 It is the first Gorgoroth album with no Norwegian lyrics.In November 2007, "Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam" was reissued with a slightly different cover and a DVD containing the "Carving a Giant" music video and another video documenting how the album was recorded.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.