"[5] In a review for All About Jazz, Sammy Stein wrote: "Sharrock's guitar is a perfect antidote to Brotzmann's style—heavy, metallic and dextrous.

"[6] The Free Jazz Collective's Martin Schray called the album "a lesson in listening, a recording about communication, a real duo performance," and stated: "A surprising trademark of this album is the contrast between quiet, meditative, almost mellow passages which are confronted with brutal, distorted and wild parts... it's an emotional back and forth that structures the music but also affords the listener's permanent concentration.

"[7] Derek Taylor of Dusted Magazine commented: "the entire performance is recorded hot and gives the aural illusion of mics placed both in the innards of Sharrock's amplifier and the bells of Brötzmann's various horns.

The effect... only adds to the visceral immediacy of duo's extended onslaught... By concert's end it's easy to envision the lucky audience in the aftermath with blown back domes and blissed-out grins, picking up their thoroughly-fried faculties from the floor.

"[10] In an article for Louisville Music News, Martin Z. Kasdan Jr. wrote: "The album is strictly duet playing, but the high energy level of Brötzmann... and Sharrock is such that the lack of other instruments is not a drawback... the musicians reach sometimes cacophonous heights, swirling like banshees, seemingly invoking gods and demons...