🎤 Tim Baker – Artist Profile » Cirith Ungol Online

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(US) • Born Sat 27 Oct 1956 ♏ (69 years, 1 months, 9 days, 25241 total living days)

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The Orange Album ((unknown date) Aug 1978)
Frost and Fire (Sat 31 Jan 1981)
King of the Dead (Mon 02 Jul 1984)
Cirith Uncool / Sara’s Uncool ((unknown date) Dec 1985)
One Foot In Hell (Tue 12 Aug 1986)
White Tape Demo ((unknown date and month) 1987)
VENTURA the band ((unknown date and month) 1989)
Paradise Lost (Fri 23 Aug 1991)
Servants of Chaos (Sat 05 May 2001)
Witch’s Game (Fri 05 Oct 2018)
I’m Alive (Fri 25 Oct 2019)
Forever Black (Fri 24 Apr 2020)
Half Past Human (Fri 28 May 2021)
Dark Parade (Fri 20 Oct 2023)
Live at the Roxy (Fri 25 Apr 2025)

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Text: ~1986 • Photo: Feb 1982 or earlier

Name: Tim Baker
Instrument: Vocals
Residence: Outer Limits (in other words, Ventura)
Major Influences: Dante, Milton, Moorcock, Caligula
Musical Goals: Burn the words of chaos into the skull of every metalhead
Hobbies: Live gigs, recklessness, taekwondo
Favorite Bands: Any powerful metal by real men
Personal Goals: To rule the world or burn it down with a world
Message: The first pounding glory of ‘One Foot in Hell’ shall extinguish the horror of false metal once and for all.

Tim Baker (or Timothy Allen Baker or “Cookie monster” vocal style (Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music book)) was a roadie for the band ca. 1974-79, guest vocals at least 23 Apr 1977 – Aug 1979 and the vocals 🎤 1979 – 1992 and 2015 – now. Old official page was vocals from 1979 – 1993. Classmates were Robert Garven, Greg Lindstrom, Patrick Galligan, Jerry Fogle and Neil Beattie. Tim’s namesday is 24 Jan in the USA.

Unfortunately, as he was one of the most gifted vocalist ever to appear in the metal scene. Both he and his son Matt Baker are rock fans and can be found in the Cirith Ungol Facebook group and page. His son Matthew Baker or Rob had a MySpace site where he possibly runned The Cirith Ungol Legion, a Cirith Ungol-group, but a long time ago. My Familiy: Annette Tatlonghari, Adam Tatlonghari-Ferreria, Miranda, Leila Tatlonghari, Leilani Basila, brother of Dan, father of Matthew. Brothers Dan and Tim Baker were roadies.

He was at the meet and greet/signing session at Frost and Fire Fest (Sat 17 Oct 2015) in USA, Keep it True (Sat 30 Apr 2016) in Germany and officially returned to the stage at the Frost and Fire Fest II (Sat 08 Oct 2016) in USA.

I really liked Tim’s voice from the first. He was a roadie of ours when we were an instrumental band after the departure of our first singer Neal Beattie. I am not sure how it started but we let him try out on some of our songs and it seemed to fit our music perfectly. I encouraged him and during recording I was his best cheerleader always trying to get him to screech higher! Tim was a smoker and I think that his voice deteriorated as the albums went by. If you listen to “Frost and Fire” many said that he was screaming but he is actually singing. I feel that his voice was the sharpest and best on this album. As a matter of fact he reaches some pretty amazingly high pitches! I always liked singers with high voices like “Pavlov’s Dog” “Granicus”.

Robert Garven, Sleazegrinder interview

We tried out a number of singers, but nobody clicked until 1979, when Tim Baker, who was our head roadie at the time, tried singing lead on “Hype Performance”. That version is the first song on “Servants Of Chaos”.

Greg Lindstrom, BallBuster interview