Boundaries have shared a final pre-release song from the band’s forthcoming album, Death Is Little More (March 29, 3DOT Recordings), with the arrival of “Scars On A Soul” (http://lnk.to/scarsonasoul).
Vocalist Matthew McDougal shares the theme behind the three-minute bruiser: “’Scars On A Soul’ is a song about the responsibility of the individual to break the cycle of ‘good enough’ and push through what they fear the most. Live in that fear and take away its power to define you. You owe it to yourself to be the best you can be, and more importantly, you owe it to everyone around you. Don’t allow strangers to impose a ceiling on you.”
In the lead-up to next week’s release of Death Is Little More, the Hartford, Conn.-based band have released two songs and their accompanying videos: “Easily Erased,” picked as one of Consequence’s Heavy Songs of the Week, and “A Pale Light Lingers,” which features a guest spot from Alpha Wolf’s Lochie Keogh. MetalSucks said Boundaries’ new music is “wowing critics all over the place with their sound and fury,” while Knotfest noted the band’s “intense prowess.”
Produced, mixed and mastered by longtime collaborator Randy LeBoeuf (Gideon, The Acacia Strain, Kublai Khan TX), the album also includes additional guest appearances from Honeycutt (Kublai Khan TX), and Marcus Vik (Invent Animate).
Death Is Little More pre-orders (http://lnk.to/
Boundaries head out on their first U.S. headlining tour this Spring, with a month of dates launching on May 8, and including openers Orthodox, Kaonashi and No Cure. Ticket links are available via Boundariesct.com.
Death Is Little More tour dates:
May 8 Cambridge, MA The Middle East
May 9 Pittsburgh, PA Preserving Underground
May 10 Cleveland, OH Mahall’s
May 11 Detroit, MI The Sanctuary
May 12 Chicago, IL Subterranean
May 14 Denver, CO HQ Denver
May 15 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
May 16 Las Vegas, NV Eagle Aerie Hall
May 17 Anaheim, CA Chain Reaction
May 18 Berkeley, CA Cornerstone Berkeley
May 19 Sacramento, CA Goldfield Trading Post Sacramento
May 21 San Diego, CA Voodoo Room at House of Blues
May 22 Mesa, AZ The Nile Theater
May 24 San Antonio, TX Vibes Underground
May 25 Ft. Worth, TX Haltom Theatre
May 26 Oklahoma City, OK 89th Street
May 28 Little Rock, AR Vino’s
May 29 Birmingham, AL Saturn
May 30 Orlando, FL Will’s Pub
May 31 Tampa, FL Crowbar
June 1 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
June 4 Baltimore, MD Metro Baltimore
June 5 Amityville, NY Amityville Music Hall
June 7 Philadelphia, PA The Foundry @ The Fillmore Philadelphia
June 8 Hartford, CT The Webster SOLD OUT
Death Is Little More track list:
1. Turning Hate Into Rage
2. Darkness Shared
3. Like Petals From A Stem
5. Cursed To Remember
6. Death Is Little More
7. A Pale Light Lingers (feat. Lochie Keogh)
8. Face The Blade
10. Blame’s Burden (feat. Marcus Vik)
11. Blood Soaked Salvation (feat. Matt Honeycutt)
12. Inhale The Grief
Boundaries is Cory Emond (guitar), Cody DelVecchio (guitar), Tim Sullivan (drums/vocals), Nathan Calcagno (bass/vocals) and Matthew McDougal (vocals). The Hartford-based band have released a pair of EPs: Hartford County Misery (2017) and My Body In Bloom (2019), as well as two full-length albums: Burying Brightness (2022) and Your Receding Warmth (2020). Revolver described the band’s music as “a fascinating meld of crushing sounds,” New Noise said they are “a new standard-bearer,” going on to say that it’s rare for a band to have songs that “have a vibrancy and violence that is wonderfully contrasted with such gothic melody,” and Boolin Tunes said they are “a beacon for hardcore bands to look towards.”
