MISS MAY I Announces New Album 'No Place For Me', Shares 'Sanctuary' Single
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MISS MAY I — Levi Benton (vocals),Jerod Boyd (drums),Ryan Neff (bass) and Elisha Mullins (guitar) — will release a new album, "No Place For Me", on October 2 via Solid State Records. Today, the band also shares the video for the new single "Sanctuary". Watch it here.
"'Sanctuary' is a song about wanting to feel safe and realizing you're the one making that impossible," says Benton. "It's a cycle I've struggled with my whole life and I think a lot of people know exactly what that feels like."
Regarding the album, the singer reveals it was a truly cathartic process to write and record it, saying, "'No Place For Me' is everything I've felt for a long time but never had the words for. Writing it taught me who I actually am even when that hurt to look at. It's a full journey: Where it started, what I discovered, and where I am today."
"No Place For Me" track listing:
01. Sanctuary
02. Portrait Of Pain
03. Hand Me A Halo
04. Pray For Silence
05. Death Threat
06. Die On The Vine
07. Fire Falls
08. Bury Me Down
09. Ashes Of The Altar
10. Highbrow Thieves
In a December 2025 interview with the Vulgar Display Of Podcast, Benton stated about MISS MAY I's upcoming follow-up to 2022's "Curse Of Existence" album: "Well, the funny thing is we have taken two years doing this album, just 'cause our schedules are crazy. And since it's a new lineup, we're making sure it's perfect. So it's taking a long time. I have five more songs of vocals to do. That's why I'm going in a couple weeks to finish it. So the album's not done yet, so until it's done, we don't really have a date, but because we have a lot of singles and a lot of stuff… We have the art and everything ready, so I think we're gonna start rolling it out sort of with no end date."
He continued: "It's gonna be a little experiment for us. But it's been fun because I think our fans will like it. Yeah, we're just not gonna approach it normally of, like, 'Hey, here's the pre-order. Here's two music videos from the album.' Since we've worked so hard on it, we're gonna really try to make each song special and just really work on it. And [the recently released new single] 'Pray For Silence' is as light as the album gets. So I try to tell everybody, like, that's the ballad of the album."
In 2024, MISS MAY I joined the Solid State Records roster and released "Apologies Are For The Weak (Re-Recorded 15th Anniversary Edition)", the awesomely ambitious 15th-anniversary edition of the band's classic, beloved debut album "Apologies Are For The Weak". The LP was entirely re-recorded and featured cameos on every single song, including from Jake Luhrs of AUGUST BURNS RED, Brandan Schieppati of BLEEDING THROUGH and Scott Lewis of CARNIFEX.
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
