Prior to the Fire is the second album by Canadian hard rock group Priestess. The album was produced by Dave Schiffman in Los Angeles and mixed by Adrian Popovich in Montreal. It was released in Canada on 20 October 2009 on Indica Records, and will be released in the United States in February 2010 on TeePee Records.Even though it was completed in the fall of 2008, the group's then-label, RCA Records, was reluctant to release the album as it was. Because they feared the album would not produce a good single, the company wanted the band to keep writing and recording until what they considered a potential hit single appeared. When it became clear that such a single, as RCA wanted it, was not forthcoming, the label promptly dropped the band (although they were allowed to take the record with them to another label). They signed thereafter with TeePee Records.When released in the U.S., it will come in two deluxe editions: both with two downloadable bonus tracks, but only one with an exclusive T-shirt.An unspecified number of 7 singles containing bonus material that didn't make it to the album will appear soon