It is the first album to feature former Worship keyboardist Jordan Fish and the first with guitarist Lee Malia playing both lead and rhythm components. The band posted several images of themselves recording at a Top Secret Studio Location, [13] which was later revealed to be the Angelic Studio in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

At the end of this video it was revealed that the album was scheduled to be released on 29 April 2013.It smashed preconceptions with it’s trailblazing release and was both forward-thinking and innovative. This then led to the band streaming the album online until its release date, which was pushed forward from 29 and 30 April to 1 and 2 April for Worldwide and North American release, respectively. on the US Billboard 200 with 27,522 first week sales, making Sempiternal the band's highest charting album in America until That's the Spirit debuted at No. Band frontman Oli Sykes adds “I feel like this is the album that changed everything for our band, both in commercial success terms and personal terms. 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.

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.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. Due to inventory and accounting purposes, we do not exchange items received for different items than originally purchased. Afterward, they had intentions to issue a remix extended play consisting of electronica remixes of tracks off the album, all done by British electronic producer Draper, aiming for a tentative January 2012 release. This was due to the fact that the ground covered by the album gave room for further experimentation.