The band's first LP-length release, it was recorded in 2001, and was issued in 2002 by Three One G.[1][2][3][4][5] In a review for AllMusic, Stewart Mason wrote: "there are elements of death metal in Mick Barr's ultra-shred guitar style and Josh Blair's neck-snapping tempos, but there's at least as much Sonny Sharrock and John Bonham, among other influences you wouldn't expect...

"[1] In a year-end review of 2002's best releases, Brent Burton of the Washington City Paper commented: "In a good-to-great year of hard rockin' art-tweakage..., Orthrelm earns the top-10 nod for having the least comprehensible worldview.

The D.C. instrumental duo's oeuvre all but defenestrates pop tradition in favor of constantly shifting streams of simultaneous guitar and drum solos.

"[6] Author Adam Gnade stated that the album "is like if you took a band and chopped it up into tiny pieces with a chef's knife then glued it back together without any sense of design or a bit of aesthetic intention.

"[7] A writer for Cleveland Scene remarked: "If Derek Bailey were crossed with Yngwie Malmsteen, the result would be Orthrelm's Mick Barr.