The album received critical acclaim from publications like Maximum Rock'N'Roll and Hit List, and toured the U.S. with Italian hardcore band Raw Power.
Following performances with many other national acts, including The Casualties, Vice Squad, MDC, Funeral Dress, and others, and a brief 2002 tour, internal friction led to Andler's departure.
[citation needed] Prior to Mapleshade's release of Naked Before God and Country, music photographer and art critic Eldon Baldwin summed the band up as "a surly, uncontrived blend of The Ramones, Stiff Little Fingers, the Beatles, Johnny Cash and The Clash".
In 2008, Burgess played guitar with the band for one show (opening for Eddie and the Hot Rods at the Sidebar), shortly after becoming a Baltimore City Firefighter.
Shows from 2005 to 2016 include opening for The Briefs, Clit 45, The Brutal Dildos, American Distress, The Blood, HR, World Inferno Friendship Society, The Goons, U.S.
Bombs, Vice Squad, The Ripovs, So Damn Thirsty, Chelsea Graveyard, Dead Roses, Rustbuckit, the aptly-named "Asshole Fest", and others.
On August 28, 2011, in the midst of Hurricane Irene, Sunday, Israel, Carl, Schaffer, and Andler all shared the stage at Baltimore's Sidebar, opening for The Queers as part of BiMA.fest 2011.