via=newspapers.com |access-date=May 19, 2024 |archive-date=July 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724232114/https://www.newspapers.com/image/243844490/?match=1&terms=Kittie%20a%20quartet%20again%20with%20new%20guitarist |url-status=live }}
- {{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |last2=Perri|first2=David|author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 4: The '00s |publisher=Collector's Guide Publishing |year=2011 |location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada |isbn=9781-926592-20-6 |page=268}}
- {{Cite magazine |last=Ruskell |first=Nick |date=August 14, 2004 |title=Rated: Albums |magazine=Kerrang! |publisher=EMAP |issue=1018 |page=36}}
- {{Cite magazine |last=Strokes |first=Paul |date=August 21, 2004 |title=Volume / 7-Day Planner |magazine=Kerrang! |issue=1019 |page=54}}
- {{Cite magazine |last=Tillinghast |first=Lee |date=September 2004 |title=Kittie: Against the Grain |url=https://archive.org/details/hitparadermagazi00unse_10/page/54/mode/2up?q=Kittie |journal=Hit Parader |publisher=Magma Publishing Group |volume=51 |issue=478 |pages=54–55 |via=Internet Archive }}
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Audiovisual (AV) sources
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- {{cite AV media |people=Borowsky, Dennis (director) |title=Kittie: Until the End (Enhanced CD)|date=2004 |type=CD |publisher=Artemis Records/Rykodisc|location=Europe |ref={{harvid|Borowsky|2004}}}}
- {{cite AV media |people=McCallum, Rob (director) |title=Kittie: Origins/Evolutions |date=2017 |type=Motion picture |publisher=Lightyear Entertainment |location=Canada |ref={{harvid|McCallum|2017}}}}
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Further reading
- {{Cite news |last=Cuellar |first=Dulcinea |date=July 16, 2004 |title=Kittie growls once more onto stage at La Villa Real |pages=9F, 16F |work=The Monitor}}
- {{Cite web |last=Zulaica |first=Don |date=July 28, 2004 |title=liveDaily Interview: Morgan Lander of Kittie |url=http://www.livedaily.com/interviews/liveDaily_Interview_Morgan_Lander_of_Kittie-6854.html?t=6 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051122105532/http://www.livedaily.com/interviews/liveDaily_Interview_Morgan_Lander_of_Kittie-6854.html?t=6 |archive-date=2005-11-22 |access-date=2023-04-12 |website=LiveDaily}}
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lQiE0H4R8VM_K0Y4qTc3e064j5Nb2ifhU Until the End] on YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
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