CIRITH UNGOL "Servant Of Chaos" DoCD Metal Blade
What a glorious legacy! The sound is raw but CIRITH UNGOL die-hard fans don't
care because of the high quality of the songs. There is a lot to find on
this double cd.
On disc one, the straight and stormy "Hype Performance", the great studio
version of "Last Laugh", a very interesting early version of "Frost And Fire"
with synthesizer, "Eyes" which is more rock than metal but gives you the
thrill, early versions of "Better Off Dead" and "I'm Alive" with minor differences,
the excellent and insane "Bite Of The Worm", the fast "100 Mph" which is
crazier and better than the one on "One Foot In Hell", and eight instrumentals
: the furious "The Twitch", "Maybe That's Why" which sounds more morbid and
better than the album version, the creepy "Darkness Waves", the bringers
of chaos "Witchdance" and "Feeding The Ants", the sorrowful "Obsidian", and
the two little masterpieces "Ill Met In Lankhmar" and "Return To Lankhmar"
which make you a travel in a dark, bewitching and strange world.
On disc two, the great version of "Death Of The Sun" that really was the
best song on the Metal Massacre 1 compilation, six songs that are more killer
and the way it was meant to sound on their fourth album instead of being
slayed by an incompetent producer : the "Fire" ocver (what an assault!),
the fantastic "Join The Legion", the dark and epic "Fallen Idols" (two versions)
/ "Chaos Rising" / "Paradise Lost" / "Before The Lash", plus five live tracks
with the great "Last Laugh", the powerful bomb "Atom Smasher" and the sublime
"Master Of The Pit" / "King Of The Dead" / "Cirith Ungol". There's also a
funny cover of the "Secret Agent Man" theme.
Words are poor to describe the genius of CIRITH UNGOL. It's a shame that
this band doesn't get the recognition it deserves (maybe except in Greece
and in Germany, I guess...). "Servant Of Chaos" is a necessary double cd,
buy it and let you go in a dark and heavy metal land created by talented
musicians. Hail CIRITH UNGOL!
Patrick Lefevre
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