One Foot in Hell

1. Blood & Iron

2. Chaos Descends

3. Fire

4. Nadsokor

5. 100 MPH

6. War Eternal

7. Doomed Planet

8. One Foot in Hell

One Foot in Hell,Cirith Ungol,Metal Blade,Heavy Metal,Popular Music

Average customer rating: The Best Part of This Album... attention all TRUE metal lovers!!! Fun nostalgia trip. "The howl of the Jakal" Chaos descends....

One Foot in Hell Cirith Ungol Manufacturer: Metal Blade ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: King of the Dead Frost & Fire Death Penalty Relentless Battle Cry ASIN: B00000I5JF Release Date: 1999-03-09

Tracks:

1. Blood & Iron
2. Cbaos Descends
3. The Fire
4. Nadsokor
5. 100 Mph
6. War Eternal
7. Doomed Planet
8. One Foot In Hell

Customer Reviews:

The Best Part of This Album..........2006-06-08

There is some metal out there that is actually good. This isn't an example of it. However, if you can find the album on vinyl you've got something. There was a poster in the album in the likeness of the album cover, and that was worth ownng.

attention all TRUE metal lovers!!!.......2005-05-06

yes,they have a "silly" name (if ya arent fimiliar with Tolkien).
yes,certain elements here are dated to the musical time in which it was created
however....
this really,really holds up rather well!perhaps inferior to "king of the dead",this is in no way unworthy of your time.
for those that hunger for true metal,along the lines of Priest,Queensryche,Mercyful Fate,Maiden,Jag Panzer,etc..
i am always amazed at how MANY metal-folk who have no IDEA about this band - take a chance while you still can & thank me later!!

Fun nostalgia trip........2004-06-29

Cirith Ungol, One Foot in Hell (Metal Blade, 1986)

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

"The howl of the Jakal".......2004-01-31

I received a cassette of this CD back in the late 1980s from a friend. I kept it all these years as a novelty because it showcases one of the most bizarre vocalists I had ever heard. It is hard to describe his style. He has a high, screeching voice though not as raw as Accept's Udo Dirkschneider's or even those of AC/DC's vocalists. The uniqueness of this singer's style is that he takes the last word of every other verse or so and extends it or just wails it. His voice is what I remember the most about Cirith Ungol. Oh, and the cool cover artwork.

Listening to the album now, Cirith Ungol really rocked! The guitars are excellent; right up there with big-time metal bands like Accept. The songs are also surprisingly catchy. I remember the driving "Blood and Iron" and "100 MPH," and the rich-sounding "Doomed Planet" and "Chaos Descends" even as the years and memory have gone by. The vocals just sound so strange and out of place between guitar riffs that could be on the albums of scores of other metal acts that I can't take One Foot in Hell as seriously as it probably deserves. I still consider it a novelty of sorts...one that really rocked anyway.

Chaos descends...........2002-05-22

Hard, heavy, fast and raw is the best way to describe 'old' Cirith Ungol. Full of wicked lyrics and driving guitar hits, these songs are definitely for the Chaos-oriented. From Blood & Iron, to Chaos Descends, to Nadsokor (The City of Thieves from Moorcock's Elric Saga?), to 100MPH, and One Foot In Hell this album hits hard, fast and relentlessly with the deep throaty growl of Tim Baker at the lead. IF you can still find it, their follow-up album King of the Dead, with Toccata in dminor, Finger of Scorn, King of the Dead, Atom Smasher, Black Machine, Cirith Ungol, and Master of the Pit is a great compliment to the other CD and the two will make quite a compilation of all their early great stuff.

Average customer rating: Eighties Syndrome

One Foot in Hell Walter Rossi Manufacturer: Unidisc Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004KH2W Release Date: 2007-01-04

Tracks:

1. Song For Lou
2. Liar
3. Money
4. Call
5. One Foot in Hell
6. Summer Breeze
7. Take A Look
8. Too Bad, So Sad

Customer Reviews:

Eighties Syndrome.......2006-08-18

I loved Walter Rossi's 1st 3 Records.A mix of stunning guitar fretwork combined with emotional ballads and a Latin mix.However,One foot in Hell was made during the Heydey of New Romantics music (Duran Duran/Ultravox etc), and this album I am sad to say will bring back memories of that era (i.e. the tinny keyboards,the electronic sounding drums and the backing female vocals (I imagine them wearing Skin tight spandex and with Farrah Fawcett type hairstyles).This album is geared towards commerciality. Its one saving grace is the awesome Title Track.
It starts off in a slow lazy mood and then bursts into fantastic heavy rifferama.The keyboards and drums on this track
are also thankfully back to how they should sound.The better songs on this CD are the slower ballads that dont have that New Romantics feel.You look at the scene during this period. Other great Hard Rock Canadian acts like Triumph,Frank Marino and even Rush fared a similar fate.The music had to relate to the times, and the mid 80s were one hell of a bad era for Classic Hard Rock.

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