Originally, Clipping intended to release Visions of Bodies Being Burned several months after There Existed an Addiction to Blood, however, the COVID-19 pandemic forced their record label to postpone the album until 2020 Halloween season.

[5] "Chapter 319" became a meme on TikTok, consisting of teenagers rapping along to a line from the song calling US president Donald Trump a white supremacist and filming their parents' reactions.

According to the band, the album "contains sixteen more scary stories disguised as rap songs, incorporating as much influence from Ernest Dickerson, Clive Barker, and Shirley Jackson as it does from Three 6 Mafia, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and Brotha Lynch Hung".

The song was already "old to them", according to the band, by the time they were sequencing their previous album, There Existed an Addiction to Blood, and was meant to be its second single, however, obtaining permission for the sample proved difficult.

The unusual time signature, which, according to Hutson, sounded as if the beat was "tripping over itself", coupled with the EVP recordings by Esposito, inspired the band to write a "chase sequence" piece involving ghosts.

[7] Power electronics-influenced "Make Them Dead" initially featured a different set of lyrics by Diggs, yet the band felt they did not fit the production, which led to them discard them with the intention of writing a new beat for them later.

According to Diggs, whose lyrical style was inspired by the authoritative approach typical of power electronics, "the politics of it are about [...] if there is a thing that is being hunted in that song, it is right-wing Bible-thumping Trump supporters".

[23] Writing for Under the Radar, Caleb Campbell said that "few listening experiences this year are as gripping, visceral, and vivid as Visions of Bodies Being Burned" and called the album "a perfect complement" to its predecessor.