Lions (band) for Allmusic, Eduardo Rivadavia states that Lions "boldly attempts to straddle the hard rock decades" making comparisons to the bands ZZ Top, Queens of the Stone Age, Nebula and Fu Manchu. He goes on to state that while "there's definite room for improvement" the EP "is a very promising first step [for the band]." The band soon gained record label attention from Rock Ridge Music and Roadrunner Records. Though Roadrunner helped to fund the recording of their debut album, they decided against signing the band. The band performed at SXSW '07, which led to the song "Metal Heavy Lady," from
Pasta ZZ Pasta ZZ Pasta ZZ was a former Yugoslav new wave band from Belgrade, notable as participants in the "Artistička Radna Akcija" project in 1981. The band was formed by vocalist Đorđe Lukić and guitarists Branislav Petrović "Banana" Srđan Debeljković, bass guitarist Višeslav Orinčić, drummer Dragoslav Radojković and . The only recordings the band released were two songs, "F.G. & Acreppy", written by Petrović and Lukić, and "Drakula" ("Dracula"), written by Petrović, released on the "Artistička radna akcija" ("Artistic Work Action") compilation of various artists in 1981, featuring the second generation of the Belgrade new wave and punk rock bands. After