[3] According to Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic, the album "suggested that Watain were, at best, content to produce intentionally crude facsimiles of inspirational forefathers ranging from Bathory to Mayhem and, at worst, unable to do anything else".

At least it does not sound as whatever cheap fucking 'primitive, cult, limited, true underground Black Metal' shit out there, which is a relief.

A dead, decayed bird represents to me the death of freedom, and the beauty that lies in the silent process of its way into ashes and dirt.

It also visualises the idea of the "Rabid Death's Curse" quite well, the molten dead lying in slumber, unconsiously [sic] walking towards the unescapable claws of Satan!

"[3] Rivadavia wrote that although Rabid Death's Curse "suggested that Watain were, at best, content to produce intentionally crude facsimiles of inspirational forefathers ranging from Bathory to Mayhem and, at worst, unable to do anything else", "the Swedes were really just finding their feet" and the album "fulfills an important function in Watain's career arc, one that the casual listener need never pay heed to, but which loyal fans will likely want to explore at some point in order to better comprehend all that followed".