 The album title, a Latin term meaning "for the greater glory of Satan", was conceived by Infernus inspired by his reading an article about the Counter-Reformation, the Society of Jesus and Ignatius de Loyola.It is technically incorrectly translated; the accurate translation of Latin for "The Greater Glory of Satan" would be "Ad Majorem Sathanae Gloriam".The cover artwork was taken from the 1850 painting "Dante and Virgil" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.