I don't quite know how to review the albums that already became classic ones. More or less everyone, interested in industrial music and I think especially these that came to it from metal, knows MZ.412, knows that they are the founders of black industrial genre etc. Currently Cold Spring is reissuing remastered records of MZ.412 - even a special collector's edition is planned - box with 5 digiCDs, 5" vinyl and various bonuses. This disc is one of five that will be included in a special edition. Cover art differs from the original one (the same front artwork will be used for all discs that are rereleased) and if you want to keep the black digiCD in good looking condition, you'll have to do your best for every fingerprint is seen on the digi. Together with the old MZ.412 tracks from the album, released in 1995 via CMI, there are 3 additional, unpublished tracks. Somehow I feel that these are from the same period as In Nomine Dei  Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi itself. The worst thing I could think of, before listening to this CD, was that I'll hear cleared and purified sound "with new digital technologies", but no. The sound of songs is cleaner and clearer, but the main thing - atmosphere and mood of the album with that gloomy and nihilistic industrial feeling is the same. Dark and heavy rhythmic loops, distant samples and live instruments, noise generators, ritualistic atmosphere and short calmer, lighter places - all that goes together in this disc with playing time of more than an hour. Since I see no reason to describe old tracks, I'd like to mention the newer ones that were never published and included in this release. In Ritual of Blood and Oath - noise generator, distant chanting of a man (in fact I'm not sure about it and it might be just another instrument), static notes of synth, samples, rhythmic loop and growing tension and layers of sound becoming louder and louder towards the end of the track. Surge 2 - heavy, rhythmic and nice track that sounds like a model track of rhythmic noise. Infinite Hollow - slightly lighter touches of ambient in this album. From melancholic melodies of synthesizer in the beginning to loops of metal clangs and rhythm that finally sinks back to synth melodies. All in all, I'm happy for this step of Cold Spring to rerelease these old, classic albums and for a chance to hear these songs anew for I don't quite remember when was the last time I've listened to this dark, hatred-driven Nordic industrial project myself. It's a good opportunity to blow away the dust from reminiscences and to enjoy the newly sounding songs.

Format: CD
Released: 2010
Label: Cold Spring