Warning release new single »Night Comes Down« from forthcoming album »Rituals Of Shame«; out June 19th via Relapse Records!
UK doom metal veterans Warning premiere the second single »Night Comes Down« taken from their upcoming full-length album, »Rituals Of Shame«, set to release on June 19th, 2026 via Relapse Records.
Tracklist:
01. Rituals Of Shame
02. Stations
03. Night Comes Down
04. Landing Lights
05. Teacher
Courtesy of Speakeasy PR:
May 12, 2026 – 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«.
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.
Photo credit: Gobinder Jhitta
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). »Rituals Of Shame« album cover created by Tekla Vály.
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 on various vinyl variants and other physical formats, as well as digital pre-saves. Get your copy HERE.
Warning tour dates:
Jul 10-12 Pleszew, PL Red Smoke Festival
Jul 29-Aug 1 Bergen, NO Beyond The Gates
Aug 13-15 Francavilla Al Mare, IT Frantic Festival
Aug 13-16 Carhaix-plouger, FR Motocultor Festival
Sep 4 Helsinki, FI KULT
Sep 12-13 Leon, MX Candelabrum Metal Festival
Nov 7 Nuremberg, DE Sonus Obscura Festival
Nov 13 Athens, GR An Club
Warning hail from Essex, UK, 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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