It was released on April 14, 1993, by Roadrunner Records and it contains remixes of songs from the first album Soul of a New Machine.

Remixes 1–5 were created by Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb of Front Line Assembly.

The EP was remastered and re-released on October 5, 2004, in a digipak, packaged together with the remastered Soul of a New Machine without "Self Immolation".

The title of the record is a quote from "Litany against fear", a fictional incantation from Dune, the science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert.

When playing live in the 1990s, the band would occasionally play a variation of the Deep Dub Trauma remix of "Scumgrief", rather than the original.