 Gabe Kagan, writing for Invisible Blog, also spoke favorably of the album, calling it "the soundtrack to the literary works of E. T. A. Hoffmann".In 2017, the album was featured in "Loudwire" list of the Top 30 Black Metal Albums of All Time, in 27th place.The "Jilemnický okultista" demo tape, self-released in February 1992, contains a slightly different track listing, and was recorded on an Apple Macintosh IIci, a novelty in the Czech Republic at the time.