The band was heavily criticized in Sweden for their lyrics at the time when the album was released.It received many positive reviews in the press when it was released. It was the band's breakthrough album in Europe. Joakim admitted they used them, because they were for free. The Sun Tzu's quotes from the book read by a female voice are taken from LibriVox's audiobook version of the book, which follows the Lionel Giles translation.The artwork for the album was created by Jobert Mello of Sledgehammer Graphix.It was Joakim's idea to create lyrics around Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" book.This is the band's first concept album.
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