Set the World On Fire - Black Veil Brides
User Score
5.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 6 out of 14

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  1. Screenager
    May 8, 2013
    2
    What's the point of this Evidently the group decided to drop the stereotypical "emo" image in favour of a more commercial one. There are songs on the record which were obviously conceived with radio airplay in mind and Andy Biersack sounds even worse (its like they broke the autotuner). Guitars are dull 80's glam metal rip-off riffs with boring overused solos on the formulaic songs. Drums and bass are also boring if anyone pays attention to them. Two things I have to say in conclusion; 1. It makes Music From The Great Elder sound like a masterpiece, and 2. I wish the image on the cover was a real image.… Expand
  2. CravenKnight
    Dec 22, 2012
    0
    Sounds worse than farting into a can. I can say this, because after I listened to one of their songs I made a wager with a friend that I could fart a better melody into a can than this band can write. The can gave my fart a rather nice natural reverb and delay effect, which boosted the low end of the sound, it also provided my fart with natural compression and made it very pleasurable to the ears.

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Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Q Magazine
    Aug 8, 2011
    60
    Second album is polished, though its anthemic pop-metalcore suffers from thinking its better than it is. [Aug. 2011, p. 119]
  2. Kerrang!
    Jun 29, 2011
    80
    When Black Veil Brides have made an album as fist pumpingly anthemic and as downright fun as Set The World On fire is, you'd be incredibly foolish to bet against them doing just that. [18 Jun 2011, p.50]
  3. All Music Guide
    Jun 14, 2011
    50
    Guitarists Jake Pitts and Jinxx are the showstealers here, riffing in constant harmony, and incorporating the speedy guitar pyrotechnics of similar-minded bands like Dragonforce and Escape the Fate while throwing in showy Zack Wilde pinch harmonics, and Yngwie Malmsteen sweeps.
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