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Cirith Ungol has composed over 300 songs, according to Robert Garven in the Iron Pages interview, 1994. Many of these songs are not officially released, and some are covers and some are originals. Some are rehearsals, practice or demo songs and some are live songs.

Line-ups
Instruments
Written by (Lyrics by)
Music by
Songs

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Feb 1970 – Apr(?) 71 (Titanic)

Line-up

Jerry Fogle (guitar) 1970 – 87
Greg Lindstrom (bass and vocals) 1970 – 82, 2015 – now
Robert Garven (drums and vocals) 1970 – May 92, 2015 – now
Pat Galligan (guitar and vocals) 1970 – 71

Songs

1970/71? – The Beatles – Get Back, and dozens of others
1970/71? – Creedence Clearwater Revival – ?
1970/71? – Jimi Hendrix (?) – Purple Haze

Apr 1971(?) – 75 (Cirith Ungol)

Line-up, Cirith Ungol Mark I (Fogle, Lindstrom & Garven)

Jerry Fogle (guitar)
Greg Lindstrom (bass and backing vocals)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

Songs

1971-1972
- Hand of Doom, Paranoid (Greg sings) (Black Sabbath cover )
- Jumpin’ Jack Flash (The Rolling Stones cover), (Greg sings)
- Johnny Winter (cover, live)
- The Hunter (Blue Cheer cover)
- Refried Boogie (Canned Heat cover)
- N.S.U., Spoonful (Cream cover)
- Rock ‘n’ Roll (Detroit cover)
- Dusty Track (Freedom cover)
- Inside Looking Out (Grand Funk Railroad cover)
- Smoking the Day Away (May Blitz cover)
- Mississippi Queen (Mountain cover)
- Louisiana Blues (Savoy Brown cover)
- Who Do You Love? (Quicksilver Messenger Service cover), original is from Bo Diddley (1956).
1973-1974
- Make It (Aerosmith cover)
- Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll (Blue Öyster Cult cover)
- Breadfan, Whiskey River, Crash Course in Brain Surgery (Budgie cover)
- Roll A Rocket (Hard Stuff cover)
- Ain’t Gonna Take No More (Highway Robbery cover)
- Go, I’m Never Gonna Let You (Skid Row cover)
- Jury, Keepin’ Time (Trapeze cover)
- Gonna Creep Up On You, Return Of The Farmer’s Son, Vagabonds Of The Western World, (Thin Lizzy cover)
- Sinner (Ursa Major cover)
197?
- Evil (Cactus cover)
- ? – (Jimi Hendrix cover)
- Gambler Gambler (ELF cover)
- Search and Destroy (Iggy & The Stooges cover)
- Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers cover)
- ? – (Spontaneous Combustion cover)
- Worse Things Waiting
1974 – Rock ’n’ Roll Hooker (1972/73), Radiation Blues (1972/73) (Greg or Rob sings), Rollin On (all of them“which only the lyrics survive”, Greg)
1974 – Animal Passion (1974/77), Crack of Dawn, Flesh Dart (written by Garven, 1974/75),
1975 – Shelobs Lair (words by Greg L) (Greg: Around this time we made a conscious decision to play all original material and our songs … would begin to replace the cover songs.)

Other compilation records:

Various Rehearsals & 4 Track Demos (1975-1978)
Cirith Uncool / Sara’s Uncool (Dec 1985) rehearsal, not released
Live (1996) semi bootleg
Servants of Chaos (05 May 2001) rare compilation album
Brutish Manchild (02 May 2020) single
Half Past Human (28 May 2021) newly recorded versions of 1970’s rarities
I’m Alive (25 Nov 2019) live album

1975 – 76

Line-up, Cirith Ungol Mark II (Beattie, Fogle, Lindstrom & Garven)

Neal or Neil Beattie or Terry Dactyl (vocals) 1975/76
Jerry Fogle (guitar)
Greg Lindstrom (bass and backing vocals)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

Songs

1975(?) –
1976 – Tight Teen (written by Garven, 1975/76), Bad Scene (written by Garven?), Half Past Human (A Quarter to Ape) (words by Greg L), Route 666 (words by Greg L)

