The transition in style that Goatlord underwent between the releases of "Demo '87" and the "Sodomize the Goat" demo in 1988 began to expose some differences in the individual members' visions for the band's future direction. These differences in musical visions aside, "Reflections of the Solstice" followed much in the same vein as the "Sodomize the Goat" demo. In fact, every song on the album had also been previously recorded for the 1988 demo, and the band continued to masterfully fuse frenetically-paced death/thrash segments with more tortured, black/doom dirges. Notwithstanding the fact that over the years some have unfairly criticized this particular aspect of the album, the unnatural sound of the drums should instead be considered and appreciated as yet another bizarre anecdote in the band's development, which simply adds another important dimension to Goatlord's historic significance.