Background and Recording
The lyrics to "The Golden Walls of Heaven" and "Dies Irae" are acrostics: the first letters of each line spell out words, namely "SATAN" (repeated eight times) and "CHRIST THE BASTARD SON OF HEAVEN".
The lyrics to "For All Those Who Died" were taken from a poem by Erica Jong, first published in her book Witches (1981), while first three verses of "A Fine Day to Die" are taken from "Cassilda's Song" of Robert W. Chambers' "The King in Yellow".
The front cover comes from the painting Åsgårdsreien (1872) by Peter Nicolai Arbo.
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