In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote that the album "could serve as the soundtrack of a war," and commented: "The violent interplay between Caspar Brotzmann's acid rock guitar feedback... and Peter Brotzmann's bass sax, tenor, clarinet and tarogato... at first is quite jarring. However frequent playing of the CD (it if does not drive one nuts) reveals a logic to the free improvisations. It may not thrill one's neighbors at 3 am. but the performances are certainly quite stimulating and creative. Intense sound explorations."
