[6] HM Magazine editor Doug Van Pelt called Human Sacrifice "the most radical Christian album ever released".

[7] The lyrics of Human Sacrifice retell several major points of Christ's ministry: His incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and Second Coming.

Causing further issues for the band, some Christians, noting the unusual vocal and musical style, labeled the release as demonic.

[8] These issues, along with the cover image which featured the pierced hand of Bob Beeman (founder of Sanctuary International) caused the album to be pulled from the shelves of some Christian bookstores.

[8][9] Musically, Human Sacrifice focuses on brutal thrash metal in vein of Dark Angel, old Death and Slayer.

[10] In the Summer 2006 issue of Revolver magazine's The Revolver Record Collection section, guest writer Doug Van Pelt provided a list of ten recommended Christian metal albums in which Human Sacrifice was mentioned, stating that "In daring to be sonically scary, Human Sacrifice bumped up the credibility of Christian metal several notches.

Has only one blemish (probably the worst audio engineering glitch of all time) – a bad vocal edit, which comes in at 2:02 during the song "Burn".