"The past is alive - the early mischief" ist kein weiteres Dissection-Album, sondern eine Zusammenstellung von frühen EPs und Promos. Es enthält auch zwei Tracks von Satanized, der ehemaligen Band von Jon Nödtveidt.

Tracklist:
1 Dissection – Shadows Over A Lost Kingdom
2 Dissection – Frozen
3 Dissection – Feathers Fell
4 Dissection – Son Of The Mourning
5 Dissection – Mistress Of The Bleeding Sorrow
6 Dissection – In The Cold Winds Of Nowhere
7 Dissection – Into Infinite Obscurity
8 Dissection – The Call Of The Mist
9 Dissection – Severed Into Shreds
10 Satanized – Satanized
11 Satanized – Born In Fire
12 Dissection – Where Dead Angels Lie
13 Dissection – Elizabeth Bathori


Tracks 1, 4 and 7 were recorded in September 1991 at TBV Studios, Smogen, Sweden. Taken from Into Infinite Obscurity.
Tracks 2, 3, 5 and 6 were recorded in March 1992 at TBV Studios, Smogen, Sweden. Taken from "The Somberlain" Promo-92.
Track 8 was recorded in December 1990 at Strömstad Studios, Strömstad, Sweden. Taken from The Grief Prophecy.
Track 9 taken from a rehearsal tape, spring 1990.
Tracks 10 and 11 taken from a rehearsal tape, summer 1991.
Tracks 12 and 13 not mentioned on the back