Jeff Blacky formed Mournblade with Rick in summer of 1987 and managed to play shows and release a few tapes during it's rocky 20 odd years, we gone thou about 10 different band members during that course inculding 3 that have died. Some of these tracks on this cd was made during our early years and some tracks i wrote during my combat deployments overseas. The follow up Eps are from VD Records inculding 1917 which was released in 2006 and Pray for the Dead ep in 2007. we followed it up with a live cd "Live at the Whisky AGo-AGo" in late 2008, before the band broke up in late 2009. Mangled Lies was writin in early 2005 while i was deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom, it was inculded in his cd release as well as 2001's Holy War track i wrote 2 days before 9-11. Mournblade was originally intitled Stealer of Souls before it was rewrote in 1987, The track "Set" was inculded in the cd it's from 1988 as well as Lord of Chaos from 1989.