There are some analogies though between "The Day Ends" EP and "Devil's Nectar". Both records starting softer, with songs that having almost radio compatible touch, and first only the evident Pantera influences showing up frequently. Later the themes turning noisier, slower and the band introduces their heavier side. But while "The Day Ends" was a kinda simpler, bipolar EP, "Devil's Nectar" was like a mashup of at least 3 evident main influences, that proved to be well working in the mainstream scene. The audience friendlier form of stoner rock is represented by possibly Queens of the Stone Age influences switched frequently by groovy southern rock themes, and of course strong Pantera references. For the heavier, stoner/doom riffs must wait until the 7th song of the album. This mashup could be taken as experimenting, but applying methods that previously proved to be well working for other pretty known bands, tells more about the result some sort of rehearsal room jamming, like "let's see what could we make from all of grandma's recipes". From this perspective Apey and the Pea inherited 2 of the most typical "illnesses" of Hungarian bands: the lack of determination or common ground, and the preference for ripping off bigger names evidently. Only this time the production was way better than usual. Since stoner rock, groove metal and southern rock are closely related styles and they could be mixed easily, the album became unified, even if Apey and the Pea is way more technical than most stoner/doom bands supposed to be, and this wasn't really helpful in reaching unified sound. The problem here came from the lack of self-identity that happened because the strongest character signs of the album are kinda trademark features of pretty well known big names of the mainstream metal scene, that might be difficult to confuse with anyone else. In total "Devil's Nectar" was good for a try but not good as an experiment, worked well as a mashup, but failed as a band's self-introduction.
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