Cirith Ungol - One Foot in Hell

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Music Review: Fun nostalgia trip.
Rating: 4 Stars

Well, this is it-- the album NME readers called the worst metal album in history. Okay, so it's cheesy, we all know that. It's eighties metal, and the vast majority of eighties metal was cheesy. (Did you ever actually LISTEN to the lyrics on those Venom albums? Cripes!) The production values, to be kind about it, blew goat (but were better than those on the band's first two albums, by maybe five bucks or so). Still, there's a majesty to songs like "Blood and Iron" and "One Foot in Hell" that's impossible to deny, even with Tim Baker's "well, it takes some gittin' usedta" voice. The boys are tighter than ever on this one, the music is straight-up metal, and man, you can't NOT love that cover (Whelan's painting that originally graced the cover of the seventies DAW edition of Michael Moorcock's The Vanishing Tower).

Like the first two albums, if you know you're going to like it via nostalgia, an abiding love of fantasy fiction (especially the Eternal Champion), or you've been a longtime fan of Cirith Ungol who just never got around to picking this up, do so. Quick. The rest of you, well, try some audio clips at Amazon to see how you feel about Tim Baker. *** ½

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