Miss May I are back and doing exactly what they do best with a slick, sensational slice of metalcore majesty.
‘Die On The Vine’ is its name, and it’s a track that ebbs and weaves through every branch of heaviness it can. There are machine gun drums and skin-shredding riffs akin to The Black Dahlia Murder, there are triumphant builds and gargantuan hooks that August Burns Red would be proud of, and there are weighty breakdowns that any band plying their trade over the last two decades would kill to be able to write.
Though more than anything, it is Miss May I. Going faster and harder than they ever have before, showing that time has only made them hungrier.
And below the chaos, there is a thoughtful core, as the band explain:
“‘Die on the Vine’ captures a mid-life reckoning — coming to terms with how deeply childhood experiences and unresolved trauma shape who we become. The song reflects the moment where denial stops working and self-awareness sets in. If those patterns are something you have to live with, the choice becomes whether to decay under their weight or grow stronger through them. ‘Die on the Vine’ leans into that tension, framing survival as adaptation: sharpening your thorns over time instead of letting the damage define you.”
The track follows on from last year’s ‘Pray For Silence’, which sounds a lot like this:
