{"product_id":"rituals_of_shame","title":"Rituals Of Shame","description":"\u003cp\u003eRituals Of Shame is the long‑awaited comeback album from British doom band Warning, arriving in June 2026—twenty years after their cult classic Watching From A Distance—and immediately feeling less like a reunion stunt than a direct continuation of that earlier emotional thread. Written almost entirely from a blank slate beginning in early 2025, the record comprises five long songs—Rituals Of Shame, Stations, Night Comes Down, Landing Lights, and Teacher—stretching to about 45 minutes and recorded at The Arch Studio, a 140‑year‑old former church in Southport, UK, with Chris Fullard handling recording and mixing. Musically, the album remains faithful to Warning’s sparse, melodic doom: slow‑burning tempos, mournful guitar leads, and thick yet airy arrangements that owe as much to Marillion’s episodic structures and June Tabor’s economical folk textures as to the crushing weight of traditional doom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title track opens on an uneasy lurch—six‑four against four‑four—and unfurls over thirteen minutes into what many reviewers call a devastating thesis statement for Patrick Walker’s entire body of work, diving into trauma, emotional detachment, and the agonizing distance between a suffering individual and the person trying to love them through it. Stations and Night Comes Down follow with equally extended, carefully placed drum fills, guitar passages that hold emotional weight on their own, and vocals that are more powerful and precise than ever—Walker’s distressed, overtly emotional singing sits high in the mix, hitting as hard as it did two decades ago. Landing Lights offers the album’s most deliberate tenderness, circling the constancy of music and love without fully resolving, while Teacher closes the record as perhaps its most devastating track, converging themes of shame, longing, devotion, inadequacy, and dependency into a final sequence where Walker cries “I wanted to learn \/ I wanted so much \/ I wanted to try” over desolate riffs before everything cuts to silence. Across Rituals Of Shame, Warning subject the listener to an overwhelming wave of emotion, using doom’s inherent heaviness to carry recurring fixations—guilt, personal failure, longing, separation, and, above all, love—in a way that feels timeless rather than nostalgic, prompting many critics to hail the album as a shattering, stand‑alone masterpiece even if it never tries to “top” Watching From A Distance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"CD \/ Album","offer_id":53698959606074,"sku":"39022","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - Oxblood Vinyl","offer_id":53698959638842,"sku":"39023","price":30.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-07-07_at_5.15.56_PM.jpeg?v=1783459106","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/rituals_of_shame","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}