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Demos and out-takes 101 Hype Performance 102 Last Laugh 103 Frost And Fire 104 Eyes 105 Better Off Dead 106 100 MPH 107 I'm Alive 108 Bite Of The Worm 109 The Twitch 110 Maybe That's Why 111 Ill Met In Lankhmar 112 Return To Lankhmar 113 Darkness Weaves 114 Witchdance 115 Feeding The Ants 116 Obsidian Alternative versions 201 Death Of The Sun 202 Fire 203 Fallen Idols Paradise Lost-practice tape session 204 Chaos Rising 205 Fallen Idols 206 Paradise Lost 207 Join The Legion 208 Before The Lash Live at Airlington Theater, Santa Barbara, California 04 May 1985 209 Atom Smasher (Live) 210 Master Of The Pit (Live) 211 King Of The Dead (Live) Live at The Country Club, Reseda , California 11 Sep 1984 212 Last Laugh (Live) Live at Airlington Theater, Santa Barbara, California 04 May 1985 213 Cirith Ungol (Live) Demos and out-takes 214 Secret Agent Man 215 Ferrari 308QV Live at Wolf & Rissmiller's Country Club, November 9, 1984 [only with bonus DVD] 301 I'm Alive 302 The Black Machine 303 Master of the Pit 304 King of the Dead! 305 Death of the Sun 306 Finger of Scorn 307 Frost & Fire 308 Cirith Ungol

Credits Produced by: Robert Garven & Greg Lindstrom Executive Producers: Randall L. Jackson & Matt Thomas Mastered By: Brad Vance Photography: Greg Hazard Graphic Design: Thomas Ewerhard Road Manager: Kevin "Dr" Sage

Editions 2CD: 2001 UK (Metal Blade Records; 3984-14383-2) 3LP: (Archaic Temple Prod.) [planned, not released] 2CD/DVD 2011 (Metal Blade Records; ) [digipak] 3LP 2011 (Metal Blade Records; ) [black vinyl] 3LP 2011 (Metal Blade Records; ) [golden brown vinyl, ltd.x300] 3LP 2011 (Metal Blade Records; ) [flame vinyl, ltd.x300]

Fans had been asking for years about unreleased live and studio songs, so a few years ago Rob and I got to talking about the stacks of unreleased songs we had laying around, and we decided that at least some of it was good enough to be released. Overall, I’m very satisfied with the finished product. The sound quality isn’t always the greatest, but Brad Vance at DNA did a great job of saving and cleaning up our old tapes, some of which were 25 years old. The fan reaction has been great, and everyone seems to have a different favorite song. We keep getting asked when Volume 2 will come out, and there is still some more material we haven't unearthed yet.

Rob came up with the idea and Metal Blade Europe was very receptive, so we both spent weeks going through our respective stacks of tapes. What ended up on the CD is a small fraction of what we have on tape.

There had been a lot of requests from our fans for some new CU material, so Rob and I spent a couple of months going through our old demo and practice tapes. Rob pitched the idea to Metal Blade, and the European side was very interested. Unfortunately, MB in the US did not release it, so the CD is rather hard to find over here in our own backyard! We would like to get a US label to release “Servants” over here.

If “Servants” generates enough interest, you could hear from us again. We still have at least 20 songs that have never been released, like “Brutish Manchild” and “Route 666”. I would like to resurrect some more old tapes that have Jerry’s guitar magic.

Greg and I were actually the two original members so it was only natural that I turn to him to help work on the project. The other remaining members either did not want to participate or were totally against the project thinking that the music was inferior to our studio work. I was just interested in getting the music released before it was destroyed by time as so much of the other material was. Since our other albums had been released I thought that this was the best possible time and I knew that our good fans would enjoy hearing some of the early and live versions of some of the songs.

The only money we got to release Servants of Chaos went to the mastering lab, the few hundred dollars we had left over Greg and I agreed to send to Michael Whelan. In fact Greg and I spent some of our own money to get the project out and as soon as we signed the contract with Metal Blade it had a hidden clause in it that combined all the other re-release royalties guaranteeing that we would never make a cent on the deal. On a lighter note royalties that were made on Servants of Chaos were supposed to be deducted from the monies owed on the re-releases but never were. I contacted Metal Blade and Brian said he would look into it. I never heard back from them. People asked me if I was upset that bootleg albums existed of some of our material. My reply has been that since we have never made any money from our legitimate record companies why should we be upset at someone who would promote our music by releasing a bootleg?

Metal Blade in Germany however, is run by a very cool guy, Michel Trengert. He has been a good friend to the band. We have never made much money from either group, but he was the guy that suggested that we put out our “Servants of Chaos” CD, which contained all our old and unreleased material, without him it never would have happened. Brian our old friend did not release it in America for whatever reason.

He [Trengert] suggested the idea to me and Greg and I got all the material together that we could find in hopes of releasing allot of stuff that no one had heard before. There are some real gems in there, including some great instrumental work by Greg, and a version of “Fallen Idols” that showed what the album “Paradise Lost” would have sounded like if we would not have had a producer destroy the musical compositions and arrangements. All in all, I was very happy with it, even though Metal Blade saw fit not to release it in the US. Tim was opposed to it, as he thought there was going to be some questionable material on there, but since the tapes were deteriorating, it was then or never. I decided that since the tapes were legally either Greg’s or mine that I was going to go for it for our fans. Unfortunately, it seemed to have cost our friendship.