 "Rock Hard" journalist Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann called them the "kings of the Westwall", "legendary protagonists" and "by far the most important German black metal band of the so-called second generation" whose three albums "let the scene […] explode".He called their debut album "the most important German black metal album", placed on rank 16 of 25 on the magazine's list "Die 25 wichtigsten Black-Metal-Alben aller Zeiten" ('the 25 most important black metal albums of all times').Their two following albums were featured on the magazine's list "250 Black-Metal-Alben, die man kennen sollte" ('250 black metal albums you should know').