Up until 2017’s magnificent Shadows Inside album, Ohio metalcore chaps Miss May I were spitting out a record at least every year or two. Well, it’s now been five long years since their time, and following a spate of singles culminating in the Free Fall EP, the release of Curse of Existence couldn’t come around quick enough. An album steeped in frustration, Curse of Existence generally leans towards the harsher end of the metalcore scale, but like previous offerings, the band injects some well-placed melodies into the fury. Opener “A Smile That Doesn’t Exist” kicks things off, demonstrating this perfectly as, amongst the savage riffs and Levi Benton’s sandpaper screams, come some seamlessly integrated clean passages. It’s during the opener as well where we get to hear Benton’s emotionally-c...