 Dave Schalek observed in About.com that the album featured stronger songwriting than previous album "The Hunt", with many of the songs assuming an "anthem-like quality".Describing Grand Magus as "one of the coolest working the heavy circuit today", Greg Pratt wrote in Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles that the band's traditionalist approach to heavy metal was "meaty, weighty, metal, and proud".Greg Fisher of Sputnik Music similarly described the band as a "prime traditional metal purveyor" and suggested that "Triumph and Power" was "nothing short of triumphant" in that it "clearly matches up to the output of the luminaries that have inspired it".