Oracle is the second studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Kittie, released on November 12, 2001, through Artemis Records.

Oracle received generally mixed reviews from critics, who acknowledged Kittie's musical growth but felt that the album lacked originality or a distinct identity.

[7] Nevertheless, they began working on new material whilst out on the road, and during their tours in support of Spit, Kittie debuted the songs "Pain" and "Mouthful of Poison" live.

[5][9] Once touring wrapped up in February 2001, the band begun jamming new material together at Morgan and drummer Mercedes Lander's parents' house in London, Ontario.

[17][18] On July 1, 2001, the band performed their only concert for that month in Alberquerque, New Mexico with a then-unknown male guitarist, sparking rumours about her departure.

[19] On August 9, 2001, Artemis Records announced that Kittie would be continuing as a three piece (Bowman was not named in the statement), with Jeff Phillips, the band's guitar tech, filling in as a touring guitarist.

[23] In a 2001 interview with Guitar World, Morgan said: "We've never been ones for frivolous experimentation in the studio—we [Kitte] just [wanted] to make a straight-ahead metal record.

"[24] Morgan and bassist Talena Atfield recorded their parts "using, essentially, their live rigs"; a Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifer (occasionally an Egnater) and a Ampeg B5R amp, respectively.

[25] The recording of Oracle also marked the first collaboration between Kittie and Siegfried Meier, an assistant engineer who would go on to produce two of their later albums, In the Black (2009) and I've Failed You (2011).

[9] She also acknowledged a change in influence from their early days, stating, "Then we listened to bands like Nirvana, Silverchair, and Alice in Chains.

"[46] The closing track "Pink Lemonade", which is over ten minutes long, was compared to the Slipknot songs "Scissors" and "Iowa".

[32][47] Mercedes said that with the song, Morgan "wanted to kind of show that some things even if they look pretty and inviting sometimes have a darker ugly side to them.

If you're not feeling in your heart what you're putting in to music, it's not worth a thing-I'm all about integrity, and keeping things pure and true, the way you intended them to be.

[53] A music video for the song was released later that month; it was directed by Thomas Mignone, and "concerns the self-destructive consequences of greed".

[54] The single peaked at number 36 on Billboard's Active Rock chart,[55] whilst the video received heavy airplay on the MTV, MTV2, MTVX and MuchMusic channels.

[87] Writing for AllMusic, Bradley Torreano called Oracle "an average album by a promising band who needs to find a distinct identity".

[27] Similarly, Tom Moon of Rolling Stone wrote: "Kittie sound like they want to pursue harder extremes but can't decide whether to snicker or snarl, to play doomsayer or dominatrix.

"[36] Hit Parader gave the album a B− grade and wrote, "There's no question that this is a better effort in a technical and song-structure sense than [Spit ], but somehow it doesn't seem quite as satisfying".

[93] PopMatters praised the album's musicianship and Morgan Lander's vocals, but felt that "its music relies too much on metal formula".

described the album as "simply not bad", with much of it being "a seamless, streamlined execution of pretty unoriginal material" lacking in creative moments.

[90] Imran Ahmed of NME found Oracle to be "plain overbearing", and "a violent marriage of melody and brutality that makes for a highly uneasy listen".

[28] Q magazine criticized the album as "one-dimensional" and "uninspired",[91] whilst Ben Mitchell of Blender dismissed it as "Entirely dispensable".