[2] Even though it is a pounding, aggressive, mechanical industrial dance song that John Bush of AllMusic described as "heart-stopping" and as the pinnacle of its album,[3] it still functions as a break from the surrounding chaos and sorrow of Last Rights.

[4] Jon Selzer of Melody Maker wrote that the song has the "utopian laments" that made defined Skinny Puppy's best work.

[5] Originally bearing the demo title "Catbowl",[6] "Inquisition" takes a break from the addiction-focused lyrics of the rest of Last Rights and returns to the topic of torture and animal cruelty that the band explored on its 1988 album, VIVIsectVI.

Notably, the passages of high-speed bass drums are completely absent in this version, with the song instead winding down through gradually stripping away electronic layers.

[9] After viewing the performance in which the dance group employed "Lahuman8", Lewis Segal of the Los Angeles Times described the show's musical compositions as "assaultive".