★★★★★
"It's difficult to escape the nagging feeling that 'Rise Of The Lion' is the sound of a great band spreading themselves far too thinly."
Miss May I aren't just a metalcore band these days. They're now a thrash band and a straight-up metal band too, often all at the same time...
- www.rocksound.tv
2014-06-13
★★★★★
At Heart was the album that changed everything for Miss May I - it allowed them to headline smaller tours such as the 2012 AP Tour and support larger radio rock acts such as Five Finger Death Punch. Most of all, they gained a significant amount of new listeners and forced people to pay attention, myself included. Granted, the band had success with past songs such as "Relentless Chaos" and "Gears", but At Heart was the first record in the band's discography that was solid from front to back...
- absolutepunk.net
2014-04-28
★★★★★
Miss May I is a band that can be easily lost within the current realm of modern metalcore acts. Their previous releases didn't quite hit the mark that would set them apart from the others, but this time around, they nailed that mark square in the head. For people who have been trying to get into Miss May I for a while, "At Heart" is the point of no return. The band mastered an important concept while writing the album: variety - an aspect of music that some artists simply cannot grasp...
- www.alterthepress.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
"Miss May I has been smart to tour with the likes of Whitechapel and The Ghost Inside, as those band's fan bases will get the most out of a flat record like 'At Heart.'" If you wanted to explain to a friend what today's metalcore sounds like, throw them a copy of Miss May I's new album "At Heart." It's the kind of music that hits its peak a decade ago, yet bands still continue to churn it out and people keep buying the records...
- www.metalunderground.com
2012-07-02
★★★★★
Sound: "At Heart" certainly doesn't disappoint, but it also doesn't necessarily gather up any groundbreaking material. What most people probably expected from this new album of theirs is that they filled in the blanks from where "Monument" was left off of. What I'm trying to say is that "Monument" displayed some key major qualities of what great sounding metalcore is like, and I was really expecting "At Heart" to sort of continue off from there, but add a new sort of twist to it...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-06-25
★★★★★
Metalcore certainly has become a dirty word within the scene, hasn't it? It's a subgenre so oversaturated with mediocre, unproven-yet-entitled bullshitters that it's a little surprising when a young band stick to their guns and release a pretty good record under the guise of it being metalcore...
- www.punknews.org
2012-06-14
★★★★★
Sound: As a follow up to Apologies are for the Weak, their new CD has made all improvements possible. The opening track, "Our Kings" kicks off with fast, heavy riffs that distinguishes the bands unique sound. BJ Stead and Justin Aufdemkampe(the two guitarists) have continues the same melodic style that gives an overall deep impression with very out of the ordinary play. Their utilization of breakdowns does not by any means follow the "breakdown steryotype...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
The deluxe edition of 'Monument' begins with impressive metalcore juggernaut 'My Hardship' a track that the regular edition of Miss May I's latest album leaves out. I have to say that the Killswitch Engage-esque journey the opener takes you through is enough to justify buying the longer version of this record, the vocals are powerful in both raw power and melody, due in no small part to the programming skills of lead singer Levi Benton I dare say...
- www.alterthepress.com
2011-07-11
★★★★★
Miss May I's debut album Apologies Are For the Weak threw all the books out the window in regards to conventional metal genres. Embracing a sound that landed somewhere on the scale between metalcore and deathcore, Apologies made a name for this talented quintet. To follow such a success with another full-length is quite a task. What Miss May I presents their audience, then, is the new album Monument . The sound of this second album, firstly, is nothing like Apologies...
- www.reviewrinserepeat.com
2010-12-14