[7] Here they recorded the songs "Satan My Master" and "Witchcraft", which would later appear on the compilation album Jubileum Volume III.

[8] The pentagram was moved to the back and replaced with a re-touched portion of a drawing made by Joseph A. Smith in 1981 for the book Witches by Erica Jong.

[13] According to Swedish Death Metal, Quorthon thought it looked "awful", and after the first 1000 pressings it was switched to black-and-white.

[13] While Bathory leader Quorthon claimed to have not heard Venom before making the album[13] and to be inspired by Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Sex Pistols, and GBH,[14] former drummer Jonas Åkerlund claimed that Bathory was "exclusively" inspired by Venom during these days.

AllMusic critic Rob Ferrier wrote: "The music itself has a certain lo-fi charm, and if you're into this sort of thing the raw power of this debut cannot be ignored.

"[4] Also writing for AllMusic, Eduardo Rivadavia has stated that the record and its follow-up The Return…… were "so inaccessible, so unprecedented in their abrasive anti-commercialism, as to be ahead of their time, carving a niche all their own within this quickly developing subgenre.

"[16] Canadian journalist Martin Popoff called the album "a cruel joke but a historically poignant one" and remarked how, despite striving "to be the leading edge of repellent extreme", Quorthon's debut is very musical "versus the black-hearted Norwegian acts" that would cite him as a main influence.