Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal
Critic Score
Based on 14 reviews
2013 Ratings: #271 / 1115
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2013 Rank: #133
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Kerrang!
Sempiternal sounds like a record that wants the world--that's all of it, not just the bits where longhairs dwell--which is refreshing for a metal record in 2013.
90
Alternative Press

Sempiternal marks their most striking—and fearless—evolution to date.

90
Metal Hammer

Put plainly, Sempiternal isn’t simply the best album of BMTH’s career. It’s one of the best albums of recent times – metal or otherwise. The time to embrace the genre’s modern trailblazers has come.

85
Metal Injection

It may be a redundant statement, but when metalcore is good, it’s just good. Bring Me The Horizon has a pretty good reputation of just bringing it every time they have a new release. And bring it they did on Sempiternal.

80
musicOMH

Whether Sempiternal actually betters There Is A Hell… is a difficult question to answer. It’s certainly slicker, at any rate; infinitely more accessible and offering melodies more readily primed for daytime radio audiences.

80
AllMusic

Though fans of the band's earlier works might see this kind of change as an unwelcome invader, they certainly can't say it's one they didn't see coming. Bring Me the Horizon have been working slowly but surely to refine their sound for years now, and with Sempiternal, it feels like their patience and hard work are finally beginning to pay dividends.

80
NME

Ready to break noisily out of the underground, the quintet have made one of the year’s most accomplished metal albums.

80
Sputnikmusic
For the first time, Bring Me The Horizon feel very comfortable with the idea that they are a popular metalcore band, which makes this increase in melodic songwriting acceptable, but more importantly, very enjoyable.
70
PopMatters

Sempiternal contains the best music this young group of musicians have ever created, and Bring Me the Horizon are now relevant in the grand scheme of things, whether you choose to admit it or not.

70
Exclaim!
By channelling the pop-smarts of Linkin Park through Underoath, Bring Me The Horizon have crafted an album that, while not as post-rock-influenced as hinted at, is definitely post-Bring Me The Horizon, at least as we once knew them.
70
Classic Rock
BMTH sound more genuine, dramatic and emotional than they ever have before.
60
The Guardian

Polished to a devastating sheen by producer Terry Date, Sempiternal screams its ambition from the rooftops, its creators' trademark blend of pounding riffs and modern pop gimmicks rendered in vivid shades.

60
Q Magazine
They've long threatened to make an album that would propel them to metal's major league. This might be it.
40
The Needle Drop
Though Bring Me The Horizon comes off as being more ambitious than your average metalcore act out there today, too many of their songs are still bogged down in average riffing and melodramatic lyrics that are really too vague for the listener to draw any specific emotional connections.
surlace
90

THIS
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SIMP ETERNAL

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MAN
73

Only true Chads can like this album.

Songsearcher1
80

This album's kind of nostalgic to me, and one of my first metal albums I ever heard, and so I may be a bit easier with it. But even with that slight bias, I still really like this album, and for a metal album this decade, it's extremely solid.
Sykes sounds great throughout the album and everything from his screams on "Shadow Moses" to the honest and emotional singing of "And the Snakes Start to Sing", he does prove himself as a diverse vocalist. The guitars are loud, angry ... read more

souleaterwill
90

My SIGNATURE middle-school album, so maybe I overrated this a little bit

But honestly, I still enjoy this album a lot to this day, if anything I may enjoy it even more. Well crafted and arguably their best project.

Fav Track: Sleepwalking (Shadow Moses + Go To Hell For Heaven's Sake are close too)
Least Fav Track: Seen It All Before

alexeyglukhov
89

An 89 is what i give this album.

100

This album is incredible, I've listened to BMTH since I can last remember, my dad has loved them since TIAHBMISITIAHBMISI and always played them around the house, so I grew to absolutely adore them, this album is a perfect blend of Modern Metalcore with Electronic Ambience and the raw emotion presented by Oli is unmatched

Overall 10/10 album

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Added on: June 15, 2013