Band: Warning
Song: “Night Comes Down”
Album: Rituals of Shame
Release Date: June 19th, 2026
Label: Relapse Records
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Vocalist/guitarist Patrick Walker comments:
“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.”
Rituals of Shame track listing:
- “Rituals of Shame”
- “Stations”
- “Night Comes Down”
- “Landing Lights”
- “Teacher”
