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Record The Orange Album • Band Cirith Ungol Format Cassette/MC/Tape and Demo • Published Aug 1978

Tracklist

MC / CD

title

vote

time

Rob

Jerry

Greg

Tim

Neil

written / music by

except for this, first listening to…

lyrics

A01 / 01

 

03:20

^

Lindstrom

cover:

(2008)

Same as Die Wontcha?

A02 / 02

 

04:25

*

x

Lindstrom

cover:

(2004) / original: MySpace (2004?)

Same as Falcon?

A03 / 03

 

03:45

*

Lindstrom

instrumental

A04 / 04

 

03:00

^

*

Lindstrom

A05 / 05

 

04:40

* ≪

Lindstrom

original:

(2001)

A06 / 06

 

01:10

*

Lindstrom

original: Servants of Chaos (2001)

instrumental

B01 / 07

 

03:00

^

Lindstrom / Garven

B02 / 08

 

03:25

Lindstrom / Garven / Fogle

remake:

(1984)

instrumental

B03 / 09

 

04:20

*

x

Lindstrom

original:

(2004?)

alien invasion

B04 / 10

 

07:00

*

Lindstrom

instrumental

B05 / 11

 

04:00

* ≪

Lindstrom / Garven

cover: Falcon (2004)

same as Falcon?

Total

42:05

Streaming

See also Bandcamp, Spotify, Tidal.

Editions

Aug 1978 Liquid Flame Studios A&B

ID: 22818
permalink: https://cirithungol.org/edition/1978-liquid-flame-studios-ab/
title: 1978 (Liquid Flame Studios A&B)

Release label: Liquid Flame Studios A&B
Release date: Aug 1978

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Fri 04 Dec 2020 Iron Grip Records, Limited 666 copies

ID: 22819
permalink: https://cirithungol.org/edition/2020-iron-grip-records-cassette/
title: 2020 (Iron Grip Records; cassette)

Release label: Iron Grip Records
Release date: Fri 04 Dec 2020
Limited: 666

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Fri 02 Apr 2021 Iron Grip Records, USA, Limited 100 copies

ID: 25631
permalink: https://cirithungol.org/edition/2020-iron-grip-records-cassette-2/
title: 2020 (Iron Grip Records; cassette 2)

Release label: Iron Grip Records
Release date: Fri 02 Apr 2021
Country: USA
Limited: 100

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Fri 02 Apr 2021 Iron Grip Records, Limited 100 copies

ID: 24094
permalink: https://cirithungol.org/edition/2021-iron-grip-records-igr-001cd1/
title: 2021 (Iron Grip Records; IGR-001CD1)

Release label: Iron Grip Records
Release number: IGR-001CD1
Release date: Fri 02 Apr 2021
Limited: 100
Format: CD and Demo

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2023 Metal Army / Mindscrape Music, Brazil

ID: 31589
permalink: https://cirithungol.org/edition/metal-army-mindscrape-music-army-073-cd/
title: Metal Army / Mindscrape Music – ARMY 073-CD

Release label: Metal Army / Mindscrape Music
Release number: ARMY 073-CD
Release date: 2023
Country: Brazil
Format: CD

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N/A Iron Grip Records

ID: 24095
permalink: https://cirithungol.org/edition/iron-grip-records-igr-002cd2/
title: (Iron Grip Records; IGR-002CD2?)

Release label: Iron Grip Records
Release date: N/A

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2024 Iron Grip Records

ID: 31593
permalink: https://cirithungol.org/edition/iron-grip-records-igr-00lp/
title: (Iron Grip Records; IGR-00LP?)

Release label: Iron Grip Records
Release date: 2024

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Heaviest Metal

A cassette demo known as self release, or “Demo Cassette Album“, “Demo cassette”, “Orange demo”, “Orange label”, “Orange cassette”, later “Orange album”, or simply as “Album”. Subtitle is “Heaviest Metal”. Limited to a few hundred copies.

In finally, the title is called “The Orange Album” from Dec 2020.

The orange cassette was a demo that we were giving to friends and I think we sent some out looking for a label.

– Robert Garven, March 2019

The cassette demo “album” had an orange cover, and it was distributed at gigs. Some of the tunes on the orange cassette included “Show You All” sung by Rob, “Route 666” sung by Greg, “We Know You’re Out There” sung by exiting Neal Beattie and entering Tim Baker and “High Speed Love” sung by Tim Baker.

