Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (77/100) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Alt Press | |
| IGN | |
| Metal Hammer | |
| Now | |
| PopMatters | |
| Sputnikmusic | |
| Thrash Hits | |
| The Daily Collegian | (B) |
The song "Heroes of Our Time" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, losing to Metallica's "My Apocalypse". On 28 August 2008, the album charted at #9 in Japan it also entered the Australian charts in the first week of September at #19 and in the same week at #18 in both the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200.
Initial critical response to Ultra Beatdown was generally positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 77, based on 8 reviews. Both Allmusic and Alternative Press gave it four and a half stars out of a possible five. Allmusic gave it an "AMG Album Pick" and, in the opening sentence of the review, likened the band to a juggernaut.
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