Homages

A list of posts that thank, salute, salute, hails, greets, hymn, shirt, thanks, namedrops or any other related connection. Have endless discussion about adding the whole band page or just a chapter of this Homages. Now we have those bands, except these:

• Cirith Ungol has covered other band
• other band has covered Cirith Ungol
• other band had supposed to covered Cirith Ungol
• Cirith Ungol has credited these bands on the album
• member has also other band or side project of Cirith Ungol
• Band is somehow related in Ventura county

45 Grave

see the Angry Samoans

Aquilla

Kacpereczek Kuczymorda, Tim Baker and Karol Konarski, 17 Jun 2024

“Chaos descended upon Black Silesia, and our troops were there to witness! An amazing show from Cirith Ungol and a great privilege to meet the legendary Tim Baker in person ⚔

With strength regained, it’s time to record vocals for the upcoming LP. Stay tuned for further updates.”

Bandcamp, Aquilla @ IG, profesor.gacie @ IG

Bestial Desolation

Karol Zetem, Rob, Tim, 16 Jun 2024

“Best gig of the whole festival! Thanks for great conversation after the show!” – Karol

FB

Bitch

1. Metal Blade Records – MBR 1001: various artist Metal Massacre 1 (1982). Featured one song with Live for the Whip.
2. Metal Blade Records – MBR 1002: Bitch – Damnation Alley EP.

The second record with “Damnation Alley” after v/a Metal Massacre 1 (1982) on Metal Blade Records.

BetsyBBand @ FB

Bitch the band @ web (not secure in July 2024)

The Budos Band

• Shattered Winds

Has Cirith Ungol t-shirt, left on saxophone

The Budos Band @ bandcamp

Cardinals Folly

Watching through a pristine quality live stream of our Chicago show at the magnificent @reggieslive during the previous tour… Deranged ‘Em! Should be online soon. 🔥⛓️🗡️🇺🇲

Once again I want to thank Matthew Hopkins and Holden Crow from @zipper_wi for an excellent tour and company.

Meanwhile, we act like bands nowadays do – ghastly and awful – we announce that we’ll make an announcement soon …

Cardinals Folly @ bandcamp

Cathedral

• Forest of Equilibrium (1991)

Cathedral band @ bandcamp

Cattle Decapitation

Throwback Thursday with Travis Ryan from Cattle Decapitation

Cattle Decapitation @ bandcamp

Darkthrone

• F.O.A.D. (2007)

Fenriz: Most beautiful… never gave that much thought, I think the album front cover of the first Cirith Ungol and also the second is very beautiful.

Darkthrone official @ FB, FB @ Finger of Scorn

Down

Down – Sep 21st, 1995, Deep Ellum Live, Dallas, TX (better known as Pantera with the vocal)

Down @ web

Dycondra

See the Wicked Lester.

Early Moods

Tim Baker, 2 of the Early Moods members, Jim Barraza

Early Moods @ Bandcamp, IG, FB

Exumer

Throwback Thursday with Mem Von Stein from Exumer

Exumer band @ bandcamp

Exumer official @ bandcamp

Filthgrave

Keep It True Rising IV with Arild Bendixen from Filthgrave. He likes Cirith Ungol, Nasty Savage, Hellwitch (links to Night Demon), Crimson Glory etc. Nb, I guess he was a little bit tired and drunk 🙂 I forgot to take picture of the signing.

Gates of Slumber

The band are fans of Cirith Ungol and they are wearing a CU shirt in the music video for their song Angel of Death.

This shirt is being weared in the music video for The Gates of Slumber – Angel of Death. Rob/Greg (?) appreciates that in an interview. The band The Lamp of Thoth can also be seen in this or a similar shirt.

A kneeling skeletons-logo patch is being weared by The Gates of Slumber in their music video for Ice Worm. The band is known to be big Ungolfans. Also see the Falcon (album)-page for a link to Karl Simon (Gates of Slumber)’s Falcon-review!

Simon’s review of the S/T Falcon album on Hellride Music forum! – Falcon

Vocalist and guitarist Karl Simon is also fan of Falcon. He gave their debut album 10/10 in his review at Hellride Music (archive).

Right off the bat, what can I say? You take Perry Grayson, guitarist of Destiny’s End, who also handles the vocal duties, Darin McCloskey of Pale Divine, and Greg Lindstrom of Cirith Ungol, a lot of talent on one record. The how’s and why’s of the band forming passed me by, but to be frank I could give a damn why; I’m just glad that they did!

The warm old school tones and classic 70’s metal vibe are thick on this disk. At times I swear this is a lost Ungol record.

‘Downer’, the opening cut comes out of the gate like a song off Frost and Fire with a rocked out metal riff, and vocals that set a mood the likes of which I haven’t heard on a record in a long time. Through the songs progress there are hints of Black Sabbath, vintage Pentagram and even a tinge of Thin Lizzy, excellent lead work (as if one expected anything less).

