"calculating infinity" has since been lauded as a landmark release for the band and the genre. "rolling stone" ranked it the 56th greatest metal album of all-time in a 2017 feature, praising the release for featuring "an underlying logic, [and] a sense of structure that lifted songs ... to a realm above the noise and fury of everyday hardcore". "metal hammer" columnist stephen hill claimed that the album "changed the face of metal" and demonstrated that the members of the band were "serious and inventive musicians, not just one dimensional noisemongers". writing for metalsucks, amy sciaretto suggested that "calculating infinity" was the album "that made dillinger so revered by the metal underground, and obviously, those listening to metal", while "alternative press" writer colin mcguire described the album as "one of the most influential collections of experimental metal the genre has seen in the last two decades". metal injection ranked "calculating infinity" as the sixth best debut album in heavy metal in a 2016 feature, while loudwire included the album at number ten on a similar list, with writer graham hartmann hailing it as "the most spastic, mathematical, chaotic and contradicting metal album ever released". loudwire later listed the record third on their list of "25 best metalcore albums of all-time".