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According to Nathan Brackett, author of The new Rolling Stone album guide, Seasons in the Abyss continued the band's sound as displayed in their first four albums.

The songs on the album have complex guitar riffs that proceed at both " blinding speed " tempos and mid-tempo hefts.

Brackett said that the songs ' themes shy away from the " fantasy and into the hells here on Earth " and instead was " music to conquer nations by.