Where is the LOVE for Cirith Ungol?

Details. However, if part of the plan was to trick people into purchasing who liked Frazetta, it worked! I liked it so much I'm going to buy it again. I should have never lost it.

But back to Cirith Ungol! They simply do not get the credit they deserve in the historical tree of doom rock. There was great honor in being shelled frequently and not diverting from the course. They stubbornly polished their attribute as an aquired taste.

Lizzy Borden perhaps do not need as much love. I regularly see reissues of some of their LPs in rekkid stores.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000008QMV/qid=1110158523/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-7288918-3236029?v=glance&s=music

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000070SO/qid=1110158886/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-4204839-3895845?v=glance&s=music

also:
http://homepage1.nifty.com/hawkwind/japanesesite/discography/hawklords.jpg

General disrespect for indie metal in early 80's. Moorcock-themed cover art. Daring to be taken for fools. Many reasons, take your pick.

C'mon now -- those Cirith covers were also used on classic Moorcock paperbacks. What did Frazetta ever do for metal? Molly Hatchet? Nazareth? Danzig?

The love for Cirith is in the bottom of a murky bong. They were the pet band of the best '80s weirdo metal fanzine ever, Indianapolis' SUCK CITY.

Their business situation wasn't the worst; they appeared on Metal Massacre I with Metallica, Ratt, and Yngwie. They were on Enigma throughout the 80s. They were powerful, but hopelessly anti-trend.

The love for Cryptic Slaughter is in a Nuclear Assault vs. Celtic Frost thread that needs reviving. That's where Repulsion love goes, too.

There's a 2XCD early Cirith compilation out with the original rich thubby analog keyboard parts in every song. Yeah!!!

There you go. Art, pulps, mags, Kultur und Kitsch.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Frank+Frazetta%22+%22heavy+metal%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N

And not neglecting Michael Whelan, the poor man's Frazetta.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Michael+Whelan%22+%22heavy+metal%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=40&sa=N

Anyway, I read a very enthusiastic review of Cirith's King of the Dead in an oooold fanzine this morning. It basically said screw the Kerrang! review, those guys are idiots and this rules, then went on to compare the guitar playing to old Mercyful Fate. (pre-Melissa old) So there was definitely a funky true core of metal freaks that knew what was up. Same people who supported Manilla Road, Avatar, and eventually Saint Vitus.

I think that nails it. Probably with a fondness for Reagers edition Vitus.

actually, the one in the pink vinyl sleeve, the matador one, was done by new yorker cartoonist jack ziegler.it's a cartoon of bunny-shaped brains on a plate. the one with the animal in the fez (a duck i think) was on blackjack.

http://www.rockhard.de/images/cirith_ungol_onefootinhell_k.jpg

holy shit this is the greatest band i've ever heard

how come no one ever told me about this band wtf. this is amazing.

Yeah I was rocking Frost & Fire last week, they totally bring it.

damn dood you're always on top of it. im listening to king of the undead really loud its kicking my ass.

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/9065/cirithungolkingcd300eh8.jpg

It's cos teenage D&D nerd me was into stuff like this when my mates were getting into Ratt.

the chorus bass is so thick and new wave sounding. the riffs are so doomy.

im not giving up on you, cirith ungol

I've been listening to these guys & Sadist almost every day for a month

high five bro

seriously chak it's weird that you would start this thread! I never knew about CU back in the day, I'd see their records in the stacks but never listened, and then a month ago I was like "I'm gonna check that shit out" and BAM, they rule

dudes are way bitter about how shit panned out for them though

all metal dudes seem too. i guess one dude ended up in angry samoans according to original post. ned raggett would love these guys!

Hahah, I'm listening to them now! YouTube is handy that way.

i put this album in leonardo. you need to hear the album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqUYzQxBwG4 <---lol awesome

Leonardo? You gots to tell me what that is.

go over to noise dudes, ned. you'll see it.

How handy. Thanks!

I can't understand why the AMG reviews are still so sniffy about them. Dude's got a great voice, reminds me of Geddy Lee's lower register.

Fifty bucks on Amazon.

Formerly Elric

woah! they sound WAY better on vinyl anyway! frost and fire has been leonardo'd !!

I miss Cirith Ungol. The only time I ever got ripped off in a trade was when I traded two of their albums for Rotting Corpse's "Dreaming With the Dead."
Goddamn Danish motherfucker! I guess it was punishment for willingly parting myself with my CU.

WAUHLOWAAAH[1] THE BLACK MACHINE
FILLS YOUR HEAD WITH EVIL DREAMS!
FILLS YOUR HEAD WITH BUTSOBAYAAAA[2]
WHEN ESCAPE YOUR ONE DESAYYYAAAAAAAH

Classic, oh yes. Some day I will have that shit in my collection once more. These guys were huge with everyone I knew who was into the doom thing. Like Candlemass were our Iron Maiden, Cirith Ungol were our Judas Priest.
We're living on a doooooooooomed planet!

[1] Uh, I never looked it up on the lyrics sheet, but it sounds -nothing- like "c'mon and ride" like it does later in the song.
[2] Uh.

Just starting to listen to Frost And Fire now. Very excellent Sad Wings Of Destiny-style stuff. I like this a bunch.

oysten you can listen to them today!

Rotting Corpse's "Dreaming With the Dead."

if i may pedant: RIPPING corpse, ya mean. rotting corpse were from texas and only put out demo tapes until relatively recently.

