[2] Upon its re-release on Epitaph, the album received favorable reviews, generating an aggregated score of 76/100.

[3] Sputnikmusic gave Fake History a 4.5 out of 5 or "superb" rating, calling it "a post-hardcore album fit for many of 2010's best-of lists".

[12] Rock Sound magazine called it "a frenetic, hugely entertaining and inventive genre mash-up".

They considered the album more of a classic than Queens of the Stone Age's Songs for the Deaf and Alkaline Trio's Good Mourning.

Stating that "The essence of hardcore distilled by five LA lifers, ‘Fake History’ is at once a howl of vulnerability and a fuck-you-you-will-never-break-me clarion call of utter defiance.