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Cirith Ungol
• Format
CD, DVD/Blu-Ray/4K UHD, Live, and Video • Published Fri 25 Apr 2025Tracklist
CD1/LP A – First set – Dark Parade album – intro from War Eternal (from tape)
LP B
CD 2/LP C – Second set – classics
- Atom Smasher
- I’m Alive only on CD/DVD
- Frost and Fire
- Black Machine only on CD/DVD
- Blood & Iron only on CD/DVD
- Chaos Descends
- The Frost Monstreme
- Fire (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown cover)
LP D
Credits
CIRITH UNGOL:
TIM BAKER β Vocals, Aztec Death Whistle
GREG LINDSTROM β Guitars
ARMAND JOHN ANTHONY β Guitars
JARVIS LEATHERBY β Bass
ROBERT GARVEN β Drums and Percussion
ABOUT THIS ALBUM:
This album was the album release party for our 6α΅Κ° studio album βDark Paradeβ
recorded live at The Roxy Theater in Hollywood on October 20, 2023
CREDITS:
Recorded at The Roxy Hollywood, CA
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Armand John Anthony
Produced by Cirith Ungol and Armand John Anthony
Video by David Brodsky and Allison Woest of MyGoodEye Visuals. Music Visuals
We had the pleasure of filming a multicam concert video for @CirithUngolBand “Live at the Roxy” at the legendary Roxy Theatre in Hollywood CA. Available for preorder now, out April 25 on @MetalBlade
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jarvis Leatherby
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT: Jarvis Leatherby for Iron Grip
U.S. BOOKING: Nathan Carson for Nanotear Booking
E.U. BOOKING: JΓΆrg βSchrΓΆrgβ DΓΌsedau for Dragon Productions
A&R AND PRODUCT MANAGER: Markus βBartβ Grasseck
COVER PAINTING: Β©1980 by Michael Whelan (Michael Moorcock created fantasy character Elric of MelnibonΓ© β but not credited)
LIVE PHOTOS: Stephanie Cabral
LAYOUT AND DESIGN: Annick Giroux
All songs written, arranged, and performed by Cirith Ungol
All songs published by Leather Wings Music (BMI)
BAND WOULD LIKE TO THANK:
Brian Slagel, Tracey Vera, Mike Faley and all at Metal Blade Records US, Markus “Bart” Grasseck, Andreas Reissnauer, Armin Steiner, and the entire crew at Metal Blade Records Europe, Michael Whelan, for the remarkable βElricβ cover art, David Brodsky and Allison Woest of MyGoodEye Visuals for the awesome videos, Tom Malone, Luca Mulder, Brian Wilson, Greg Marino, Boris the Spider, and Ernie Blackmore, Salzerβs Guitar Planet, Girolas Kitchen and Tonyβs Pizza for help with promotion, Lou Adler, and everyone at the Roxy in Hollywood.
ROB: Rose Latourell, Heather & Bob Sanders, The Latourell Family, and my parents Bill & MaryJenns Garven, Jerry Sanders, Jim DβAndrea, John Rau, Rob Ferrell, Richard Welch, and to the memory of Neal Murphy. Special thanks to our gear techs Greg Marino and Chano and our main tech Jarvis Leatherby. Thanks to the amazing Catalina Drums, DW Drums, LP Cowbells, Paiste cymbals and go-go bells.
TIM: Mi Familia; Annette Baker, Adam Ferreira, Matthew Baker, Miranda Tanioghtari, Leila Tanioghtari, Leilani Basila and Sophia Ferreira. I would especially like to thank all our friends that have come out to support us over the years, you are our family.
GREG: Many thanks to my beautiful wife Angela, my awesome sons William (high on AI), and my wonderful sister Stephanie. My CU bandmates, new and old, past and present. Dan McCroskey (Photopherer), Graylen, Dan McCloy (KingMosher), Andrew and Susan for all the hospitality at Keep It True 2023, and to my musical family all over the world. Thanks to my former bandmates in Falcon, and my current musical partner in Arduini/Balich. Metal Blade Records (US & Europe), Riding Rhino Records. A huge thanks to everyone who made this show happen! And finally, thanks to Blue Γyster Cult, Black Sabbath, and Thin Lizzy for inspiration!
AS ALWAYS, THIS ALBUM WAS MADE
TO BE PLAYED AT MAXIMUM VOLUME!