Great band. Some crazy guy on the Internet introduced me to them, for which I am forever grateful. I knew someone who played in a new band with Greg Lindstrom, so when I saw them live I had Greg autograph my CD copy of King of the Dead.

rotting christ is good too! jeff thats AWESOME!

The 2-for-1 CD I have of Frost / King is beyond awesome, even though it's ripped from crackly vinyl. The one guy I met who had a vinyl copy of Frost & Fire for trade was subsequently arrested for raping 8 year old Muslim girls. I know it's irrelevant, I just wanted to mention it.

Uh.

the thread that keeps on giving!

This thread now makes me sorry for Cirith Ungol. Some day a member will be googling and this is what they'll find. The giving away of their music, royalty free, and talk about a dribble of fans who are crazy or rapists.

What a morale builder.

first off the shit is outta print. secondly they are in successful punk band angry samoans.

Admirable but not quite. Cirith Ungol are not the Angry Samoans. Even the Angry Samoans aren't in the Angry Samoans. The current band is Metal Mike Saunders, drummer Bill Vockeroth and a couple of hack sidemen.

One of the original guitarists for the old Samoans, PJ Galligan, was in Cirith Ungol very early on. That was what he told me many years ago. And that was before they started making records. Apparently their first name was Titanic.

Here.

And here's a nice piece.

oops

Metal Blade re-released that stuff on CD in '99. I only see "One foot in hell" for sale on MB's website now though. I have seen the first two records in stores as late as a few months ago though.

The second is a good interview with the drummer who was the band's lynchpin, according to him. Anyway, he mentions Greenworld who backed their first record and then screwed them over. I recall I bought my copies of Frost and Fire and Motley Crue's first directly from Greenworld. At the time I thought Cirith Ungol was revolutionary stuff. And then you get middle-aged and you can only remember that you felt that way, not how it felt.

IM FEELING THAT WAY RIGHT NOW!

Hey, we aren't crazy/rapists! I think. But the guy who introduced me to them (he sent me an MP3 of "Master of the Pit" with the note "this is the heaviest stuff ever") was an Alan Moore-looking neopagan who claimed to live in a commune somewhere in Washington. Nice guy, don't get me wrong, but a little on the weird side. Great taste in music, though!

Also, the copy I have is the Metal Blade reissue, totally legal and sounds pretty good.

Loving King of the Dead!!!!

As well you should. That proves you have ears and cognitive reasoning abilities.

Are Manilla Road this good?

well, they're really fucking good. but in a more epic way. people'll tell you to check out crystal logic first but i actually recommend their 1980 album, invasion - a little rougher, less proggy and you got an all-time classic in "street jammer."

if you do want to jump in hip-deep, though, open the gates is my personal favorite these days. rougher than c. logic, a little thrashy.

actually, just check out open the gates unless you're into 70s-ish heavy metal that sounds kinda basementy.

Well, I'm prog as fuck (I saw Dream Theater as a youngster!), and amazon had Crystal Logic for cheaper, so I've just gone for that one. Will keep an eye for the others, though. Thanks.

holy crap the Manilla Road myspace site is amazing

finally got paradise lost, the disclaimed last album. it's alright. you know. apparently the label that did this reissue (noble rot) also did one foot in hell and frost and fire in 2007. which will be nice to get because cassettes ain't gonna last forever.

Awesome!!

I FEEL IT BURNING
AND I FEEL THE FREEZE
THE FROST, THE FIRE
IT BURNS INSIDE OF ME

haven't heard much else from this band but frost and fire is a pretty bitchin' album

take it to i \m/ metal

u mutha

The Lamp of Thoth's cover of "Frost and Fire" is also pretty great, in a trad/doom way.

Listening to "One Foot In Hell," going for a hat trick.

j3ff t wrote about cirith ungol in his Decibel column

I bought the Servant of Chaos comp some time ago (more or less when I discovered Manilla Road's Invasion) and found it irresistably weird. First two albums are great and now sound fresher than a lot of other contemporary stuff, and the singing was spectacular too: impossible for me to understand all the hate.

the pre-Frost & Fire stuff on the recent Servants of Chaos reissue truly is some of the weirdest shit I've ever heard in my life. These guys have basically become one of my favorite bands, they're just so bizarre & great.

Was there ever a thread for Manilla Road and the sorta stuff Shadow Kingdom's always reissuing? Where is a place with people talking about Slauter Xtroyes?

the rolling metal thread mentions a fair bit of that. shadow kingdom takes a fair bit of my money every year

Where is a place with people talking about Slauter Xtroyes?

I'll pretty much talk about them anywhere.

Manilla Road's Crystal Logic just getting reissued, anyone who doesn't have it better get it.

Any if you guys heard Sarcofagus from Finland? It's almost more 70s heavy rock sounding, still really cool stuff. Especially "Envoy of Death."

Also, this is a pretty good all-purpose obscure old metal thread:

Budgie -- Diamond Head -- Obscure Heavy Metal (RFI)

got it. and the other reissue too. according to bill magill i talk about manilla road on the metal threads way too much

He's wrong. Anything that breaks up the "just downloaded the new promo of..." torrent is cool w/me.

posts that v much fit dn (the OP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXad-fBSncE is my favourite metal song

HE IS THE HERO OF THE ATOM AGE
BORN IN A TEST TUBE, RRRAISED IN A CAGE