Mark of the Blade

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	74/100[6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
Alternative Press	Positive[2]
Exclaim!	6/10[8]
Metal Hammer	[1]
MetalSucks	[9]
Rock Sound	7/10[10]

Mark of the Blade was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic (a review aggregator site which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 from music critics), based on 6 critics, the album has received a score of 74/100, which indicates "Generally favorable reviews".

At AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote in a mostly positive that "In making a record that indulges so many of their songwriting obsessions, Whitechapel's The Mark of the Blade [sic] might have been a mess. It's not. Sequence and flow, moods and styles, all form a coherent whole -- albeit one that might have used a tad more judicious editing. But it's hard to fault a band for trying new things, especially when what they deliver is an album with far more hits than misses." He also praised Mark Lewis' production on the album, and compared the closing track to Tool and Slipknot.[3] In a slightly less positive review for Exclaim!, Denise Falzon described the album as "a bit hit-and-miss. Musically, the new touches work well and flow with the rest of the album, but the clean vocals in particular feel forced and sorely out of place."[8]

Whitechapel

• Phil Bozeman – vocals
• Ben Savage – lead guitar
• Alex Wade – rhythm guitar
• Zach Householder – third guitar
• Gabe Crisp – bass
• Ben Harclerode – drums

Additional musicians

• Ben Eller – guitar solo on "The Void", "Bring Me Home", "Tormented", "Dwell in the Shadows", "Venomous"

Production

• Mark Lewis – engineering, production, mixing
• Whitechapel – production
• Matt Brown – drum tech
• James Thatcher – drum tech
• Jason Suecof – additional engineering (guitars)
• John Douglass – digital editing

Artwork and design

• Colin Marks – artwork
• Sean Cummings – art direction
• Whitechapel – art direction