"[3] The pacing of the album also gave Exhumed additional opportunities to explore its sound in the studio, according to Harvey: "The songs being a little slower also allowed a little more breathing room for stuff to happen.

We also worked out a lot of harmonies and stuff in the recording studio, simply because we hadn't played the songs with two guitars yet in the rehearsal room, so that was fun and ended up bringing some unexpected challenges and pleasant surprises.

[3]Neil Pretorius of About.com said the "slower, groovier and much more melodically inclined" approach of Necrocacy provided for a more mature and accessible sound that puts it on par with Carcass's Surgical Steel as one of the best death/goregrind releases of the year.

[5] Praising the album's mixture of "profane ferocity" and "clinical, Heartwork-esque production", David Perri of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles said, "Exhumed has crafted and executed what will surely be amongst the top 1 percent of 2013".

[6] Neil Arnold of Metal Forces expressed the opinion that with Necrocacy, "the Californian psychopaths have simply cemented their place alongside Carcass as leaders in a field swamped in clogged up gore".