Boundaries wrestle with grief on blistering new single May this pain never leave

Boundaries have unveiled a new single, May this pain never leave, which finds them attempting to hold reverence for their grief after losing several people close to them.

The song - taken from their forthcoming new album, Yearning: the unbeautiful after - was written last year in the wake of the 2025 San Diego plane crash that claimed the lives of six people. These included music agent Dave Shapiro as well as Kendall Fortner and Emma Huke, two other employees from his company Sound Talent Group.

“The premise of the song is laid out very plainly and intentionally,” vocalist Matthew McDougal reveals. “It exists as an extension of the Colin Parkes quote: ‘The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.’”

“With the sudden and violent loss of a number of people close to the band this past year it became impossible to not write about the bereavement and the subsequent emotions. As much as it hurts to miss these people, I hope with all my heart it never stops so that I may miss them with the weight and significance they deserve.”

Listen below:

Yearning: the unbeautiful after arrives via Sumerian on July 17.

Boundaries played Download last weekend and in our review, we wrote: “Boundaries have serious reason to steal the crown for the nastiest set of the weekend, their concussive breakdowns and barked vocals igniting a vortex of dust and flailing limbs in the middle of the Dogtooth tent… this might have been the weekend’s most underrated slice of violence.”

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