[3] The black-and-white music video for "Hexagram" showed excited fans entering a building to watch a live performance of the song.

As such, the majority of the video focused on this performance, with small exceptions like a shirtless, incapacitated Chino Moreno lying on the floor during the moody bridge.

In contrast to the single's minimal radio play, the "Hexagram" video earned significant rotation on the more underground-oriented Headbangers Ball and Uranium in late 2003.

In reviewing Deftones, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that "Hexagram", the album's opener, "hits hard—harder than they ever have, revealing how mushy Staind is, or how toothless Linkin Park is".

[4] Betty Clarke of The Guardian negatively criticized Moreno's rough vocals on the song for its melancholic nature.