Stereogum skriver om Darkthrone 's album F.O.A.D.:
"F.O.A.D. is the first album since '95's Panzerfaust on which Fenriz was in charge of the artwork, and he commissioned graphic artist Dennis Dread to draw something for the band — here, Dread created for Darkthrone a mascot, much like Iron Maiden's Eddie: Mr. Necro. Dread drew covers for the next two Darkthrone albums, too (though he's absent from the forthcoming The Underground Resistance), both of which follow the undead mascot through his Darkthrone-inspired fantasy-punk adventures, and the three albums featuring Dread artwork feel like something of a trilogy. On the whole, F.O.A.D. is probably the least essential piece of that trilogy, but its highlights are as good anything on the albums that would follow."