[3] Vorphalack, Samael's guitarist and singer, described the experience of recording the album with Claude Lander: He never heard someone screaming their lungs out in the studio, so for him it was kind weird and he probably didn't consider it to be music, but at least he tried to do his best with the knowledge he had.

[3]Samael's initial influences were Slayer, Bathory, Venom and early Possessed, plus NWOBHM acts Motörhead and Iron Maiden.

[5] Vorphalack claims that when he heard Apocalyptic Raids he thought: 'Wow, this is something that I can do, that I can dig and that I can do my own way,' because most of the metal bands at the time were very technical, they had a wide range of possibility, whereas we were more limited.

I used to say it back in the day, it was more about feelings than melody or technique, I was just trying to create something that [would cause people to] find themselves in a different dimension or world somehow.

Although he never offered Samael a deal with Deathlike Silence Productions label, Euronymous regretted not releasing Worship Him, which he deemed an outstanding record.