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    Emo rock favorites My Chemical Romance have released their rendition of Pulp’s classic Britpop anthem “Common People”, offering fans another preview of the bonus material included with the upcoming 15th anniversary deluxe edition of “Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys”. The cover was originally recorded during a BBC Radio 1… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
  • Bastardane Premiere Music Video For “Mother’s Tongue”

    Stoner/doom metal trio Bastardane have unveiled a new music video for their single “Mother’s Tongue”. The clip was directed by Calum Palmer and arrives several months after the song's initial release. While the video is making its debut now, “Mother’s Tongue” first surfaced online in February and has already become a familiar part of the ban… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
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    Founder of The Animals, party buddy of Hendrix and Morrison and hero to Springsteen, Eric Burdon is a bluesman, a rogue and a survivor, and this is his story
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  • Album Review: Warning – Rituals of Shame

    Album Review: Warning – Rituals of Shame

    Warning are one of those rare bands where upon announcing a new record I will drop everything and give it my fullest due. Formed in 1994 out of Essex, United Kingdom, Warning perform a style of doom that’s deeply entrenched in the human condition, releasing their earliest Demos from 1996 but it’s their debut album, 1999’s The Strength To Dream, that started seeing the band take on their multifaceted and humane approach to Doom metal. Though they disbanded in 2001 the band reunited in 2005, unleashing their second and most acclaimed work to date: 2006’s Watching From A Distance. Myself included, many consider this record to be one of the greatest and most heartbreaking pieces of metal ever recorded, and witnessing it live, in full, at Damnation Festival last year was something incredible. Following a 2009 breakup, Warning returned with a revived energy in 2016 and twenty years after their last album, Rituals Of Shame is slated for a June 19th release date via Relapse Records. We must go into this record fairly and not judge it against Watching From A Distance, regardless how titanic of a release Warning blessed us with then. It’s been two decades since the last album. Let’s get stuck in.

    To no surprise Warning sport another exceedingly clean production on this record, but then had they utilised a muddied approach to how Rituals Of Shame sound their morose atmosphere would hardly strike as precisely. The lighter tone enables the grieving riffs to convey the depths of their sorrow with greater accuracy, greater clarity, and thus there is nought barring the way between us and the music. We’re given access to every chord, every wallowing note in loss and mournful yearning. This in turn means you could listen to this record the first time and receive every iota of being the band intended, thereby putting the record down for some time afterwards. Therefore, any repeat listens become an active choice owing to our personal enjoyment of the record. Then again, Warning perform doom metal with weight; every track is loaded with human anguish and thus isn’t something you should ingest without end; experience the record, put it down, then return some weeks down the line to receive its full measure again.

    Where many doom acts insist on submerging their audience with crushing tone or sonorous vocals, Warning ascribe to the belief that less is more. As a rule they perform some lengthy tracks but there’s never that gnawing feeling you wish it over. That lighter guitar tone ensures you hear every single guitar chord played, but even so the succession of notes isn’t constant. There are places where a note goes unanswered for a short while, perhaps replaced with vocals for the strike of the drum. In short Warning don’t need to assail your senses with dopamine in songwriting to keep you invested. It’s that willingness to leave spaces on the record silent, absent of noise, that underpins the band’s theme of unfulfilled yearning.

    Vocalist Patrick Walker may be approaching fifty yet his pipes have barely aged a day since the band’s last album. Warning are one of the exceptional doom acts where the vocals lead the rest of the songwriting; I for one couldn’t imagine any voice other than Walker on a Warning record, his voice has that lasting shrill that whilst no different perhaps from most people also carries within the act of letting go of strength. It’s the vocal edge that gives Warning their harrowing power, take away strength and the will to go on and Rituals Of Shame is what remains; an ode to the absence of resolve, a soulful death long before the body catches up.

    Though the album is just five tracks, and we’ve covered how each track makes every second count with all the fat removed, Rituals Of Shame still hits like a train placing emphasis on each note brought down on you. The band apply more purpose and weight behind their opening tracks than another band could do with their full record. There will be a moment you’ll check where you are in the track running and realise you’re only halfway through. Typically this would be a grand detriment but regarding Warning’s emotive power it speaks volumes towards the impact they bring. This is no shallow dent, this is a complete and soul-shattering crater, so much so you’re liable to fall into the pit of recalling your own setbacks, your own failed ventures in love or friendship. Thus lies the ever present risk of experiencing Warning, you will feel it as strongly as hear it and considering Warning’s subject matter it can unearth woes you honestly thought long buried.

    In conclusion, Warning’s first full length album in twenty years is a riveting, harrowing experience that has the ability to take you from serene bliss to existential torment. It’s striking though how little this record sounds from their previous works, as if Rituals Of Shame were merely frozen in time after Watching From A Distance and only now have the band released it. In a way it demonstrates Warning’s affinity for gloom-laden loss that they can write multiple albums around this concept and yet still find avenues worth exploring and bring to light. You don’t go into a Warning record to be crushed, you go into a Warning record to feel something and feel something you’ll certainly do by the first track alone. These five tracks carry enormous weight but Rituals Of Shame will always be ready to pick up its burden once again. We all need an emotional cleanse periodically and this ritual is a great outlet for that.

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