The album itself is awesome, all songs, an absolute non topped classic, incredible both musically and "spiritually" and the sound/ production creates a perfect enviroment for this monstrous musical creation, despite of the fact that it results a bit hard to hear all what's going on with every instrument sometimes, but the ambience achieved is like a whole dark world of magic where you can get lost.

However, I have lowered the rating for this particular release due to some circumstances: the remastered sound is worse than the original, IMO, the beautiful original artwork, in both front and back cover, looses a lot with that blue filter used for this reissue, as well as for the silvering of every letter and the Emperor logo and, finally, the bonus tracks are absolutelly out of place.