Warning release new song ‘Night Comes Down’

WARNING have released a new single!

The UK doom metal pioneers have unveiled Night Comes Down, the latest track taken from their upcoming new album Rituals of Shame, which is set for release on June 19th via Relapse Records.

Speaking about the new single, vocalist Patrick Walker shares, “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 to 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.”

Listen to Night Comes Down here:

Rituals of Shame is set for release on June 19th via Relapse Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.