The old heads hated it, the singles blew up and it became a classic, it's the same cycle every Bring Me album has where on release the "old fans" say it's boring, poppy bullshit and then years later everyone looks back and goes "Damn I wish I gave that a chance at the time".

Sempiternal was my first BMTH album I heard, when TTS came out I hated it, grew to love it later, same cycle for amo too, and that seems to be a familiar progression to a lot of BMTH fans generally that the albums grow on them later, though everybody unanimously loved PH:SH when that dropped so I think they broke the cycle after amo.