Organic brutality, viscera and groove all crammed into a 54-minute metalicious treat, best avoided by the faint of heart!!

Jens Kidman who retired from guitar playing since the album Contradictions Collapse composed "Behind the Sun".

It was released as a standard compact disc, as a digipak version featuring a bonus DVD, as a limited edition boxed set "magic cube" (a mock-Rubik's Cube featuring the album artwork, available only through Nuclear Blast mail-order), and a double-LP pressed on brown vinyl.

[3] The album debuted at number 17 in the United States, with first week sales of 18,342 copies, the band's and record label's highest position on the charts.

[6] Kory Grow of Spin Magazine called it "the first real contender for the genre's album of the year".