Miss May I's Levi Benton On No Place For Me, Plus Autumn Kings' Jake Diab On Epiphanies
Heavy Metal News & Interviews: The Loaded Radio PodcastShow Notes
Miss May I frontman Levi Benton joins Scott Penfold on the Loaded Radio Podcast to talk about the band's eighth album No Place For Me, out October 2 via Solid State Records — a record he's described as everything he's felt for a long time but never had the words for. We get into where it came from, the decision to release five singles from a ten-track album, the entirely DIY video for "Death Threat," and nineteen years fronting a band from Troy, Ohio that outlasted most of the scene it came from. Plus the Perpetual Iron tour with Born of Osiris. Also on the episode: Jake Diab of Autumn Kings on Epiphanies, out September 18 via Hopeless Records — their first label album after nine years fully independent. Jake talks about what Hopeless changed and what he refused to let them change, building a record around three songs that had already charted, getting Howard Jones on "yOunG BLoOds," meeting his bandmate at a grocery store in LaSalle, playing for US troops across Japan, South Korea and Guam, and what release day looks like when it lands mid-tour with Black Veil Brides. Read the full write-up at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or grab the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play. Follow us on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and YouTube.
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