Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Chronicles of Chaos | (8/10) |
| Negura | (8/10) |
Phormula and Rephormula received generally positive reviews. A writer in the Romanian magazine Negura said: "It's full of magic and mystery and you can sense there’s a whole (alchemic) process going on at the same beside the music." Jason Taylor of Allmusic said that the album "is certainly one of the most intriguing black metal albums to be released." He also praised the reissue as a "welcome introduction" to the duo's music. The webzine Chronicles of Chaos praised the album's tempo as "simultaneously innovative and enjoyable." Stylus Magazine reviewer Cosmo Lee stated that Phormula "ran Norwegian black metal through a funhouse of electronics and demented wackiness." Regarding the use of a drum machine, critics were of different opinions; Pedro Azevedo of Chronicles of Chaos considered it "well used despite some less than perfect passages", while Negura's writer saw what he called "electronic drums" (a drum machine was used) as the only negative aspect of the album.
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