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artist: Cirith Ungol
title: Live at the Roxy
year: 2025
genre: Heavy Metal
type: Album
label: Metal Blade Records
language: English
rel. date: 2025-04-25
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Full Stereo
runtime: 01:45:51
size: 261.45MB
rip date: 2025-04-29
source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/711511801
tracklist:
1 / 2
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1. Velocity (S.E.P.) 5:16
2. Relentless 4:25
3. Sailor on the Seas of Fate 7:31
4. Sacrifice 4:53
5. Looking Glass 4:33
6. Dark Parade 6:13
7. Distant Shadows 5:54
8. Down Below 5:28
2 / 2
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1. Atom Smasher 4:26
2. I'm Alive 5:16
3. Frost and Fire 3:47
4. Black Machine 4:19
5. Blood and Iron 4:02
6. Chaos Descends 4:48
7. The Frost Monstreme 5:24
8. Fire (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown cover) 2:52
9. Death of the Sun 3:56
10. Master of the Pit 7:25
11. King of the Dead 8:19
12. Join the Legion 7:04
release notes:
One of the world's most iconic music venues-the Sunset Strip's Roxy
Theatre-hosted a legendary 2024 gig by one of the world's most iconic
metal bands-Cirith Ungol. The one-night-only performance was an album
release show for the band's 2023 Dark Parade LP. It captured the lineup
at the height of its considerable powers, performing Dark Parade in its
entirely, along with a set of classic songs including "Join the Legion,"
"Frost and Fire," "Black Machine" and "Atom Smasher." The end result is
a stellar live album and DVD, band co-founder and drummer Rob Garven
saying, "I think we are playing better now than we did back in the day,
circa King of the Dead. Onstage I wear in-ear monitors and have felt
tears in my eyes when the music sounds so accurate to what we recorded
so many years ago!"
Covetable Live at the Roxy variants include the 20-song digital release;
a three-CD set (two CDs and a DVD) with an eight-page booklet; and a
two-vinyl, one DVD version in a gatefold format with an insert and
poster. Colored vinyl options, including red and white "demon blood
splatter" and a virulent green/black vinyl are highly collectible. The
DVD of the Roxy concert was directed by David Brodsky and Allison Woest
(Whitechapel, King Diamond, Clutch) of My Good Eye visuals, with music
production by Night Demon guitarist Armand John Anthony and Cirith
Ungol.
Cirith Ungol played the Roxy previously, on another landmark occasion:
"On January 19, 1983, with Bitch, Malice and Pandemonium," recalls
Garven. "Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel may have had something to do
with the show, as it was four bands from Metal Massacre 1, which was
released the previous year."
There was no choice other than the Roxy for Cirith Ungol to record this
momentous live collection. "It's owned by a Hollywood music legend, Lou
Adler, and next door to the famous Rainbow Bar and Grill. It's a
landmark Hollywood club, which includes the Whisky and The Starwood (now
gone) so every time we played one of these historic venues, it was a
special occasion," Garven says. "It was great to see many of our friends
and fans from all over the world at the show."
Cirith Ungol are thrilled that another Michael Whelan masterpiece,
"Demonslayer" is gracing the Live at the Roxy cover. Each studio album's
cover art is taken from the cover of a DAW Books edition of a book in
Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné saga; the art is by Michael
Whelan. The backstory on the Live at the Roxy art is classic: "Around
1984, Michael was at a fantasy convention in Los Angeles and came up to
Ventura for a visit. He brought this illustration 'Demonslayer' to my
parent's house, the location of our original band room, and we left it
on the staircase, and went out to dinner, not knowing that someday it
would grace another one of our album covers!"
The classic Cirith Ungol tracks played at the Roxy meshed perfectly with
Dark Parade songs, which drew raves from the packed crowd. In writing
Dark Parade's songs, vocalist and lyricist Tim Baker recalls, "Like the
best horror writers, our main goal has always been to make something
totally dark and doomy all the way through -- an unrelenting journey
into the particular chaos which is Cirith Ungol." That album garnered
press praise, including on that noted Dark Parade's "enormous pieces of
classic proto-metal, on par with and as vital as their early works."
Baker's inimitable, scorched nails-on-chalkboard voice has earmarked all
of the band's albums across the canyons of time, from their audacious
1981 debut Frost and Fire to their triumphant 2020 comeback Forever
Black, which followed a 29-year-long recording hiatus. Dark Parade's
singles, including "Velocity," offers a metallic soundtrack of societal
decay and environmental collapse that foreshadows nothing less than
total extinction. Despite the fantasy-inspired art on the band's albums
and their Tolkien-derived name -- Cirith Ungol stopped exploring sword
and sorcery-related themes in the mid-'80s. Most of the subjects they've
addressed since then have been far more real and frightening than any
ravenous make-believe creatures fighting sword-wielding warriors.
Cirith Ungol's Live at the Roxy holds its own against other legendary
live records. "The Who made an extremely powerful album with Live at
Leeds, and my favorite band of all time, Mountain, had several pretty
spectacular live albums. And 1993's Uriah Heep Live is another
outstanding live album! It's hard to capture accurately all the sound
and feeling of a live concert. I think these bands achieved that, and I
think our Live at the Roxy does also." Thrilled as they are about the
Live at the Roxy double album set and DVD, Cirith Ungol is already
looking forward to making a new record., as Garven concludes, "This will
make fans happy until our next devastatingly heavy seventh studio LP!"
internal notes:
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