Sempiternal marks their most striking—and fearless—evolution to date.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ready to break noisily out of the underground, the quintet have made one of the year’s most accomplished metal albums.
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.
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.
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
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
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
1 | Can You Feel My Heart 3:47 | 89 |
2 | The House of Wolves 3:25 | 87 |
3 | Empire (Let Them Sing) 3:45 | 84 |
4 | Sleepwalking 3:50 | 91 |
5 | Go To Hell, For Heaven's Sake 4:02 | 83 |
6 | Shadow Moses 4:03 | 92 |
7 | And the Snakes Start To Sing 5:01 | 82 |
8 | Seen It All Before 4:07 | 77 |
9 | Antivist 3:13 | 77 |
10 | Crooked Young 3:34 | 76 |
11 | Hospital For Souls 6:44 | 89 |
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