23 Apr 1977

Line-up

Tim Baker
Jerry Fogle
Greg Lindstrom
Robert Garven

Songs

I’m Alive (Demo, written by Lindstrom)
A Little Fire (Take 2 on release or Demo, written by Lindstrom)
Edge Of A Knife (Take 2 on the record or Demo, written by Lindstrom)

1977 – 78 (as 1972 – 75)

Line-up

Jerry Fogle (guitar)
Greg Lindstrom (bass and backing vocals)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

“Orange tape” – Jul/Aug 1978

Line-up

Jerry Fogle (Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitars)
Greg Lindstrom (Bass, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitars, Lead Vocals, Background Vocals)
Robert Garven (Drums, Percussion, Lead Vocals, Background Vocals)
Tim Baker (Lead vocals on High Speed Love, Background vocals)
Neil Beattie (Lead vocals on We Know You’re Out There)

Songs

1978 Jul – Bite Of The Worm (Lindstrom), Witchdance (Lindstrom)
1978 Jul/Aug – Show You All (Lindstrom), High Speed Love (Lindstrom), Neck Romancer (Lindstrom), Use Me (Lindstrom), King Tut Uncommon (Lindstrom and Garven), Atom Smasher (Lindstrom, Garven and Fogle), We Know You’re Out There, Witsucker (Lindstrom), Route 666 (Lindstrom and Garven)②

1978 – 79

Songs

1977 – Death of the Sun. This was written already in 1977 by Robert Garven, and Greg Lindstrom in Iron Wolf. Or 1978 with Greg by Interview with Iconic Heavy Rock/Doom Legends. (written by Lindstrom and Garven)
Brutish Manchild, Am On Rúte, Back In ’51 (Masters of the Airwaves cover), Cirith Ungol (written by Lindstrom and Garven?)
1978 Sep – Feeding The Ants (written by Garven)
1979 Mar – Last Laugh, Hype Performance
1979 Sep – Frost and Fire (written by Lindstrom)
1979 Dec – The Twitch, Better Off Dead (written by Lindstrom), Eyes
1979 – What Does It Take (written by Lindstrom)
1978/9 – Finger Of Scorn (written by Lindstrom)
197? – Ferrarri 308QV On Dyno At 8000 RPM

1979 – 80

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals) 1979 – May 92, 2015 – now
Jerry Fogle (guitar)
Greg Lindstrom (bass and backing vocals)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

Album 1 “Frost and Fire”, 31 Jan 1981

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jerry Fogle (guitar)
Greg Lindstrom (guitar, keyboards and backing vocals), he left summer 1982
Michael “Flint” Vujea (credited, but does not play on the album) 1980 – 87, 2015
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

after 31 Jan 1981

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jerry Fogle (guitar, “Greg & Jerry playing dueling lead”)
Greg Lindstrom (guitar, keyboards and backing vocals)
Michael “Flint” Vujea
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

1980 – 82

Songs

1980 Mar – Darkness Weaves, Maybe That’s Why (written by Lindstrom)
1980 Jul – Ill Met In Lankhmar
1980 Aug – Return To Lankhmar
1980 Sep – 100 MPH (written by Lindstrom)

1982

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jerry Fogle (guitar)
Michael “Flint” Vujea (bass)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

Album 2 “King of the Dead”, 02 Jul 1984

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jerry Fogle (guitar)
Michael “Flint” Vujea (bass)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

1982 – 87

Songs

1983(?) – Black Machine, Master Of The Pit, King Of The Dead (written by Garven), Toccato In Dm (Johann Sebastian Bach cover)
1985 Apr – Obsidian (written by Lindstrom – Lindstrom solo after he quit)
1985 Nov – Chaos Descends, Song A, Nadsokor (written by Garven), One Foot in Hell (1975/6), Doomed Planet (written by Garven)
1986(?) – Blood and Iron, The Fire, War Eternal

Album 3 “One Foot Is Hell”, 12 Aug 1986

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jerry Fogle (guitar)
Michael “Flint” Vujea (bass)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

01 Jun 1987

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jimmy Barraza (guitar) 01 Jun 1987 – 91, 2015 – Sep 2023
Michael “Flint” Vujea (bass)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

1987 Songs

1987 – The Chaos Trilogy (Chaos Rising, Fallen Idols, Paradise Lost), all three written by Baker, ended up on the release 1991.

