Old Empire & Wild Card Promotions present: WARNING + Semantron

14+ (under 16s with an adult) As Warning prepare to release their first new music in twenty years, Patrick Walker is self-effacing about what led to this moment. Over the last two decades he has continued to write and release music; his attention was diverted to 40 Watt Sun, satisfied that he had achieved what he had set out to do with Warning. But in those intervening years, interest in Warning has swelled, organically gathering an ardent fanbase. In particular, the 2006 album, Watching from a Distance, has gained a cult following. After a successful string of shows playing the album in 2017, Patrick knew he had a solid live band on hand but did not feel the call to write new Warning material. In response to a transformative period in his life, Patrick turned towards writing new songs, and it soon became apparent that these belonged to Warning. In early January 2025, he started with a completely blank canvas, and piece by piece, day by day he started to fill it with ideas that evolved to become the songs that make up Rituals of Shame. He worked on the material all day, seven days a week, over three months, his immersion in the projectbecoming a full-time pursuit. In the slivers of time in between writing, a deal with Relapse was struck to release the album, which gave Patrick further impetus to complete the task in hand. He booked studio time for June and November 2025; the first period earmarked to demo the tracks, and the second to record.