– Perry Grayson, 31 Jan 2006 

Video is from Dec 2020. Neil Beattie is still alive too, but he is missed on the video, unfortunately. Maybe the next time? I wish. Limited edition is 000454 of total 00666 in year 2020. The last song is also song about Route 666.

Special Guests:

  • Tim Baker: Lead vocals on High Speed Love, Background vocals.
  • Neil Beattie: Lead vocals on We Know You’re Out There.

Additional Credits from 2020:

  • All songs arranged by Cirith Ungol.
  • All songs recorded July-August 1978 at Liquid Flame Studios A&B, Ventura, California.
  • Engineered and mixed by Greg Lindstrom, Robert Garven, and Tim Baker.

 

Show You All, High Speed Love and Route 666 from the cover of Falcon. High Speed Love are from the Matt Baker’s The Cirith Ungol Legion MySpace group (dead link). Bite of the Worm and Witchdance are from the Orange tape and on Servants of Chaos. Atom Smasher has earlier from Orange tape. We Know You’re Out There are from the first Cirith Ungol MySpace.

We recorded a 12 track [ed: 11 track] demo cassette (the “Orange Album”) in 1979 [ed: 1978], which we sold locally and at shows. “Bite of the Worm” and “Witchdance” from that cassette are on “Servants Of Chaos”. We sent the cassette out to a lot of  record companies, but I think they were all looking for another Van Halen at that time, so we decided to release an album ourselves.

– Greg Lindstrom, Dark Tales 4/2002

Engineer and mixer

Dokorder – reel to reel tape recorders. Rob’s parent’s house using a Tascam mixer and a Dokorder 4 channel recorder.

Armed with their own Dokorder reel-to-reel 4 track recorder, Cirith Ungol whapped out a tape chock full of their blistering tunes.

– Perry Grayson, 31 Jan 2006

All the songs on this CD were recorded in our 10 x 14 practice room in Rob’s parents’ house on our trusty Dokorder 7140 4 track reel-to-reel and Teac Model 3 mixer.

– Greg Lindstrom, liner notes

Dokorder – Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording

TEAC. But which “Teac Model 3 mixer” for Cirith Ungol in 1978? This one?

 

The bootlegs and the genuines

The first demo are the The Orange Album – December 1977 with yellow/orange background. Mr. Goniloc talked about funny records on video (30 May 2018) on Cirith Ungol. Amongst other thing, The Orange Album released maybe 2018, and is fake. Does it really exists the fake demo in real, or just Internet? Probably just Internet.

The next one is the self-titled Cirith Ungol (1979) and cover is “Praying Skeleton” on white skeleton on black background. And it is also bootleg. Not sure about it’s date, but some years earlier. Maybe released 2002? I have never seen before, just media. Does it really exists the fake demo in real, or just Internet?

Now, there are two demos, The Orange Album (Dec 1977) and the self-titled (1979), or vice versa. There is a Cirith Ungol’s discography that has also has two demo releases, f.ex. Wikipedia, Metal Archives, Youtube, this-metal.com, that-metal.com etc.

But all of these two are fake.

Very funny! The first two releases shown were actually bootlegs. The second was derived from a concert poster I drew!?

– Robert Garven, Goniloc 2018

 

Probably to have The Orange Album (Dec 1977) on Halloween Party (1976).

I have never seen that, however the art is from a poster I drew for the band I looked and could not find that one in my archives, but still looking.

– Robert Garven, March 2019

 

The first demo tape is nick named “Orange album”, etc. (Aug 1978) is genuine. Except that, all of pictures are fake, counterfeit or bootleg.

A short brief with titled:

  • The Orange Album, pyramid yellow/orange background (Dec 1977) – fake
  • The orange album / demo / cassette etc., “Praying Skeleton” orange/red background (Aug 1978/remaster 2020) – real
  • Cirith Ungol, “Praying Skeleton” black background (1979) – fake ?
  • Various drawings is also fake (1977-79) – fake

 

The second geniune and the last demo are the first Frost and Fire. Sound identical, but not text and pictures.

LP: US (Liquid Flame Records; HM13666)

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