It’s fitting that the third cut is a tribute to Phil Lynott – as Perry conjures up Robbo and Gorham to play the opening lick in true Lizzy form. Bobby Liebling guests on this song for a super effect. Just before the solo there is a heavy break that I just can’t get over. It just doesn’t get much better than this. And after the lead back to the haunting opening runs. Fuckin A. Super well written, a song that you could listen to for an hour and not get tired of it once.

The Crying of Lot 246 brings us some doomed tones 70’s style followed by verses that are melodic and bombastic in turns. And I failed to mention that there is a nice layer of keys under this too, not enough that you’d even notice it, I didn’t until listening to it again, a nice atmospheric wash, like what Ungol would have done.

Throwback is a slice of vintage 70’s metal that certain Swedes would kill to be able to crank out. Killer lyrics that reference Vitus and Penta-classic songs. For some reason I keep thinking about Baker’s vocals on “Edge of the Knife” all through this. This song is the deserving heir to that one.

A nice cover of Bang’s Redman follows. But you know, as good as this is I’d have rather heard another original.

The mood changes here as Lindstrom’s material takes center stage, I swear to god that Tim Baker is singing this song! Jesus Christ a band like this is needed today. “I’m Attila the Hun – On Wheels!” The Ungol connection, as you’ve read is strong here, and I hope that I don’t have to apologize for this, it’s in no way a negative! Since getting this I’ve been on a fucking Cirith Ungol rampage. “Route 666” follows this form and like “Frost and Fire” manages to get you fucking raging – I’ll bet this band fucking kills everything live. I notice Greg picks up the guitar for some leads on these songs? Attention bassists on the west coast: get your head out of your ass and beg to join this band! For the love of God.

Now my favorite song on this damn thing: Shelob’s Lair. I’m convinced that after seeing me headbang while on the computer my family wants to have me comitted. And maybe they should do just that. “Slay that bitch.” You know prior to hearing this I was really sort of disillusioned with things, but there are still songs worth hearing.

Half Past Human, a tale of degenerated human kind in the future. And as I type this, I can’t tell you which song I like better, this or Shelob’s Lair! To carry on more with this review would be pointless.

To sum it up: this is fucking god. It’s like Cirith Ungol came back from the dead, and that aint a bad thing at all! In fact it’s all that I had wished for an more from this. Many albums will be mentioned in “album of the year” threads from here to hell; this one should be on everyone, if it isn’t you know that the list is bogus. I hope that this band will be around for years to come! Cheers guys!!

10/10 x 10 to the tenth power
I’m buying my t-shirt now.

Source

Gates of Slumber @ bandcamp

The Gates of Slumber @ bandcamp

Hawkwind / Lemmy

See the Murder One.

Herzel

• Unis Dans La Glorie (2015)

Herzel music @ bandcamp

Hirax

Hirax @ bc

HYD

From 1986-1989.

I ‘discovered’ Cirith Ungol in 1982. I was in the US Navy, stationed in Florida, a local music shop had a little metal magazine, unfortunately I do not remember the name… But it was a magazine from California, may have been associated with Metal Blade? Anyways, they had picture of the Frost and Fire album cover, with Elric, and I had already read all the Elric saga, so it caught my eye immediately. But I had to go several months before actually hearing them! I finally found the FaF album 1/2 a year or so later, and of course, it was not as heavy as the article had talked it up, and the vocalist… well anyways… Meanwhile the next few years saw me getting into Manowar, Raven, Mercyful Fate, etc… When King of the Dead came out, I corresponded a few times with Robert Garven. By then I was out of the Navy and was putting together a band of my own, playing bass at the time. Most serious metalheads I knew back then did NOT care much for Cirith Ungol when I played it for them. They usually dug the music but the vocals were usually just too bad/weird for them… (these generally didn’t like Mercyful Fate either…). 30+ years later, I’m still flying the CU flag! I wear one of my CU shirts regularly, and I still get asked about them, and still not many metalheads know them. I try to turn my band members on to them but they don’t like the vocal much. Nevertheless, I continue to jam to the brilliant music that Jerry (and Greg), Flint, Rob, and Tim made, and Cirith Ungol continues to be a major influence/inspiration to me and my own music.

• Steve Johnson – bassist/vocalist. Later on the band Omega Thesis
• Mike Smith – guitars
• John Covington – drums. Later on the band Solitude Aeternus and Omega Thesis
• bandcamp, archive (1986-89)

Steve Johnson has continued with Omega Thesis (1989-late nineties) and Of Deities And Dust.

