The album was well received by reviewers such as Eve C. It was published by NTT Publishing/Square on Augwith the catalog number N25D-019, and reprinted by NTT Publishing on Augand Octowith the catalog numbers PSCN-5030 and NTCP-5030. The album covers 44 tracks and has a duration of 1:06:01. Kikuta also started the track off with a 'whale noise', rather than a traditional 'ping', in order to try to 'more deeply connect' the player with the game from the moment it started up getting the sound to work with the memory limitations of the Super Nintendo system was a difficult technical challenge. The title track to the game, 'Fear of the Heavens', was designed by Kikuta to sync up with the title screen as it slowly faded in due to hardware limitations at the time trying to match the audio and visual effects in a game was rare. The soundtrack's music covers both 'ominous' and 'light-hearted' tracks, and is noted for its use of bells and 'dark, solemn pianos'.

The soundtrack was composed by Hiroki Kikuta.

Secret of Mana was one of the first soundtrack releases in North America for the North American version of a game. Secret of Mana Original Soundtrack is a soundtrack album of music from Secret of Mana, released as Seiken Densetsu 2 Original Sound Version in Japan the releases are identical aside from the packaging and localized English song titles.

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