Dette var den første Ungolplaten jeg kjøpte (på vinyl). En helt unik og fantastisk stemning gjennom hele veien (minus DotS). Å velge ut en favoritt her er ikke enkelt. Black Machine, Master of the Pit, King of the Dead, Finger of Scorn og Cirith Ungol er gull alt sammen. Det er faktisk kun Death of the Sun jeg ikke har sansen for. Velger allikevel den geniale Finger of Scorn.
En sikker kandidat til en all-time top-ti liste er det uten tvil!
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Robert W. Garven Jr., May 2007 wrote: As co-founder and drummer of Cirith Ungol for 22 years I feel I can say without a doubt that this was our best effort. A previous reviewer mentioned that "Frost & Fire" sounded thrown together. The real truth is that we had been in the band for 9 years already and "Frost & Fire" was our attempt to get airplay and find success with what we considered some of our more accessable music. When the local LA station KLOS played it once and considered it too heavy, we decided to go for broke with our second album. I disagree and think Tim singing is not only excellent and that "Frost & Fire" has some of his best vocals. "'Im Alive" was one of our all time best songs, which we started almost every set with. The LA Times said that Pearl Jams "Alive" was a blatant rip off of our song, which is debatable. Considering we produced, self recorded and paid for the entire project and that we were one of if not the first independent band to put out their own album during the wave of indie productions during that time, I think F&F and KOTD is a mandatory listen.
That said "King of the Dead" is my favorite and the last album which we had total control over. I am proud that we are mentioned in the same breath as bands that were epic and hope you all appreciate what we were trying to acomplish at a time when only big label bands had any chance of distribution or airplay.