"As the closing track of the 'Rat King' album, 'Empty Threat' encompasses all that PATHETIC's journey has expressed since day one, with epic guitar riffing, driving drums, and focused lyrics that mock the everlasting fear of nuclear apocalypse the United States has held since the beginning of the cold war. This is the closing track that forewarns the impending destruction that the United States has and continues to impose on other nations in protecting its own irrational fear of destruction."