Cirith Ungol announce new live album ‘Live At The Roxy’

CIRITH UNGOL have announced a new live album!

Titled Live At The Roxy, the upcoming live album from the veteran American heavy metal band captures the band performing at the Sunset Strip’s Roxy Theatre, and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Metal Blade Records.

The one-night performance was the album release show for 2023’s Dark Parade and the live album captures the album performed live in its entirety, alongside a set of classic songs.

“It‘s owned by a Hollywood music legend, Lou Adler,” notes cofounding drummer Rob Garven, “and is next door to the famous Rainbow Bar and Grill. It‘s a landmark Hollywood club, which includes the Whisky and The Starwood [now gone] so every time we played one of these historic venues, it was a special occasion. It was great to see many of our friends and fans from all over the world at the show.”

Bassist Jarvis Leatherby adds, “for years, there has been a live bootleg record famous in the underground from their last appearance there in 1984 titled Cirith Ungol, Live At The Roxy. I felt it fitting for the band to return there 40 years later to officially document a live performance in a way the guys would be proud of. Metal Blade Records, The Adlers, Nanotear, and Goldenvoice all came together in support to actually make it happen.”

Alongside the announcement of the new live album, the band have released a new live music video for the tune Down Below.

Speaking about the song, Garven shares, “this song strung together by the haunting acoustic guitar is a gift to all of you on this Doomed Planet! It was, and is, the culmination of all the pain and suffering absorbed into our being from the pandemic, the lost lives, cancelled shows, isolation, and stimuli deprivation. It features some of my best drumming and one of [guitarist] Jimmy [Barraza]‘s best solos. As the song rises to the ultimate crescendo, all this pent-up emotion is unleashed on the listener with our final gasping breath. Truly a churning maelstrom of metal chaos descending!”

Watch the official live music video for Down Below here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. Velocity (S.E.P.)
2. Relentless
3. Sailor On The Seas Of Fate
4. Sacrifice
5. Looking Glass
6. Dark Parade
7. Distant Shadows
8. Down Below
9. Atom Smasher
10. I’m Alive
11. Frost And Fire
12. Black Machine
13. Blood And Iron
14. Chaos Descends
15. The Frost Monstreme
16. Fire
17. Death Of The Sun
18. Master Of The Pit
19. King Of The Dead
20. Join The Legion

Live At The Roxy is set for release on April 25th via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.