The Entertainment Weekly review of Nemesisters said that the group delivered an album that "at times actually skirts power pop" but that the results were "still fairly punishing, but there is a reward for listeners who stick it out to the last cut" and the Allmusic review gave the album two out of five stars, noting "most of the raw, slashing guitars of their early records are gone, replaced by a pulsing, plodding grind that never catches fire...the majority of the album is simply dull, recycled riffs and rhythms, and that is hard to forgive."
Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly wrote of the album: "Believe it or not, these Minneapolis ragecore queens have toned down their maximum-stridency shtick a tad, delivering an album that at times actually skirts power pop (check out "Sweet '69"). The result is still fairly punishing, but there's a reward for listeners who stick it out to the last cut: a killer version of Sister Sledge's "We Are Family." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic awarded the album two out of five stars, noting: "Most of the raw, slashing guitars of their early records are gone, replaced by a pulsing, plodding grind that never catches fire...the majority of the album is simply dull, recycled riffs and rhythms, and that is hard to forgive." 
