Musical Style
While the album's predecessor, The Great Milenko, was written and recorded in a more rock-oriented style, featuring contributions by guitarists Slash and Steve Jones, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers featured a more hip hop-oriented sound. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote, "Where The Great Milenko was targeted at white-boy, adolescent metalheads The Amazing Jeckel Brothers contains cameos from Snoop Dogg and Ol' Dirty Bastard, plus a cover of a Geto Boys song, which brings to street level."
To produce the album, Insane Clown Posse once again teamed up with renowned Detroit record producer and DJ Mike E. Clark, who utilized standard hip hop techniques such as record scratching and samples ranging from 1970s funk to calliope music. "Another Love Song" was based upon Beck's song "Jack-Ass", which itself derived from a sample of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". Bruce loved the song and wanted to rewrite it in his own style. Since Beck's song sampled the Dylan composition, Insane Clown Posse's sample was cleared with Dylan rather than Beck. Rolling Stone writer Barry Walters wrote that Clark's production incorporates elements of "carnival organ riffs, power chords and shotgun blasts ... banjolike plucking and Van Halen-esque guitar squeals."
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