Sempiternal

Sempiternal is the fourth studio album by British metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon. It was released on 1 April 2013 worldwide through RCA, a subsidiary label of Sony Music Entertainment, and 2 April 2013 in the United States and Canada through Epitaph. It is the first album to feature keyboardist Jordan Fish and was believed to be the last album to feature guitarist Jona Weinhofen. However, Weinhofen’s role within the album’s development has been faced with controversy.

Written and recorded throughout 2012, Sempiternal showed the band pool diverse influences from electronic music, ambient music and pop. “Sempiternal” is an archaic English word denoting the concept of “everlasting time” that can never actually come to pass. It stems from the Latin word “sempiternus” (a concatenation of root “semper” and suffix “aeternum”). The album’s cover art is a depiction of the Flower of Life.

The album has thus far spawned four singles (“Shadow Moses; “Sleepwalking”; “Can You Feel My Heart”; and “Go to Hell, for Heaven’s Sake”). The album made its debut at #3 on the UK Album Chart and is their second successive album to top the ARIA Charts in Australia. It also managed to reach #11 on the US Billboard Chart with 27,522 first week sales, making Sempiternal the band’s highest charting album in America.