When "the Black Order" was founded back then in 1995, there was no intention to release some music in the near future. The main problem was to find a consistent permanent drummer that met the expectations of the group. A permanent session member was found in C.Grimthorn of Grimthorns Forest so the first plans to record some of the material were made in late 1998.

The promo 2002 was the first EP "The Black Order" recorded to show some material of the upcoming album "Supremacy". Though the promo CD was released by themself , it received outstanding reviews from Zines like Legacy, Ablaze and laut.de

The Ablaze magazine wrote in their zine 08/2002: "With vobiscum satanas - Dark Funeral proclaimed they made the most evil album ever released.... they never heard of these fanatics from Austria/Norway .. its cacophonic misanthropic raw and harsh black metal has claimed this throne..."

A few times later, the young austrian Label Steel Art Records released the promo 2002 CD as "The executioners of mankind" MCD over Europe.

You can read the review of the Legacy Magazine in German here:
follow the link:
archiv.legacy.de/re-views/item/9941-the-black-order-promo-2002

English translation: (Via Google Translator)
Open your mouth wide, here comes highly poisonous power food for the toughest and the most uncompromising Black Metal fanatics among you! In four rabid songs, THE BLACK ORDER shun all harmony laws of the entire known music theory within 17 minutes. The martial and harsh hustle and bustle of the trio consisting of Mastema, Moloch and Morturom (including session Hammermeister Count Grimthorn) is of really obsessive vehemence and speechless making emotionless world contempt. Violent club sound from the roughest so that has only one goal: to be extreme. That's what matters here. Goal achieved. Therefore, this massive promo 2002 charm is intentionally made as rough as possible, if you can call it that. The audibly malicious threesome of execution does not leave a single damned doubt as to how its version of apocalyptic and diabolical end-time black steel sounds through the musical extremism introduced here: gruff, cold, mangy, inhumane and above all manic misanthropic - an orgasmic bloodlust in four acts. Atmospheric breaks are available here, but extremely rare - breathers from the merciless nocturnal hunt therefore also. The band name has a very interesting historical background from the Templerhistorie, from which I think musically could have done a little more. The band certainly sees it differently, the intended clientele too. aesthetes: Stay away! Purists: Clap the part, for such originality and morbid obsession have become rare in the genre. This assures this silverling its full justification 09/10 points