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The band's debut single, a cover of the Kinks' "You Really Got Me", reached number 36 in the US.

According to Rolling Stone Joe Levy, the album "gave the world a new guitar hero and charismatic frontman" in Eddie Van Halen and Roth, respectively. Levy credits "Runnin' with the Devil" and "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" with "put[ting] the swagger back in hard rock", praising Eddie Van Halen's "jaw-dropping technique", which "raised the bar for rock guitar".

In 1994, Van Halen was ranked number eight in Colin Larkin's Top 50 Heavy Metal Albums. Larkin described it as "one of the truly great" debut albums of heavy metal.

According to Rolling Stone Holly George-Warren, "Black Sabbath was the heavy metal king of the 70s." Although initially "despised by rock critics and ignored by radio programmers", the group sold more than 8 million albums by the end of the decade.

According to authors Gary Graff and Daniel Durchholz, writing in MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, Van Halen is a "headbanger's paradise".

It was the band's only Top 20 hit.

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