Reception and Legacy
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Pitchfork | (9.0/10) |
| Rolling Stone | (negative) |
| Sputnikmusic | |
| Ivan Kaledin | |
Blue Cheer's debut album has widely been held in high regard by critics. Writing for music website Allmusic, Mark Deming described Vincebus Eruptum as "a glorious celebration of rock & roll primitivism run through enough Marshall amps to deafen an army", praising the band's "sound and fury" as one of the founding movements of heavy metal. The album has also been identified as an "All Music Guide Album Pick", denoting that it is one of the top albums recommended by the Allmusic critics. Pitchfork reviewer Alexander Linhardt gave the album nine out of a maximum ten points, although noted that the album was less structured and more experimental than its successor Outsideinside. Sputnikmusic offered the song an "Excellent" rating of four out of five, with reviewer Joe Katz praising the album as "one of the heaviest blues albums in existence", noting the "Raw production and quality keep it fresh in the world of squeaky clean classic rock sounds."
Online music service Rhapsody included Vincebus Eruptum in its list of the "10 Essential Proto-Metal Albums", suggesting that the band "not only inspired the term 'power trio,' they practically invented heavy metal."
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