The re-release also features two songs from Necrophagist's 1995 self-titled demo tape. The whole album was also engineered by long time Necrophagist engineer and producer Christoph Brandes at The Iguana Studios. It was mastered by Bob Katz at "Digital Domain", Orlando, Florida. The re-release was issued in 2004 by Willowtip Records in America/Canada and Relapse Records in the rest of the world.

Necrophagist is a technical death metal band from Germany. Founded and fronted by Turkish guitarist/vocalist Muhammed Suiçmez. The band is widely recognized and appreciated for their highly technical compositions. Mainly noted for their immaculate sweeping techniques heard on "Onset of Putrefaction" and "Epitaph" written and performed by Muhammed.

Death was an influential American death metal band founded in 1983 by guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner, and dissolved in 1999. They are widely credited as the creators of the death metal genre, from the release of their first demo in 1984. The band's label debut Scream Bloody Gore is considered a template of the genre, described as death metal's first archetypal document.Schuldiner was the only member to remain in the band from start to end. Music biographers have referred to Schuldiner as the father of death metal.