King of the Dead is the second album by the American heavy metal band Cirith Ungol.

Band member Robert Garven declared in an interview: King of the Dead was our best album, the reason was that we had total control over it.

Every album could have been this good if we could have exercised complete control over its production and other things.

The reason the long wait between albums is because when you are financing them yourselves, you have to come up with the money to pay for things like studio time.

[7] Guitarist Greg Lindstrom, who left the band in 1982, two years before the release of this album, said: 'Atom Smasher', 'Cirith Ungol' and 'Death of the Sun' were all songs we had written together in the mid 70's, and 'Finger of Scorn' was one of my songs that the band used with my blessing.