Produced by Peter Steele.
Tracks 4 & 14 mixed by Steele.
Track 12 remixed by Charlie Clouser.
Engineered by Michael Marciano, except track 4 engineered by Joe Marciano.
Recorded and mixed at Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY.
Remastered August 2000 by George Marino at Sterling Sound, NYC.
Drums on tracks 1, 3, 7, 10, & 13 by Sal Abruscato.
Sitar and tambura on "12 Black Rainbows" and cat scratch lead on "Stay Out of My Dreams" by Paul Bento.
Backing vocals by The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir.
A compilation of old tracks (most of which are shortened edits) and new material.
An "edited" clean-version CD is also available, this version misses "It's Never Enough" and "Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity" and includes "Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10^-8 cm^3 gm^-1 sec^-2".
Track 6 is a cover of the
Black Sabbath song with the same title, with new lyrics by
Peter Steele, loosely the other side of the original song's story.
The back cover reads "Better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you're not", attributed to Phlogiston Verdigris. It's actually a paraphrase of a quote by french novelist Andre Gide.