The Lords was a Dutch ZX Spectrum group from Roosendaal known as one of the earliest dedicated demogroups. ^[1] The Lords released several demos for the ZX Spectrum home computer between the years 1986 and 1990. ^[2] Groups such as The Lords are regarded as early pioneers of what came to be known as the demoscene. They were especially noted for their sound-chip skills. ^[3]

In some respects they mirrored The Judges, a "rivaling" Commodore 64 group also from Roosendaal, to the extent that concepts, artwork and even titles were identical between the two groups.

Their demo Quinquagesima was given a review of 78% in the September 1992 issue of Your Sinclair ^[3] - three years after it was released in 1989. Some of their productions was put as covermounts, for instance The Apple Movie on Outlet issue 107 ^[4] and Quinquagesima on Outlet issue 070. ^[5]

In later years, they released some of their demos for the SAM Coupé and two games: a freeware version of Tetris in 1990 ^[6] (also published as a covermount on Fred issue 3) and an Arkanoid clone named Batz 'n Balls ^[7] in 1992, both to very good reviews. ^{[8] [9]}

In 1994 two of the members, Lord Insanity and Scrunk, did a series of articles about demos for the paper-based magazine ZAT. ^[1]

• Lord Insanity (David Gommeren)
• Scrunk (Rob Mies)
• Thing (Michiel Koolen)
• Zoinks (Eric Damstra)

• The Lords at World of Spectrum
• The Lords at Demotopia
• The Lords at World of SAM