This is supposed to be a 40th anniversary reissue. Well, it's still this but with year of a delay. It was told enough about the early Metgumbnerbone recordings. We just keep some quotes here.

"Don't be put off by the unpronounceable name or skulls on the cover, 'Ligeliahorn' is brimming with enthusiasm and experiment. It's a completely acoustic (how untrendy!) mixture of ritualised percussion interspersed with whoops and chants that both complement and jar the listener. If I had to use one frame of reference, I'd say that I was heavily reminded of Tibetan ritual music, although Metgumbnerbone manage to get the feel across without any recourse to ethnic instrument, dragging in warpo strains of Balinese religious music. Investigate!" - David Tibet

"Metgumbnerbone were an obscure post-Industrial / Drone / Improv group who had a few releases in the mid-‘80s with the ‘Ligeliahorn’ LP being the only one to get beyond the short-run productions of cassette culture. The four mainly improvised tracks were recorded in an abandoned factory employing various woodwind and percussive instruments and whatever industrial debris was lying around, creating a sustained rhythmic clatter and acoustic dronescapes which fluctuate into recognisable cyclic patterns and out towards sparse pipe fights. Their junkyard sound was always much colder, more sedate than the apocalyptic pummel of Test Department or Einsturzende Neubauten, despite their similar instrumentation. Metgumbnerbone are an ensemble whose recordings have become fetish objects from the most obtuse regions of Industrial culture." - Aquarius

"Essentially, 'Ligeliahorn' is an artefact in sound in which there’s much blowing of horns and rattlings and rhythmic / arhythmic banging on metal and other unidentifiable instruments and/or objects. An entirely live, on location ceremonial improvisation / action in which the location itself determined the outcome as much as did the performers and their instruments. What is it that makes someone follow a calling that is difficult, ritualistic and comprehensively occluded from the norm? 'Ligeliahorn' personifies everything about the reasons behind experimental music." - David Cotner, Freq

"Metgumbnerbone had been recording ritualistic performances at locations such as abandoned railway tunnels and industrial ruins for some time, before core member John Mylotte edited several of them into this album. Filled with metal objects being thrown around and massive reverb, 'Ligeliahorn' is the perfect soundtrack to a creepy scrapyard visit at full-moon gone wrong." - Freek Kinkelaar, Record Collector

"There was a period some time ago where it seemed that the horror industry ever beat on a single button: underground. And from here a lot of products of fluctuating quality but always immersed in the bowels of the earth. But there was already someone in the early '80s who had created a deep and dry sound, more disturbing than ever, that unlike many 'historical' Industrial records, used free improvisation and 'found' percussions as its most deadly weapons... 'Ligeliahorn’ was a record ahead of its years which soon slipped into the most absolute and secrecy cult, fading into myth. Four untitled tracks, simply based on various types of percussions (bones, walls, floors, metals, woods, chains, etc.) and fragments of samples that completed the picture, giving it a menacing and sinister aura (voices lost in the deep, deformed trumpets and violins.) It's the scraping of the Titans against the bronze bars of their prison in Tartarus, the hunter's breath who heels his prey, the myriad of imaginary sounds that only the most impenetrable darkness of an abandoned factory may suggest. All of this and more in one of the most obscure and rare records of the golden age of Industrial music. Magnificent and essential." - Drexciyen Star Chamber