Cirith Ungol Tribute

[Hugin]

To get away from the unpleasant "traitors" and "betrayal" and "sell-out" stuff, I thought I'd ask you about a band that isn't suspicious of fitting into one of those categories. My all-time-faves CIRITH UNGOL.

Seems like the tribute is finally about to be released soon, and I'll definitely get it. What about you?

Further info:
<a href='http://www.solemnity-music.de/' target='_blank'>http://www.solemnity-music.de/</a>

[Patrick]

I am not into the tribute albums, but why not this one, it makes a change from the eternal judas priest/iron maiden/metallica tribute albums...

the more interesting seems to be "Doomed Planet" by Dawn Of Winter/Sacred Steel and "Shelob's Lair" by Falcon. "Join The Legion" by Battle Ram is great but was already on their mlp...
Emerald did a strange choice with "Heaven Help Us", I was waiting for a more epic song...
I am not familiar with the other bands...

[Stormbringer]

Some of the first couple of tribute albums in the late 90's were pretty cool. but now I couldn't care less it feels like. Most of these underground tribute albums have tons of bands you have never even heard about. Didn't Remedy Records do a Running Wild tribute album a while back where probably about 90% of the band were probably local ones? Seriously, not even the die hard Running Wild fans could be interested in such a release!

[Hugin]

Well, I was interested in the RW-tribute... pretty cool... especially BECAUSE the tributing bands are unknown.

Generally I'm not a big tribute fan either, however, talking about Cirith Ungol I'm happy about anything that holds their name in the present discussion. Even if it's a tribute. It makes me happy to see younger bands around to whom Cirith Ungol mean probably as much as they mean to me. That's all. I don't expect any big revelations or ingenious coverversions, but I appreciate the feeling of young underground bands honouring a fallen hero. The probably greates fallen hero in my book.

B)

[Stormbringer]

Haha, I guess you're one of the few (I guess) who picked up a copy of that RW tribute Hugin

With all the countless releases made today I would think that you can't just do a tribute album of some well known band featuring totally obscure bands and selling loads of copies, but maybe I'm wrong?

I'm a big Cirith Ungol fan as well and they definitely deserve all the credit they can get, but having plenty of second rate bands doing second rate covers of great bands is not much of a tribute in my opinion. Note that I'm NOT refering to the Cirith Ungol tribute album in particular here (as I haven't heard it) but all the countless tribute albums being made the last 5 years in general...

[Hugin]

I haven't yet picked up the officially released RW-tribute so far, but I plan to do so. I have heard some samples and they were cool, and a guy I know has also recommended it. I'm a huge RW-fan and have almost all of their stuff, down to singles and demotracks, so I'm just plain curious about the covers. I don't expect them to be great, but well, entertaining, to say the most. What I have already heard though is the "third disc" of that Tribute, "Rough Diamonds" i.e. the coverversions of even less known bands that didn't make the official album. They can all be downloaded for free as one ZIP-File from the official RW-homepage: <a href='http://www.running-wild.net/' target='_blank'>http://www.running-wild.net/</a> Nothing exceptionally great here of course, but some nice attempts at honouring Running Wild.

As for the CU-tribute... Of course I already have the Falcon-song on the Falcon-CD and it's a real killer IMO. Wanna hear the remix, too. I also have big respect for Battle Ram, Holy Martyr, Emerald and Dawn Of Winter, so I'm really curious about their covers. Already heard Battle Ram, and their version of "Join The Legion" is pretty cool. Far away from reaching the original of course... How could it?