Warning Unveils Audio Video For New Song "Night Comes Down"

Warning, who recently announced their first new album in 20 years, "Rituals Of Shame," due 19th June via Relapse Records, release a second track from the eagerly-awaited album with today’s unveiling of "Night Comes Down."

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 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."