The KLF

• Cirith Ungol were disbanded in May 1992 – “I sold all our equipment and my drums paid off our bills and Cirith Ungol was officially deceased.”. So CU was frustration for May 1992. On 14 May 1992, the KLF announced their immediate retirement from the music industry and the deletion of their back catalogue. So The KLF was glad for May 1992.
• The KLF has the single “America: What Time Is Love?” with vocalist Glenn Hughes. He was member of e.g. Trapeze and Black Sabbath. Cirith Ungol has covered their song Jury and Keepin’ Time (Trapeze) and Hand of Doom (Black Sabbath).
• Glenn Hughes was also a member of Deep Purple. Michael Moorcock’s story about Deep Purple’s Stormbringer (1974), Cirith Ungol’s Stormbringer (2020) and Frost and Fire’s (1981) cover (https://cirithungol.org/media/elric-6-stormbringer/).
• Nick Coler worked with The KLF, Tokyo Blade, Angel Witch, Zodiac Mindwarp, Alice Cooper, etc. on e.g. Metal Blade, and so on.
• Falcon (Greg Lindstrom of Cirith Ungol) has also the song “Elfland’s Daughter”. Jimmy Cauty of The KLF has painted the cover “The King Of Elfland’s Daughter” (1977).
• The band name was Cirith Ungol. They took their name from the place Cirith Ungol, and who was the tower that Sam rescued Frodo from. The name Cirith Ungol means Sindarin for Spider’s Cleft or Pass of the Spider, from cirith (“cleft, pass”) and ungol (“spider”). Cirith Ungol is the bleak place where Frodo and Samwise fight the giant spider Shelob in Tolkien’s second installment in the trilogy, The Two Towers. Jimmy Cauty of The KLF has painted “Lord Of The Rings” (1976). Cirith Ungol’s lyrical approach was profoundly influenced by the high fantasy literature of J.R.R. Tolkien (from whose Hobbit and Lord of the Rings opus they derived their name).
• Night Demon (Jarvis of Cirith Ungol) – Year of the Demon (2022) has the the art work of Stonehenge. Cirith Ungol visited Stonehenge. Also, correct me if I was wrong, but I think it was the typeface is Stonehenge by Albie Fiore, seen on Citadel Miniatures. Adopted by Formatt for dry-transfer lettering and shown in their 1974 catalog as Stonehenge. Jimmy Cauty of The KLF has painted “Stonehenge” (1978).
• Rob of Cirith Ungol: In the Moorcock books the CHAOS sign is described as a symbol with many arrows pointing in all directions symbolizing the many possibilities of CHAOS! The symbol of LAW was one arrow pointing up. We liked the idea of CHAOS and I designed the logo based on my readings of the book. The whole thing about good and evil, chaos versus law, is a never ending struggle and we felt our music had the same duality about it. The KLF has also law/order and chaos, and inspired by The Illuminatus Trilogy.
• Cirith Ungol has pyramid, The KLF has pyramid.

Kryptos

Nolan Lewis

Indian metal.

• kryptos india @ linktr.ee
• kryptos india @ bandcamp

Lofi Dungeon Rock

Recorded in an abandoned chemical factory basement, Undisclosed Location USA, March 1979

Nate Towle – Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Drums, Mixing

• YT – Master of the Pit song 1
• YT – Master of the Pit song 2

Megahurtz30

my favourite Cirith Ungol song. I just had to do the cover ! Sorry about using my voice, but i asked many singers and they where either too busy or didn’t even respond, and since i had this waiting for a long time i decided to sing as well. This one took quite a bit of work..

YT – Chaos Rising

Masacre

@mxmffest
https://masacremetaloficial.bandcamp.com/

The Mentors

see the Angry Samoans

Mindwars

Mike Alvord continued from Holy Terror.

Mike Alvord

Mindwars official

Mork

Legends. Cheers, Cirith Ungol 🔥🤝🏻 #mork #cirithungol #metal #blackmetal #truehaldenblackmetal #wacken #heavymetal #doommetal #legends #california #usa #halden #norway #germany @wackenopenair.official 📸 @kdn (07 Aug 2022)

Morkisebakke, Mork Halden @ YT

Motorwulfe

• Website (error)
• Facebook page
• Instagram

Some of the members continued from Thrust.

Motörhead / Lemmy

See the Murder One.

Nadsokor

The band Nadsakor has the same band name.

Nick Banger

Episode 99: Cirith Ungol: Favorite albums + message to the band! (English language)

Is member of Guerrera, Metalmorfosis, Nick Banger, etc

Nirvana / Foo Fighters

see the Angry Samoans

Of Deities And Dust

Before Steve Johnson had the band HYD.

Bandcamp (from 2014)

Overlorde

Mark H Edwards from Overlorde

‘On my way into Greenwich Village to support my Epic/Power Metal brothers in Cirith Ungol along with Night Demon at LPR. My first time on PATH (or any mass transit) since March 2020.

