Review: Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade | |||||||
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Dark Parade | |||||||
Label: Metal Blade Records Year released: 2023 Duration: 44:05 Tracks: 8 Genre: Heavy/Doom Rating: Review online: November 14, 2023 Reviewed by: Sargon the Terrible |
Readers' Rating How do you rate this release? Rated 4.33/5 (86.67%) (15 Votes)
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For whatever reason, I didn't really attach to Cirith Ungol's comeback album Forever Black a few years ago. I don't make it a big secret that I think King of the Dead is the definitive Cirith Ungol album, and their other works are much more hit-or-miss. Frost & Fire is too much rock and not enough metal, One Foot in Hell doesn't have enough of the doom sound I want, and Paradise Lost is just too uneven to get into. All that aside, all comeback albums by old bands should be this good. Dark Parade legit sounds like it was written 40 years ago, with the grooving riffs, doomy atmosphere, and that acid rock flavoring to the leads so the whole thing sounds like it crawled out of the '70s last week. I don't think there are any tracks to match "Black Machine" or "Finger of Scorn," but songs like "Sailor on the Seas of Fate" are almost as good. The album does lose some momentum as it goes on, and the second half is just less memorable than the first. There's more polish than the band had in the old days, and that does remove some of the weird edge they used to have, but really that they can still make an album this good is a tremendous accomplishment. See below for more reviews and interviews... ↓ |
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More about Cirith Ungol... | |||||||
Review: Dark Parade (reviewed by MetalMike) Review: Forever Black (reviewed by Michel Renaud) Review: Half Past Human (reviewed by Michel Renaud) Review: I'm Alive (reviewed by Michel Renaud) Review: King Of The Dead (reviewed by Larry Griffin) Review: King of the Dead (Ultimate Edition) (reviewed by Omni) Review: One Foot in Hell (reviewed by MetalMike) Review: Paradise Lost (reviewed by Omni) Interview with Cirith Ungol on April 16, 2017 (Interviewed by Omni) Interview with vocalist Tim Baker, drummer Robert Graven and bassist Jarvis Leatherby on December 1, 2019 (Interviewed by Luxi Lahtinen) | |||||||
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