''One Foot in Hell'' is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band

Cirith Ungol In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Mordor (pronounced ; from Sindarin ''Black Land'' and Quenya ''Land of Shadow'') is the realm and base of the evil Sauron. It lay to the east of Gondor and the great river Anduin, and ...

. The original LP was produced by

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and Cirith Ungol. It was released in August 1986 on

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and re-released in March 1999 by Metal Blade Records on CD. Greg Lindstrom said in an interview:

It's an excellent album although I thought the songs overall were not as strong as '' King of the Dead'', and Flint's bass seems to have gotten lost in the mix.

The song "Nadsokor" was covered by the Italian

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band

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Track listing

All songs by Cirith Ungol, except where indicated. #"Blood & Iron" – 3:52 #"Chaos Descends" – 4:55 #"The Fire" – 3:37 #"Nadsokor" – 4:43 #"100 MPH" (Cirith Ungol, Greg Lindstrom) – 3:26 #"War Eternal" – 5:12 #"Doomed Planet" – 4:38 #"One Foot in Hell" – 5:10

Personnel

*Tim Baker – vocals *Jerry Fogle – guitars *Michael Vujea – bass *Robert Garven – drums

References

{{Authority control 1986 albums Cirith Ungol albums Metal Blade Records albums Albums with cover art by Michael Whelan