DVD credits:
CIRITH UNGOL – Live at the Roxy
CIRITH UNGOL is:
Tim Baker
Robert Garven
Greg Lindstrom
Jarvis Leatherby
Armand John Anthony
Director, Director of Photography:
David Brodsky for My Good Eye: Music Visuals
Producer, Editor:
Allison Woest for My Good Eye: Music Visuals
Camera Operators:
David Brodsky
Brandon Hickman
Veronica Smith
Neil Watson
Allison Woest
Audio Production: Cirith Ungol
Audio Engineer, Mixer: Armand John Anthony
Filmed at The Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood CA
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- Tim Baker β 68/69 years then in 2025
- Robert Garven β 68/69 years then in 2025
- Greg Lindstrom β 67/68 years then in 2025
- Jarvis Leatherby β 43/44 years then in 2025
- Armand John Anthony β (?) years then in 2025
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- Annick Giroux β 38/39 years then in 2025
- Brandon Hickman β (?) years then in 2025
- David Brodsky β (?) years then in 2025
- JΓΆrg βSchrΓΆrgβ DΓΌsedau β 57/58 years then in 2025
- Michael Moorcock β 85/86 years then in 2025
- Michael Whelan β 74/75 years then in 2025
- Nathan Carson β 51/52 years then in 2025
- Neil Watson β (?) years then in 2025
- Robert Garven β 68/69 years then in 2025
- Stephanie Cabral β (?) years then in 2025
- Veronica Smith β (?) years then in 2025
Fri 25 Apr 2025 Metal Blade Records
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Release label: Metal Blade Records
Release number: 3984-16138-2
Release date: Fri 25 Apr 2025
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Fri 25 Apr 2025 Metal Blade Records, Limited 200 copies
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Title: “Live at the Roxy” White/Blue Splatter Vinyl
Release label: Metal Blade Records
Release number: 3984-16138-9
Release date: Fri 25 Apr 2025
Limited: 200
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Title: Live at the Roxy | 2x180g Black Vinyl+DVD
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Release number: 0039841613810
Release date: Fri 25 Apr 2025
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Fri 25 Apr 2025 Metal Blade Records, Limited 300 copies
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Title: Live at the Roxy | 2xDemon Blood Splatter Vinyl+DVD
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Release number: 3984-16825-1
Release date: Fri 25 Apr 2025
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Fri 25 Apr 2025 Metal Blade Records, Limited 500 copies
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Title: Live at the Roxy | 2xGreen Black Marbled Vinyl+DVD
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Title: Live at the Roxy | 2xLight Blue Marbled Vinyl+DVD
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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 MelnibonΓ© 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 [Edit: 1973, not 1993] 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!”
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- Dark Parade Album Release Show / Live Album & Concert Film Recording – The Roxy’s 50th Anniversary
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- Photo by Stephanie Cabral
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- Roxy Sunset Strip “Cirith Ungol’s first The Roxy Theatre show since 1983!! π€―”
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- Rob & “Rob” with Elric Demonslayers
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- Roxy 1983-2025
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- theroxyturns50.com
The gig was on Fri 20 Oct 2023. The live album was onΒ Fri 25 Apr 2025.
Note: This is budget DVD quality, not better Blu-ray quality or excellent 4K UHD quality. What do you think about the lower-priced DVD version of Live at the Roxy?
The cover
The artwork used by Michael Whelan for the Illustrated Collector’s Edition (or special hardcover editions) of The Elric Saga #4 β Vanishing Tower (June 1981) was also featured on the cover of The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 7 (October 1981). The painting is originally titled “Elric: Demonslayer”, incorrectly “Dragonslayer”.
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- Original painting: Elric Demonslayer (1980)
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- Elric 4 Illustrated Collectors Edition on Archival Press (Jun 1981)
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- The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 7 on DAW Books (Oct 1981)
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- Live at the Roxy (25 Apr 2025)
Which of these books you could choose?
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- Which of these books you could choose: The Elric Saga 4: The Vanishing Tower β Illustrated Collectors Edition (Jun 1981) or The Yearβs Best Fantasy Stories: 7 (Oct 1981) ?
See more on Elric 4. The Vanishing Tower on the conflicting books.
Controversy: in the credits on Live at the Roxy, there is no mention at all of βMichael Moorcockβ, the creator of Elric.
Live albums in the 1980s
The band had planned to have a live album on the left, but it has been delayed for several years: “In the future, we may have a custom cover done by Michael Whelan for a βliveβ album like Demonslayer.” -Robert Garven, Heavy Metal Times 1983
“Our next one will probably be a double live album. Shit, we might as well do one! I’m sure it will be piledrivin’!!! Well, itβs just that weβre a lot more radical live than on record, man. βCause like Jerry goes totally wild! He goes nuts live. He plays shit like where my jaw drops on the floor!” -Tim, Suck City Jan 1986
The right side is the official artwork on the Live at the Roxy live album in 2025.
The image on the left is an early draft where parts of the sword at the top and the “demonslayer” at the bottom were unfortunately cut off due to the constraints of fitting the artwork within the dimensions of a CD/LP cover. The image on the right is the official Live at the Roxy cover, where they cropped the sides slightly but preserved both the full sword and the “demonslayer” at the bottom. This version ensures that the iconic elements of Michael Whelan’s Elric Demonslayer artwork are fully visible within the album’s layout.
Note: Live (1996) and Iβm Alive (2019) has also released earlier, but it has no Elric Demonslayer cover.
CU1@FB Rob:Β “Thanks to everyone that came out to the show last night at the Roxy in Hollywood! It was a packed house filled with celebrities and record company executives, and friends from around the world! I think it was possibly our best show ever in the history of the band! Special thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen!“
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I can’t wait for this. Any updates on the release?