Metal.de bestowed 4 of 10 points upon the record, stating that Stormhammer brought little new besides "the typical standard power metal cliches".
[1] Paul Schwarz of the web zine Chronicles of Chaos similarly lamented the lack of innovation, save for "a decent lick here and there".
"I find Stormhammer hard enough to tolerate for a few songs; listening to all 55 minutes of this creative dinosaur gives me the martyred feeling of suffering for my art".
[2] Borås Tidning in Sweden called Stormhammer a "shit band" and their album "excrement".
[4] The specialist website Powermetal.de also found that Fireball would "definitely hit most true metal lovers", and that "one probably shouldn't miss" Steamhammer's autumn 2000 tour with Morgana Lefay, Steel Prophet and Angel Dust.