UK doom/sludge metal outfit Black Shape released »Drinking (The Morning After)« EP with unreleased material from »Drinking« recording sessions

London, UK based doom/sludge metal outfit Black Shape presents their new EP, »Drinking (The Morning After)«, which was just released on February 28th, 2026 via Rat Run Records. It features five tracks of unreleased material from the »Drinking« recording sessions.

Tracklist:
01. Desecration Demon
02. Grim Wraith
03. David Burdis
04. Nightmare
05. When I Go To Hell

Black Shape is a doom/sludge metal band from London, UK. Primary a “doom primitivism” duo featuring David Burdis (vocals, guitar) and Andrew Cleaver (drums). Formed as a side project to the psych-punk group Flowers Of Evil, the band serves as a creative outlet for Burdis’s “overflowing” musical ideas. Cleaver is also a member of the collective Mummise Guns alongside musicians from Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs.

Says the band: “It gives us great pleasure to introduce to you at this time: »Drinking (The Morning After)«.

5 tunes from the »Drinking« sessions that, for reasons nobody can remember, didn’t make it onto the album.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by the master, Wayne Adams. Artwork a slight variation on the original cover by Cian O’Neill. Out now on Rat Run Records.”

Get »Drinking (The Morning After)« EP on cassette through Rat Run Records: ratrunrecords.bandcamp.com

Written by Black Shape.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse Studios, London.
Artwork by Cian O’Neill.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well