According to A.A. Dowd of "The A.V. Club", "Long Hard Road Out of Hell" resembles the music of Marilyn Manson, particularly songs from "Antichrist Superstar" (1996), far more than the music of the Sneaker Pimps, though its "clicking beat" and background vocals do separate the track from Marilyn Manson's usual shock rock. Dowd also found the song reminiscent of the kind of music played at Ozzfest. Alec Chillingworth of "Metal Hammer" saw the track as similar to the singles from "Antichrist Superstar" only more subdued, in the vein of the band's subsequent album "Mechanical Animals" (1998).