Boundaries release uncompromising new album Yearning: the unbeautiful after
Boundaries have released their new album, Yearning: the unbeautiful after, via Sumerian Records. The 14-track record arrives alongside a lyric video for its title track, bringing the Connecticut heavy outfit’s latest wave of abrasive, emotionally charged material into focus.
The album was recorded in autumn 2025 with producer Drew Fulk, whose previous work includes releases by Knocked Loose and Fit For A King. It features guest appearances from The Plot In You’s Landon Tewers on Crowned and crucified, alongside Make Them Suffer’s Sean Harmanis and Alex Reade on Torn open wide.
Vocalist Matthew McDougal said the band wanted the record to lean into extremity rather than compromise its impact.
“With the record, we aimed to be uncompromising and really plant our flag,” 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.”
He added that the band approached the writing process with a desire 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.”
A 14-track record built on tension and release
Yearning: the unbeautiful after follows the band’s 2024 album Death Is Little More. Its tracklist includes previously released cuts Skies cast amber black, May this pain never leave, Death will follow me and Only endless, before closing on the title track.
- Malconscience
- Skies cast amber black
- May this pain never leave
- Torn open wide (featuring Make Them Suffer)
- Bitter ash, bitter love
- Unequal whole
- Death will follow me
- The leper’s bell
- Crowned and crucified (featuring Landon Tewers)
- Wasted angel
- Evidence of extinction
- Nothing, gathered
- Only endless
- Yearning: the unbeautiful after
Stream the album here
Festival appearances and North American tour dates
Having recently completed a European run, Boundaries will next appear at Warped Tour in Long Beach before festival slots at Endless Fires Festival and Louder Than Life. A six-week North American tour with Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry begins in September.
- 26 July 2026 – Warped Tour, Long Beach, California
- Endless Fires Festival – date to be announced
- Louder Than Life – date to be announced
- 26 September 2026 – Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry tour begins
Tickets and further live dates are available via the band’s official website.
