the band's myspace page credits regurgitate, hemdale, nasum and blood duster as formative influences for the group. jan hallaert has also cited hateplow, bury your dead, burnt by the sun, yob, the sword, converge, neurosis, mastodon, aborted, ringworm, morbid angel, hatebreed, torche, suffocation, fu manchu, and cephalic carnage.