"Takasago Army" reached No. 109 on Japan's Oricon music chart, and the video for the song "Takao" was nominated for the 2012 Golden Melody Award in Taiwan for best music video. The album was featured in the international metal magazines "Revolver", "Terrorizer", and "Metal Hammer", and was named the year's best melodic black metal album by the critics' webzine "Metal Storm". Furthermore, "Boulevard Brutal", a French music critics' site, selected "Takasago Army" as the best black metal album of the year; and the Japanese rock magazine "Burrn!!" awarded the band a No. 7 rank for best album of the year and No. 23 for best heavy metal band.