Sempiternal

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This record brought our band closer than ever and for that it will always have a special place in my heart. Later that year, in July, it was announced that the band would be releasing their fourth album on RCA Records. It didn't work out as well for us this time because we liked that before as we were always touring, and we needed somewhere quiet to go.

Written and recorded throughout 2012, Sempiternal showed the band pull diverse influences from nu metal, electronic music, ambient music and pop. On 3 November 2012, the band invited fans and the Drop Dead Clothing team to enter Angelic Studios to record the gang vocals for Sempiternal. I was struggling with addiction and my relationship with the band before this record was fractured and I felt the only way I could apologise for my actions was to knuckle down and pour everything into a record.The song's looped vocal pattern was created by Fish as Sykes couldn't think of lyrics that fit in the chorus, but they then became a significant part of the song's structure. This marked the end of the Sempiternal-focused era of Bring Me the Horizon and the break they will use to make a new album. Bring Me The Horizon -'Sempiternal' The Sheffield metal band's bid to become a Proper Big Deal in 2013 continues apace". The lyrics are also cited as possessing anti-religious connotations, [8] with Sykes summarising this by saying "I'm an atheist so it's all about not believing in God.

It stems from the Latin word " sempiternus" (a concatenation of root " semper" and suffix " aeternum"). The album debuted in the United Kingdom at number three on the album chart [70] and number one on the rock chart [71] with over 9,000 copies sold in its first week. Originally released in 2013, ‘Sempiternal’ is one of the most definitive metal albums of a generation. It took us so long to get into the writing process this time because we had that massive tour, and we hadn't written for so long. Describing the album as blending pieces of their previous three albums and then creating "a whole new sound" Sykes summarises the album as having been "massively" influenced by various electronic music genres.

RCA Records have given Bring Me the Horizon lengthy support since their signing, the label introduces their signing of Bring Me the Horizon with the statement "signing you is as important as signing Metallica". Throughout the development of the album he was never announced as an official member of the band but would tour with the band in support of Sempiternal. During the development of the album, Sykes said that he and Jordan Fish were inspired by all the music they heard throughout their daily life and thought about how it applied to their style.

This was the Flower of Life, a geometric design consisting of overlapping circles, and is the main feature of its album cover. The album spawned four singles (" Shadow Moses"; " Sleepwalking"; " Go to Hell, for Heaven's Sake"; and " Can You Feel My Heart").At the end of this video it was revealed that the album was scheduled to be released on 29 April 2013. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream music critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 12 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". Sykes explained that while There Is a Hell examined mannerisms such as dealing with great amounts of depression, Sempiternal examines learning how to deal with that stress. The song was the first song which Fish "really got his teeth into" which is shown in the heavy use of electronica.

In the US, projections of the album selling between 24,000 and 27,000 in its first week were confirmed as it sold over 27,000, achieving a place of number 11 on the US Billboard 200. In 2011, Bring Me the Horizon were finishing up the tour that was held in support of the band's previous album There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It.

Sykes also sees the album as possessing a very euphoric "happy sad" feeling [6] and this is shown where one of the tracks on the album surfaced to sound like the soundtrack to the end of the world.