It has since become the band's most commercially successful album to date, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard 200, selling more than 17,000 copies in its first week.

Along with this news they also posted dates for the "This Means War Tour" with supporting acts The Ghost Inside, Sleeping with Sirens, Chunk!

[11] In an interview with Loudwire, drummer Andrew Wetzel stated that the band went into the writing process without "anybody on the outside to touch anything on this record."

[13] Whiting felt that self-producing the album rather than working with past producers like Joey Sturgis or John Feldmann helped them find their "core sound.

radically purged themselves of all their pop predilections in favor of more savage riffage and chattering electronics, they’d set the bar so high, they’d be touring with the Dillinger Escape Plan and Converge’s Kurt Ballou would wear their shirts onstage.

"changed things up slightly on its latest outing, a pop-metal concept album that places most of its emphasis on metal.

About.com gave the album a 2 out of 5 and stated that This Means War "is stale and predictable" and lacking imagination, and that while heavy metal music should change, "it shouldn’t sound like this.

"[20] Consequence of Sound continued on to say that the only sonic stamp to separate the band from similar metalcore acts are its electronic flourishes.

[20] Speaking about the album in retrospect, Wetzel felt that the process started off "really strong but the cycle fell off really hard with no one around to push.

"[25] This Means War has since become the band's highest-charting album to date, debuting and peaking at number 11 on the Billboard 200 and selling more than 17,000 copies in its first week.