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". Two years later we made the move to our present address, 35 The Headrow, where we have remained ever since. On 4 March 2013, the band released the second music video from Sempiternal which was " Sleepwalking" on YouTube via the band's Vevo channel and Epitaph Record's channel. Originally released in 2013, ‘Sempiternal’ is one of the most definitive metal albums of a generation.

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.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. Bring Me The Horizon -'Sempiternal' The Sheffield metal band's bid to become a Proper Big Deal in 2013 continues apace". On 9 November, the band played a free gig in their home town of Sheffield before co-headlining the UK Warped Tour Festival in London with Lostprophets.

Before the album I was put in a position where I was asked to believe in God to get better, I was in a shitty place and I was asked to put my faith in God". This was the Flower of Life, a geometric design consisting of overlapping circles, and is the main feature of its album cover.Sempiternal" is an archaic English word denoting the concept of "everlasting time" that can never actually come to pass.