Warning

Warning is a British doom metal band formed in Harlow in 2005, playing a set at Bristol Strange Brew, a concert and performance venue. The evening features a group whose music belongs to the Epic Doom subgenre.

Warning draws on the doom metal tradition and its Epic Doom subgenre, and was formed in Harlow in 2005. Patrick Walker has written and released music throughout the two decades since, and in the meantime devoted much of his attention to the project 40 Watt Sun. Interest in Warning has grown steadily, and the band's 2006 album, Watching from a Distance, has built a cult following. A run of shows in 2017 focused on that record, after which Walker had a capable live band at hand.

The band's new album, Rituals of Shame, is its first new music in two decades. Walker began writing in January 2025 and recorded the songs at The Arch Studio, a former church in Southport that is 140 years old. Chris Fullard handled the recording and mixing; he has also worked with Idles, Sunn O))) and Ulver, and had previously collaborated with Walker on two 40 Watt Sun records.

The album returns to the themes that run through Walker's work, among them guilt, shame, failure, obsession, longing and separation, with love, he says, the most important of them. The concert takes place at Bristol Strange Brew, a concert and performance venue at 10-12 Fairfax St.