Boundaries release new album ‘Yearning: the unbeautiful after’

Boundaries‘ eagerly-awaited new album ‘Yearning: the unbeautiful after’ is out now via Sumerian Records. Stream it here.

“With the record, we aimed to be uncompromising and really plant our flag,” Matthew McDougal explains. “As more time passes, heavy music continues to lose its teeth. This genre is supposed to be threatening; it should have an edge and make you feel something. We tried to create an album with urgency.”

McDougal, in a recent interview with Revolver, expanded on that, saying the band’s mindset going into writing and recording the 14-track album was to “Spend less time in the middle and more time trying to bring out those extremes, to show our full breadth of what we think we’re capable of.”

Boundaries – ‘Yearning: the unbeautiful after’

‘Yearning: the unbeautiful after’ was recorded in the Fall of 2025 with producer Drew Fulk (Knocked Loose, Fit For A King) and features guest appearances from The Plot In You’s Landon Tewers (‘Crowned and crucified‘) and Make Them Suffer’s Sean Harmanis and Alex Reade (‘Torn wide open’).

The album is available now via https://sumerian.lnk.to/ytua.

Having just wrapped up a European tour, Boundaries will perform at Warped Tour in Long Beach, California on 26th July, followed by outings at Endless Fires Festival and Louder Than Life. A six-week Fall tour with Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry begins on 26th September. Find all dates, tickets and more information here.

Boundaries – ‘Yearning: the unbeautiful after’
Album Artwork

TRACKLISTING

1. Malconscience
2. Skies cast amber black
3. May this pain never leave
4. Torn open wide (ft. Make Them Suffer)
5. Bitter ash, bitter love
6. Unequal whole
7. Death will follow me
8. The leper’s bell
9. Crowned and crucified (ft. Landon Tewers)
10. Wasted angel
11. Evidence of extinction
12. Nothing, gathered
13. Only endless
14. Yearning: the unbeautiful after

About Boundaries:
Boundaries is Matthew McDougal [vocals], Cory Emond [guitar], Tim Sullivan [drums, vocals], Nathan Calcagno [bass, vocals], and Cody Delvecchio [guitar]. The Hartford-based band has become one of heavy music’s most talked about modern acts through a combination of crushing intensity, uncompromising vision, emotional weight, and relentless touring. The band also released a 55-minute documentary chronicling life on the road behind “Death Is Little More”.

Their discography includes ‘Yearning: the unbeautiful after’ (2026), ‘Death Is Little More’ (2024), ‘Burying Brightness’ (2022), ‘Your Receding Warmth’ (2020), and ‘Hartford County Misery’ (2017).

BAND MEMBERS

• Matthew McDougal – vocals
• Cory Emond – guitars
• Cody Delvecchio – guitars
• Nathan Calcagno – bass, vocals
• Tim Sullivan – drums, vocals

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