Servants of Chaos

Servants of Chaos is a compilation album by American heavy metal band Cirith Ungol, released under Metal Blade Records on September 5, 2001.

Servants of Chaos
Compilation album by
Cirith Ungol
ReleasedSeptember 5, 2001
Genre
Length2:25:15 (original release)[1]
3:13:56 (with bonus disc)[2]
LabelMetal Blade
Cirith Ungol chronology
Paradise Lost
(1991)		 Servants of Chaos
(2001)		 The Legacy
(2017)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

The album was released during the band's hiatus (which lasted from 1992-2016), and contains content from all four of their studio albums (Frost and Fire, King of the Dead, One Foot in Hell, and Paradise Lost), their 1979 self-titled demo, as well as previously unreleased live recordings of the band throughout the years. The original release of the album contains 31 tracks, on two CD's.

The album was re-released on vinyl on November 21, 2011.

The album was re-released once again on January 31, 2012, with the addition of a bonus DVD-video[4] of a live performance on November 9, 1984 at the Wolf & Rissmiller's Country Club—which was located in the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.[5]

The album was released for a fourth time by Metal Blade Records, digitally.

Critical reception

The album received mostly positive reviews, with AllMusic giving it a critic score of 3/5 stars.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Track listing
Disc 1
No.TitleLength
1."Hype Performance"2:25
2."Last Laugh"4:13
3."Frost and Fire"3:55
4."Eyes"4:15
5."Better Off Dead"4:59
6."100 MPH"3:34
7."I'm Alive"5:08
8."Bite of the Worm"3:42
9."The Twitch" (instrumental)2:21
10."Maybe That's Why" (instrumental)6:30
11."Ill Met in Lankhmar" (instrumental)5:58
12."Return to Lankhmar" (instrumental)6:55
13."Darkness Weaves" (instrumental)8:10
14."Witchdance" (instrumental)1:19
15."Feeding the Ants" (instrumental)2:09
16."Obsidian" (instrumental)4:36
Disc 2
No.TitleLength
17."Death of the Sun"3:56
18."Fire" (Arthur Brown cover)2:52
19."Fallen Idols"6:34
20."Chaos Rising"7:43
21."Fallen Idols"6:29
22."Paradise Lost"6:27
23."Join the Legion"4:27
24."Before the Lash"3:44
25."Atom Smasher" (live)4:01
26."Master of the Pit" (live)6:38
27."King of the Dead" (live)6:58
28."Last Laugh" (live)4:23
29."Cirith Ungol" (live)8:21
30."Secret Agent Man" (Johnny Rivers cover)3:12
31."Ferrari 308QV (on Dyno at 8000 RPM)" (instrumental)0:23
Disc 3 (bonus DVD-Video; 2011 and 2012 releases only)
No.TitleLength
1."I'm Alive" (live)4:41
2."Black Machine" (live)4:14
3."Master of the Pit" (live)6:06
4."King of the Dead" (live)6:30
5."Death of the Sun" (live)3:31
6."Finger of Scorn" (live)7:31
7."Frost and Fire" (live)3:21
8."Cirith Ungol" (live)6:39
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gollark: Macron is just this plus macros.
gollark: This sounds performant.
gollark: Shouldn't that be a ParserResult or something?
gollark: Nobody will notice.

References
  1. "Cirith Ungol — Servants of Chaos". Discogs. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  2. "Full DVD". YouTube. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  3. Heaney, Gregory. "Cirith Ungol Servants of Chaos review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  4. "Cirith Ungol "Servants of Chaos"". Metal Blade. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  5. "Country Club Location".
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