A music video was released for the single in late 2005 and also was featured on MTV's Rock Top 10 as number two.

[9] A music video featuring the live recording of "The Nameless" was created to promote the album.

[10] Blender commented that "Relief from 'Prelude [3.0]' arrives quickly in the basic minor-key riffs and grooves of... 'The Nameless'..."[11] Dan Silver from NME said "'The Nameless' intercuts thrash riffs with softly-strummed interludes".

[12] Robert Cherry of Rolling Stone said it "splices a cooing boy-band chorus onto a g-g-gunky speed metal verse".

[13] Yahoo!s Chris Heath said the song "confusingly stitches both extremes together – the ludicrously vicious and ridiculously placid – into one track that simply feels awkward, wrong even".