WARNING RELEASE “NIGHT COMES DOWN” FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM, RITUALS OF SHAME (JUNE 19, RELAPSE RECORDS)
PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW: https://orcd.co/warning-ritualsofshame
Warning, who recently announced their first new album in 20 years, Rituals of Shame, due June 19 via Relapse Records, release a second track from the eagerly-awaited album with today’s unveiling of “Night Comes Down” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ott7sFRZ8).
Patrick Walker: “Whenever I’m asked to say something about a song, I immediately find myself faced with a kind of writer’s paralysis. I tend to be rather reticent when it comes my songs’ meanings, and what else can I say about something that I’ve spent such a long time writing in an effort to articulate some thought or feeling as succinctly and as truthfully as I can?
I also tend to recoil at the general perception that precedes my music, but yet looking back over the lyric now, it’s without doubt one of the most irredeemably dark things I’ve written. The first verse and chorus tumbled out in a single stream of consciousness. I decided to keep it exactly as written, and phrased it to fit the music. There are maybe only two or three other instances where I’ve done this.
Interestingly, when we were mixing the album demos last June, we realised that this song contains the only four seconds of hi-hat on the album. It certainly wasn’t a conscious thing, but must be reflective of my particular distaste for what Steve Albini once called ‘a truly satanic instrument.’
The title of this song is not a nod to Judas Priest, as one journalist asked me last week. It hadn’t even occurred to me.”
“Night Comes Down” follows the release of “Stations.” Stereogum described the song as “a hefty, funereal power ballad,” and FLOOD Magazine noted that it continues the “borderline-slowcore musical palette” of Watching from a Distance.
Walker, who also leads 40 Watt Sun, began work on Rituals of Shame in January 2025, writing seven days a week over three months as he turned his full focus back to Warning. The album was recorded at The Arch Studio, a 140-year-old former church in Southport, U.K., with recording and mixing handled by Chris Fullard (Idles, Sunn O))), Ulver).
The decision to make a new Warning album emerged from a transformative period in Walker’s life. Reluctant to explain his lyrics in detail, Walker acknowledges that the work reflects a deeply personal present moment, with the collection echoing the themes that have long defined his writing: longing, separation, and most of all, love.
Rituals of Shame is available now for pre-order (https://orcd.co/warning-ritualsofshame) on various vinyl variants and other physical formats, as well as digital pre-saves.
Rituals of Shame tracklisting:
1. Rituals of Shame
2. Stations
3. Night Comes Down
4. Landing Lights
5. Teacher
Warning tour dates:
July 10 to 12 Pleszew, PL Red Smoke Festival
July 29 to August 1 Bergen, NO Beyond The Gates
August 13 to 15 Francavilla Al Mare, IT Frantic Festival
August 13 to 16 Carhaix-plouger, FR Motocultor Festival
September 4 Helsinki, FI KULT
September 12 to 13 Leon, MX Candelabrum Metal Festival
November 7 Nuremberg, DE Sonus Obscura Festival
November 13 Athens, GR An Club
Warning hail from Essex, U.K., emerging from the British doom scene in 1994. The band released two albums in their initial run, The Strength to Dream (1999) and Watching from a Distance (2006). The band reunited in 2017 for a limited number of live performances including an appearance at Roadburn Festival. Warning is Patrick Walker (vocals/guitar), Wayne Taylor (guitar), Marcus Hatfield (bass), and Andrew Prestidge (drums).
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