In November 2019, Hymns to the Stone was reissued as part of a 3-CD digipack and remastered edition by the Dutch music label Burning World Records.

[1] AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia gave the record 2.5 stars, and affirmed that "while fellow U.K. acts like Cathedral and Paradise Lost were bogging down compulsively into their fondness for monolithic, down-tuned Black Sabbath riffs, Acrimony had more in common with American groups like Monster Magnet, Fu Manchu, and Kyuss, whose influences also included elements of psych, acid, and space rock.

"[2] Reviewing the 2019 reissue, J.J. Koczan from The Obelisk reflected also on the importance of the album for the U.K. heavy underground rock scene: "The overarching sound of Hymns to the Stone shows some of its age these 25 years after the fact, but that hardly makes it less righteous.

The guitars of Stu O'Hara and Lee Davies, Paul Bidmead's bass and Darren Ivey's drums managed to take some influence from the grunge that was saturating the US at the time, meld it with their own history in metal, and add more than a flourish of Sabbathian undertones — looking at you, "Spaced Cat #6" — and create something new from it.

Cathedral had embraced something of a rocking side with their 1993 sophomore outing, The Ethereal Mirror, but Acrimony took even that to a new level entirely.