Tuck commented about the upcoming album: "So it's not ideal, and we did have a lot of plans for the rest of the year for writing and making the record, which are on the backburner now until further notice.

"[4][5] On 11 June 2021, Bullet for My Valentine unveiled a new Patreon page, The Army of Noise, posting that it is "the only place to get the latest BFMV news, early tix, BTS, merch discounts and exclusive items, signed gifts and more.

[12][13] On 20 September, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and manufacturing delays, the band announced that they pushed back the release of the album to 5 November.

Somebody needs to buy Matthew Tuck a thesaurus to improve his clichéd lyric writing, but at no point will you find yourself laughing at anything, you just won't remember any of it.

Their next record could really benefit from trimming down on the length of the songs, and not being afraid to continue down this path of aggression that has been missing with this band for a while.

And granted, while it doesn't surpass the full-throttle glory of 2006 breakthrough The Poison, it's hard to see it delaying what seems like a determined charge back to metal's summits.

"[27] Wall of Sound gave the album the score 8/10 and saying: "With Judas Priest celebrating 50 years, Iron Maiden a tick over 40 and Black Sabbath now long retired, one of the mid-2000s upstarts needed to step up after the lean 90s.

While contemporaries Bring Me the Horizon are exciting and trend setting, they often leave metal to the side, so a Bullet for My Valentine with full artillery is a thing of beauty and necessity.