Dave Simpson at "The Guardian" stated "The spiky quartet furnish their usual shouty vocals with grinding riffola and twiddly guitar solos, just as the rest of the post-Linkin Park world are realizing nu metal wasn't such a good idea." Sum 41 abandoned the pop punk style with this album, according to Andrew Blackie of PopMatters. Alan di Perna of Guitar World magazine called it "their heaviest album yet", and as going from "flirtwith metal on both [prior albums, but with Chuck they’ve fully embraced it."