Miss May I Turn Up The Metal With No Place For Me
Miss May I have released their eighth studio album, No Place For Me, through Solid State Records. The 10-song record arrived October 2 and marks several major changes for the Ohio metalcore veterans. It is the band’s first full-length since 2022’s Curse of Existence, its debut album for Solid State and the first to feature guitarist Elisha Mullins.
The complete album is available now, with Apple Music confirming a 10-song, 33-minute release.
Miss May I Turn Up the Metal
Mullins joined Miss May I after the 2024 departures of longtime guitarists BJ Stead and Justin Aufdemkampe. His arrival reshaped the band around a four-member lineup featuring vocalist Levi Benton, bassist and clean vocalist Ryan Neff, drummer Jerod Boyd and Mullins.
The result leans harder into the “metal” side of metalcore. Tracks such as “Sanctuary” and “Portrait of Pain” combine neo-thrash riffing, pinch harmonics and the familiar vocal contrast between Benton’s screams and Neff’s melodic hooks.
“Death Threat” and “Die on the Vine” push toward melodic death metal, while “Hand Me a Halo” introduces industrial and nu-metal elements without abandoning the band’s signature chorus-driven attack.
Two Years of Darkness and Self-Discovery
Miss May I spent nearly two years creating No Place For Me—an unusually long process for a band accustomed to completing records during concentrated studio sessions.
The members were living in different parts of the country and balancing music with family commitments. Much of the record’s lyrical material also emerged from an emotionally difficult period.
That darkness runs through songs addressing anxiety, isolation, identity and the struggle to find a place where you belong. Rather than covering those emotions with a positive slogan, the album allows the uncertainty and frustration to remain visible.
Ryan Neff said the group wanted to become more vulnerable and use the record to discover who its members are now.
No Place For Me Track Listing
“Sanctuary”
“Portrait of Pain”
“Hand Me a Halo”
“Pray for Silence”
“Death Threat”
“Die on the Vine”
“Fire Falls”
“Bury Me Down”
“Ashes of the Altar”
“Highbrow Thieves”
The record closes with “Highbrow Thieves,” a song aimed at corporate culture and the way repetitive working life can wear away a person’s individuality. The band has also released official videos for “Sanctuary,” “Hand Me a Halo,” “Die on the Vine” and “Highbrow Thieves.”
A New Chapter Without Abandoning the Past
Miss May I have been part of American metalcore since the late 2000s, emerging alongside the generation that brought breakdowns, melodic guitar leads and massive clean choruses into the mainstream. No Place For Me does not attempt to recreate that era. Instead, it takes the band’s established strengths and rebuilds them around a smaller lineup, renewed guitar focus and more exposed songwriting. It is aggressive enough for longtime Miss May I fans, melodic enough for modern Active Rock listeners and honest enough to feel like more than another routine album cycle. The band will support the record with its Perpetual Iron Tour, a North American co-headlining run with Born of Osiris scheduled for November and December.
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