Drum Programming – Voco FauxpasDrum Programming, Backing Vocals – Stephen PriestlyGuitar, Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals – Curt Victor BryantVoice, Guitar, Backing Vocals – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Bryant, Warrior
5:34
2
Idols Of Chagrin
Drum Programming – Stephen Priestly, Voco FauxpasGuitar, Lead Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals – Curt Victor BryantVoice, Guitar, Backing Vocals – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Bryant, Warrior
4:10
3
A Descent To Babylon (Babylon Asleep)
Drums – Stephen PriestlyGuitar – Ron MarksLead Guitar, Bass – Curt Victor BryantVoice [Female] – Uta GuntherVoice, Guitar – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Ain, Marks, Warrior
4:26
4
Circle Of The Tyrants
Bass – Martin AinDrums – Reed St.MarkVoice [Female] – Claudia-Maria MokriVoice, Guitar, Backing Vocals – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Warrior
4:36
5
The Heart Beneath
Bass – Martin AinDrums – Stephen PriestlyGuitar – Ron MarksLead Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals – Curt Victor BryantVocals [Additional] – Michelle Fischer, Roli MosimannVoice, Guitar, Backing Vocals – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Bryant, Priestly, Warrior
3:50
6
Wings Of Solitude
Backing Vocals – Uta GuntherBass – Curt Victor BryantDrums – Stephen PriestlyGuitar – Ron MarksVocals – Michele AmarVoice – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Warrior
4:35
7
The Inevitable Factor
Bass – Martin AinDrums, Keyboards – Reed St.MarkLead Guitar – Andreas DoblerSoloist [1st Lead] – WarriorSoloist [2nd Lead] – DoblerVoice, Guitar, Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Ain, St.Mark, Warrior
4:45
8
Journey Into Fear
Bass – Martin AinDrums – Reed St.MarkVoice, Guitar – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Warrior
3:53
9
Juices Like Wine
Drums – Stephen PriestlyGuitar, Bass – Curt Victor BryantVoice – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Bryant, Warrior
4:13
10
Mexican Radio
Drums – Stephen PriestlyLead Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals – Curt Victor BryantVocals [Additional] – Voco FauxpasVoice, Guitar, Backing Vocals – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Moreland, Ridgway
3:20
11
The Name Of My Bride
Drums – Stephen PriestlyGuitar, Bass – Curt Victor BryantGuitar, Lead Guitar – Ron MarksVoice, Guitar – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Ain, Warrior
4:30
12
Cherry Orchards
Bass – Curt Victor BryantDrums – Stephen PriestlyGuitar, Lead Guitar – Oliver AmbergLead Vocals [Additional] – Michelle VillanuevaVoice, Guitar, Backing Vocals – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Bryant, Warrior
4:03
13
I Won't Dance (The Elder's Orient)
Backing Vocals – H.C., 1922Bass – Martin AinDrums – Reed St.MarkVoice, Guitar – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Warrior
3:50
14
Return To The Eve
Bass – Martin AinDrums, Vocals – Reed St.MarkVoice [Female] – Claudia-Maria MokriVoice, Guitar – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Ain, Warrior
4:06
15
The Usurper
Bass – Martin AinDrums – Reed St.MarkVoice [Female] – Claudia-Maria MokriVoice, Guitar – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Warrior
3:26
16
Tristesses De La Lune
Backing Vocals – Reed St.MarkCello – Wulf EbertComposed By, Arranged By [Classical Selections] – Lothar Krist, Martin AinConductor – Lothar KristGuitar – Thomas Gabriel WarriorViola – Jurgen PaulmannViolin – Eva Cieslinsky, Malgorzata Blaiejewska WollerVocals – Manu MoanWritten-By – Ain
2:58
17
Downtown Hanoi
Drums, Backing Vocals – Stephen PriestlyGuitar, Bass, Backing Vocals – Curt Victor BryantLead Guitar – Oliver AmbergVoice, Guitar, Backing Vocals – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Bryant, Warrior
4:12
18
In The Chapel In The Moonlight
Backing Vocals – Marchain Regee RotschyBass – Martin AinDrums, Backing Vocals – Reed St.MarkVoice, Guitar – Thomas Gabriel WarriorWritten-By – Hill
2:06
Versions
Category
Artist
Title (Format)
Label
Category
Country
Year
Noise N 191-2
Celtic Frost
Parched With Thirst Am I And Dying (CD, Comp)
Noise International
Noise N 191-2
Germany
1992
N 0329-2
Celtic Frost
Parched With Thirst Am I And Dying (CD, Comp, RE, RM)
Noise Records, Sanctuary, Союз
N 0329-2
Russia
2005
MG 2004
Celtic Frost
Parched With Thirst Am I And Dying Part I (Cass, Comp, Unofficial)
MG Records
MG 2004
Poland
1992
Noise N 191-2
Celtic Frost
Parched With Thirst Am I And Dying (CD, Comp)
Noise International
Noise N 191-2
Germany
Unknown
MG 2005
Celtic Frost
Parched With Thirst Am I And Dying Part II (Cass, Comp, Unofficial)
MG Records
MG 2005
Poland
1992
Credits
Arranged By [All Jams] – Celtic Frost
Artwork, Graphics – Celtic Frost, Istvan Vizner
Band [Celtic Frost] – Curt Victor Bryant, Martin Ain, Stephen Priestly, Thomas Gabriel Warrior
