Having been on the scene for an astonishing fifty-one years, at a time when even heavy metal was unheard of, could this Dark Parade signal Cirith Ungol's final act? If so, then these warriors of heavy metal are going out in true heavy/doom style....

Cirith Ungol's last album came out in 1991 and shortly after that the main cogs of this heavy/doom machine gave up making music altogether. You can read about how the sleeping giant was awakened here. For Forever Black's cover art the band once...