Before leaving I snapped this shot of me holding an original pressing of Cirith Ungol ‘s album “Frost and Fire” that I bought new back in the day. I believe at Rock & Roll Heaven from Jon Zazula (R.I.P.). [Megaforce Records]

Anyone who’s at the show, feel free to hit me up and get an advance look at the artwork for OVERLORDE’s upcoming new album “Awaken the Fury”.’

Overlorde, inspired by Frank Frazetta.

Reverend Bizarre

• In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend

This album has actually nothing directly to do with Cirith Ungol. Track 6, “Cirith Ungol” is not a cover of the band’s song. But it’s a homage to the band. An extraction from an interview with Reverend Bizarre:

Reverend Bizarre was a doom metal band from Finland. They played slow and heavy traditional doom with dramatic vocals, following in the footsteps of bands such as Saint Vitus, Pentagram and Black Sabbath. The band was one of the biggest names in the fourth wave of traditional doom metal.

According to Albert Witchfinder, the band had planned three more full-length albums, after their second album – titled Songs from the Funereal World, Heavier Than Life and How It Was Meant to Be – but this plan was later scrapped and the band made only one more LP, disbanding Reverend Bizarre “before it started to suck.” The album, III So Long Suckers, was recorded in the first half of 2007, and released in August of that year. The band’s last concerts were played during the autumn and winter of 2006 culminating in a final performance in Turku.

The final track on their 2002 debut album In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend is named “Cirith Ungol”. It is not a cover, but it is a homage to Cirith Ungol. An extraction from an interview with Reverend Bizarre:

There’s also a text named ‘Cirith Ungol’ dealing with the saga of the `Lord Of The Rings`: Is this one of your favourite books? In the end of this year there’ll be this movie in cinema: Will you watch it? I personally don’t know actually `cause I really adore the book of Tolkien and I for sure will  be disappointed because a film can never come near to the feelings connected with the written saga!

We do like the works of J.R.R.Tolkien, although we are no fanatics in this matter. As a personal note, I conpager the fantasy worlds of Stephen R. Donaldson – especially the saga of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever – much more interesting and rewarding than Tolkien’s b/w creations. So, since Tolkien’s writings are no holy texts to us, we are not really afraid of the outcome of the forthcoming movie adaptation, either. Still, even though Peter Jackson is a great director, it is true that the story in question can never be captured on film in its entirety. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Besides, do you like CIRITH UNGOL, the band?

Yes we truly do! Voted the worst metal band ever, they must be the most underrated band in the entire metal history. It is true that Tim Baker’s rather chaotic expression demands a bit from the listener, but hell, the same goes with Scott Reagers of Saint Vitus as well! As a matter of fact, our “Cirith Ungol” started out as a homage to the band, and the Tolkien theme came actually later, through the title. This unbearably slow and colossal 23-minute funeral hymn that serves to end our debut album does not sound at all like the band Cirith Ungol, though!

Reverend Bizarre @ FB

Sir Lord Baltimore

see the Angry Samoans

Smoulder

Smoulder – Dream Quest Ends (2020)

Introduction & Overview by Sarah Kitteringham from Smoulder.

Society 1

Erik Kluiber (Society 1)

Society1

Steppenwolf

see the Angry Samoans

Stryper

They have King of the Dead LP, Stryper – The Yellow and Black Attack EP and 45 Grave – School’s Out 12″. All three was on Enigma Records. The LP was with Ron Goudie. Garven sayd: “We played with Stryper — we opened up for them and we headlined [ed: gig was 07 Jan 1982 on Stormer (pre Stryper) and 09 Nov 1984, is there more?] some shows at the Country Club, and so for a lot of those shows because they were in L.A., a lot more people would come. I think Ventura is just not a hotbed of the hard rock music scene.“. Search for a list if you want to check more of details.

Producer on Stryper was Ron Goudie.
Stryper @ FB

Stryper – Isaiah 53:5 (King James translation):

But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed.

Original hebrew language: ישעה: והוא מחלל מפשענו מדכא מעונתינו מוסר שלומנו עליו ובחברתו נרפא לנו׃

Stryper is acronym meaning Salvation Through Redemption Yielding Peace, Encouragement and Righteousness.

Surtr

Ran into our friend Robert Garvin of the great Ventura heavy metal legends Cirith Ungol the other night at the Ventura Music Hall! (Sat 27 Jul 2024)

FB

Sykotik Sinfoney

See the Wicked Lester.

Thrust

Tim Baker, Thrust and Dexter Ward

Video is Praying Skeleton in background and Thrust in front. But decent quality.

Motorwulfe was continued with some members.

Thrust @ Amazon

Thrust Band Official @ FB

U.D.O.

U.D.O. online @ web

Vore

See the Mausoleum.

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