Engineer, Mixed By – Brian Martin (tracks: 2, 6, 9, 16), Voco Fauxpas (tracks: 1, 2, 6, 9, 16 to 18)
Executive-Producer – Karl-Ulrich Walterbach
Legal – Robert Edward Donnelly
Liner Notes – Celtic Frost
Mastered By – Howie Weinberg
Mixed By – Tony Platt (tracks: 7)
Mixed By [Assistant] – Alex Leser (tracks: 2, 6, 9, 16), Andreas Gerhardt (tracks: 2, 6, 9, 16), Michael Herzog (tracks: 2, 6, 9, 16), Michele Amar (tracks: 2, 6, 9, 16), Tom Re (tracks: 2, 6, 9, 16)
Mixed By [Remixed By] – Horst Muller (tracks: 11)
Photography By [Up-To-Date Line-Up] – Nick Matthews
Producer – Celtic Frost (tracks: 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15), Martin Eric Ain (tracks: 3, 10), Roli Mosimann (tracks: 2, 6, 9, 16), Thomas Gabriel Warrior (tracks: 3, 10)
Producer, Mixed By – Horst Muller (tracks: 13)
Recorded By [Re-Recorded By], Mixed By [Remixed By] – Harris Johns (tracks: 3, 10), Voco Fauxpas (tracks: 4, 12)
Recorded By, Engineer – Horst Muller (tracks: 3, 10, 13), Thomas Susstrunk (tracks: 11), Tony Platt (tracks: 4, 12)
Recorded By, Engineer, Mixed By – Jan Nemec (tracks: 5, 8, 14, 15)
Notes
Compilation 1984 - 1992 All tracks remastered 1999
Released by Century Media Records from Brazil. The booklet is similar to the editions from Noise: 16 pages but in a low quality.
Track 1 (Adapted from the 1991 demonstration material for the forthcoming album.)
Track 2 was EP released only (Recorded during the 1989 "Vanity/Nemesis" sessions, this track was only previously released as a very limited EP B-Side in 1990.)
Track 3 is a 1985 Studio Jam (1985 studio jam version of the "Morbid Tales" album track. This version was recorded during the "To Mega Therion" sessions. It was later remixed and the bass was re-recorded. It was released as the B-Side of the limited edition "Tragic Serenades" EP, with the remark "Party Mix".)
Track 4 was re-recorded 1991 (Remixed and partially re-recorded version of the 1988 "Cold Lake" track.)
Track 5 is an unreleased track (The track was to be the B-Side of the "I Won't Dance" EP, but then considered unreleaseable in 1987.)
Track 6 (taken from the album "Vanity/Nemesis", released 1990.)
Track 7 is a radio edit (A tribute to Marilyn Monroe, Radio Edit of the "Cold Lake" album version, 1988.)
Track 8 (This track was originally deleted from the album "Into The Pandemonium" in 1987.)
Track 9 (Taken from the album "Vanity/Nemesis", released 1990.)
Track 10 was re-recorded 1986 (Partially re-recorded and remixed version of the "To Mega Therion" album track. This version was released in spring 1986 on the "Tragic Serenades" EP.
Track 11 is an unreleased track (Later released in the "Emperor's Return" EP. The version featured here was remixed in 1985.)
Track 12 was re-recorded 1991 (Rexmied and partially re-recorded version of the 1988 "Cold Lake" track.)
Track 13 (Taken from the album "To Mega Therion", 1985.)
Track 14 was EP released only (released in 1987 as a one-track promotional EP, called "The Collector's Celtic Frost", limited to 1000 copies, recorded during the "...Pandemonium" sessions. Originally performed by Dean Martin.)
Track 15 is a radio edit (Of the "Into The Pandemonium" album version, 1987.)
Track 16 (Taken from the album "Vanity/Nemesis", released 1990.)
Track 17 is a 1991 studio jam (1991 studio jam of the track that was first released by Celtic Frost on the "Into The Pandemonium" album, in 1987. The song was originally recorded by Wall Of Voodoo.)
Track 18 (Adapted from the 1991 demonstration material for the forthcoming album.)
All selections published by Maldoror Musikverlag, except tracks 1 & 18 by Equinox Publishing; track 14 by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co./Francis Day & Hunter; track 17 by Big Talk/ Illegal Music.
Mastered at Masterdisk, New York. Copyright by Noise International, 1992
Tracks 1, 17 & 18 recorded and mixed at Artag Studio, Zurich, Switzerland, November 1991. Tracks 2, 6, 9 & 16 recorded at Sky Track Studio & Hansa Studios, Berlin, Germany, Fall/Winter 1989. Mixed at Hansa Studios, Winter 1989. Tracks 3 & 10 recorded & engineered at Casablanca Studio, Berlin, Germany, September 1985. Re-recorded & remixed at Music Lab Studio, Berlin, March 1986. Tracks 4 & 12 recorded & engineered at Sky Track Studio & Hansa Studios, Berlin, Germany, and Conny Plank Studio, Cologne, Germany, Summer 1988. Re-recorded & remixed at Artag Studio, Zurich, Switzerland, November 1991. Track 7 recorded at Sky Track Studio & Hansa Studios, Berlin, Germany, and Conny Plank Studio, Cologne, Germany. Mixed at Conny Plank Studio, Fall 1988. Tracks 5, 8, 14 & 15 recorded, engineered & mixed at Horus Sound Studio, Hannover, Germany, January - April 1987. Track 11 recorded & engineered at Line In Studio, Zurich, Switzerland, April 1985. Track 13 recorded, engineered & mixed at Casablanca Studio, Berlin, Germany, September/October 1985.