While not a commercial success at the time, the album (which was reissued in 2008) was later called one of the best records in the history of Dutch pop music by Trouw.

[4] The singles "So Mean" and "Indian Wallpaper" were successful in the underground scene, but the 1986 album With Love From The Boys, released by Polydor, broke through to a broader audience, selling 8000 copies.

[9] Hoping to reach a larger audience, the band performed at the New Music Seminar in New York in 1988, but success in the United States never came about.

In February 1989, Rossini and Schrader left the band and were replaced by Marc Lamb en Arno Kooy from The Agentz.

Rumors of a cooperation with John Cale had persisted, but Angelbite is produced by Steve Parker (who had worked with British band The Fall and Dutch singer Mathilde Santing), and recorded at ICP studios in Brussels.

Te Bos returned to his old profession, graphic design; the band released one more CD, Will-o-the-Wisp (recorded in Smecky Barrandov Studio in Prague, and produced by Henk Jonkers and Frank van der Weij), and played one more memorable show: in 1998, they played in Paradiso in Amsterdam, performing covers of Iggy and the Stooges as part of the "Marlboro Flashback" series, which even gave the Claw Boys Claw the rare opportunity for a TV-special.

According to Te Bos, he and Cameron had written some seventy songs since 2002,[14] some of which were released in February 2008 on Pajama Day, on the Belgian label Play It Again Sam.

[2] Most critics noted that the Claw Boys Claw had dialed down the volume, but still praised the album—Belgian weekly HUMO said that the album contained the most exciting rock songs they had heard in years and gave it four out of five stars,[15] and while the reviewer from De Recensent found only three worthwhile songs on the CD,[14] the Dutch paper De Volkskrant thought it a brooding and dark album containing "beautiful secrets.

"[16] Dutch music magazine Muziekkrant OOR concurred, calling the album "swamp rock" full of tension, and "a record to take to bed.