Producing Paradise Lost, 1991? – Aug? 1991

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jim Barraza (guitar)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)
Joe Malatesta (guitar, vocals) 1991
Robert L. Warrenburg (bass, vocals) 1991

Songs

1991(?) – Join the Legion (written by Baker), The Troll (written by Joe Malatesta), Fire (Arthur Brown cover), Heaven Help Us (Robert Warrenburg), Before the Lash (written by Baker), Go It Alone (Prophecy cover 1985/6/7, re-written by Baker)

They are full members recording and finished Paradise Lost. Suddenly Malatesta and Warrenburg quitted and before they had covers of PL. Vern Green stepped in. “Members signed a three-record deal in 1990 on the Restless label, formerly Enigma”.

Album 4 “Paradise Lost”, 23 Aug 1991

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jim Barraza (guitar)
Vern Green (listed, but not playing) Jan 1991 – May 1992 (?)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)
Joe Malatesta (guitar, already quit) 1991
Robert L. Warrenburg (bass, already quit) 1991

Live, Dec 1991

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jim Barraza (guitar)
Vern Green (bass)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

Jan 1992? – May 1992

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Vern Green (bass)
Michael Johnson (guitar) 1992
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

Music video

Join the Legion (video)

2000?

Gerrit Philipp Mutz (vocal) – Sacred Steel/Dawn of Winter

Bart: The “reunion” which almost happened some years ago is truth. Around the millennium shift, the band did intend to reunite, but Tim Baker (vocals) wasn’t interested in that point of time according to Greg in an interview. Gerrit Mutz was offered to take hand of the vocals, but he said no, because he could never replace Tim.

2015 signing session

Line-up

Tim Baker
Robert Garven
Greg Lindstrom
Michael “Flint” Vujea

at Keep it True Festival

2016 signing session

Line-up

Tim Baker
Robert Garven

at Keep it True Festival

2016? reunion rehearsal

Line-up

Robert Garven
Jim Barraza
Jarvis Leatherby
Brent Woodward

Songs

I’m Alive
Join The Legion

Episode #27 – The Story of Cirith Ungol – Part 3

2016

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jim Barraza (guitar)
Jarvis Leatherby (bass and backing vocals) 2015 – now
Greg Lindstrom (guitar and backing vocals)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

First live from 1991 (studio and live) or 1992 (music video).

May 2018

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jim Barraza (guitar)
Jarvis Leatherby (bass and backing vocals)
Armand Anthony (guitar session) 2018
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

Single “Witch’s Game”, 05 Oct 2018

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jim Barraza (guitar)
Greg Lindstrom (guitar and backing vocals)
Jarvis Leatherby (bass and backing vocals)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

Songs

2018 Sep – Witch’s Game

Album 5 “Forever Black”, 24 Apr 2020

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jim Barraza (guitar)
Jarvis Leatherby (bass and backing vocals)
Matt Baker (bass session on demos) 13 Oct 2019
Tom Malone (bass session on demos and live) 2019, 2020, Keep it True 2023
Greg Lindstrom (guitar and backing vocals)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

Songs

Sweet and Steel (early Legions Arise demo) (Garven)
The Call, Legions Arise (Garven), The Frost Monstreme (Lindstrom), The Fire Divine (Lindstrom), Stormbringer (Baker), Fractus Promissum (Baker), Nightmare (Baker), Before Tomorrow (Baker), Forever Black (Baker)

Album 6 “Dark Parade”, 20 Oct 2023

Line-up

Tim Baker (vocals)
Jim Barraza (guitar)
Jarvis Leatherby (bass and backing vocals) 2015 – now
Greg Lindstrom (guitar and backing vocals)
Robert Garven (drums and backing vocals)

Songs

Demos are recorded Nov 2022 or earlier
Velocity S.E.P. (first live at Keep It True 2023), Relentless, Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Sacrifice, Looking Glass, Dark Parade, Distant Shadows, Down Below