[1] Though some music critics noted an overall change in the band's sound from their usual doom formula towards a slightly more hard rock approach, the album received generally favourable reviews.

[1][4] Echoing the band's fondness for the macabre, Blabbermouth described the cover as "A sick and twisted bad taste eye-assault that aims to titillate, excite and repulse you.

Sex and violence are our basest instincts, I guess we think that engaging the brain and guts on this most basic, primal level is the fastest way to grab people's emotions… It's 'shock' tactics, but the world is so fuckin' brainwashed or bored that they need to be 'woken up'.

Oborn stated "It was all recorded with the same gear tho'... a Tascam 16-track tape machine, Mackie desk, Neve preamp, Watkins Copicat delay, Roland Space Echo, and a couple of other reverbs and compressors.

The longest song on the album, "Mourning of the Magicians", in a more traditional Electric Wizard style has a running time of 11:18 bringing the total length to 43:04.

While still maintaining their trademark doom metal approach, some critics noted a distinct change in the band's sound when compared with previous efforts.

"[14] He further suggested that this album may be the one (as opposed to Dopethrone) you play to demonstrate Electric Wizard's distinctive sound to an uninitiated friend.

"[1] Slant Magazine's Zachary Hoskins also gave the album 3.5 out of 5 and noted the band's particular nod to Black Sabbath's Master of Reality on the album saying "For those headbanging purists, however, whose teeth are set on edge by the word "prog" (or "dynamics"), fear not: Wizard Bloody Wizard remains firmly in Master of Reality territory.

The album does present some subtle tweaks to the doom-metal formula: The churning, throbbing "Necromania" introduces an element of punk sneer to the proceedings, channeling Ron Asheton-era Stooges, while "The Reaper" drips with psychedelic menace.