Boundaries eagerly-awaited new album Yearning: the unbeautiful after is out now via Sumerian Records, stream it here: https://sumerian.lnk.to/ytua.
“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.”
Early reviews have praised the album as “blistering” (Kerrang!), “vicious” (Consequence), and full of “unrelenting aggression and pure antagonism.” (Knotfest).
“Yearning: the unbeautiful after” visualizer
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”).
Having just wrapped up a European tour, Boundaries will perform at Warped Tour in Long Beach, Calif. on July 26, followed by outings at Endless Fires Festival and Louder Than Life. A six-week Fall tour with Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry begins on Sept. 26. Tickets for all dates are available via Boundariesct.com.
Boundaries tour dates:
July 26 Long Beach, CA Warped Tour
August 16 Liverpool, NY Endless Fires Festival
September 19 Louisville, KY Louder Than Life
with Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry:
September 26 Newport, KY Megacorp Pavilion
September 27 Detroit, MI The Majestic – Outdoors
September 29 St. Paul, MN Myth Live
September 30 Chicago, IL The Salt Shed Fairgrounds
October 2 Philadelphia, PA Stateside Live!
October 3 Washington, DC The Anthem
October 6 New York, NY The Rooftop at Pier 17
October 8 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Paramount
October 9 Worcester, MA The Palladium Outdoors
October 11 Toronto, ON The Theatre at Great Canadian
October 14 Asheville, NC Hellbender
October 16 Orlando, FL Orlando Amphitheater
October 17 Ft. Lauderdale, FL FTL War Memorial Auditorium
October 19 Nashville, TN The Pinnacle
October 21 St. Louis, MO The Factory
October 22 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
October 27 Mesa, AZ Mesa Amphitheatre
October 29 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Outdoors
October 30 San Diego, CA Gallagher Square at Petco Park
October 31 Daly City, CA Cow Palace Warehouse
November 2 Salt Lake City, UT The Union Event Center
November 3 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
November 5 Austin, TX Moody Amphitheater
Photo credit: Sarah Holick
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).