The album version of "Testure" is a five-minute track with smooth electronics, fretless bass, and a profusion of samples from Martin Rosen's 1982 film The Plague Dogs.

This version, remixed and re-edited by Skinny Puppy's own cEvin Key and Dave Ogilvie,[6] also begins with a protracted series of samples from The Plague Dogs.

[8] It charted at place nineteen and spent five weeks on Billboards's Dance Club Songs,[9][10] making it Skinny Puppy's most successful single.

[11][8] "The Second Opinion", which also appeared appended to the end of VIVIsectVI's CD release,[12] includes the line "that machine has got to be destroyed" from Stuart Gordon's 1986 adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's From Beyond.

[13] "Cage", which originally appeared on Skinny Puppy's 1987 single "Chainsaw", concludes with the line "It's just a little blood... it'll wash out" from William Lustig's 1980 horror film, Maniac.

[16] The video, despite depicting vivisection in "vivid detail", was broadcast on Horizon, the Soviet Union's primary satellite channel, as a critique on materialism.