sempiternal

At church, at the altar, there were vestments of gold and the climbing voices of a Mozart mass, tossing rings sempiternal.

Such disdain is trumped only by the sempiternal public contempt for Congress and car salesmen.

David Bowie's "The Next Day" slipped one place to fourth, toppled by British metallers Bring Me The Horizon, who entered the chart with "Sempiternal", their fourth album.

In the seven years since the release of their debut album, they've shifted styles from metalcore – a genre that matches the speed of hardcore with the pummelling aggression of metal – to the sound of their fourth album Sempiternal, on which the tempos are slower and the vocals carry melodies – though it's all relative – and washes of electronic bathe the guitar riffs.

Elsewhere, the dubstep swagger and overwrought synths of Can You Feel My Heart, and the clumsy poetry of Hospital for Souls reveal an admirable desire to experiment, but for all its aggression and pop-culture pilfering, Sempiternal frequently feels like the work of a band satisfied to slide down the surface of heavy music rather than engage with its true heart.