Album
Shapes Of Midnight
2026 · Rock
5 collectors on Gatefold own this
Shapes Of Midnight is a Rock album by Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, originally released in 2026. On Gatefold: owned by 5 collectors.
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Having stretched out their sound on the imaginary Italian horror-movie soundtrack of 2024’s <i>Nell’ ora blu</i> (a truly fun listen for anyone looking for more manageably scaled darkness in their life), <b>Uncle Acid</b> returns to the pulpy, psychedelic hard rock that made albums like <i>Blood Lust</i> and <i>The Night Creeper</i> classic. Don’t let the terms “horror” or “metal” throw you: Highlights like <b>“Don’t Let It Control You”</b> and <b>“When Evil Wakes”</b> have more in common with the macabre beauty of ’70s radio hits like “Don’t Fear the Reaper” or “School’s Out” than Black Sabbath—music that feels all the more unsettling for how pretty and approachable it is. Retro, maybe, but attuned listeners will hear the way the band taps into heavy metal at its most primitive and essential: Cheap thrills and scary stories to tell in the dark.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1House By The Grave
- A2Shapes Of Midnight
- A3When Evil Wakes
- A4Don't Let It Control You
Side B
- B1Psycho On The Loose
- B2I Won't Sleep ('Til You're Gone)
- B3The Other Side Of The Sky
- B4Sleep No More
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Psych Rock
- dreamy
- hypnotic
- psychedelic
Two years on from the mesmeric Nell’ Ora Blu, their synth-laden soundtrack for an imaginary Giallo movie, orphic Cambridge heavies Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats return with their seventh full-length Shapes Of Midnight. A brilliantly macabre concept album partly inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque Of The Red Death and the too-real nightmares of our modern age, Shapes Of Midnight refines the group’s ‘Evil Beatles’ sound: a thrilling, expertly composed fusion of eerie harmonies, pop hooks, Thin Lizzy-esque twin-guitar brilliance and the kind of fleet-footed heaviness that’s become their trademark.
Shapes Of Midnight was tracked at Abbey Road Studios – live to analogue tape, natch – in a blessed three-day blitz in the company of storied engineer Chris Bolster, whose previous clients include Phil Spector, Ozzy Osbourne and Paul McCartney. The band employed era-appropriate tech, from antique Neumann mics once breathed upon by the Fabs and the Floyd, to consoles and compressors from the peak era of recorded sound. The mastering, meanwhile, was completed by Grammy-nominated engineer Noel Summerville (The White Stripes, The Clash, My Bloody Valentine).
The album marks a return to the guitar-forward attack of their earlier records, but also an evolution. Their blessed invocation of proto-metal heaviness is gilded by blasts of uncanny melancholic pop, bruising NWOBHM gallop, jazzy textures and complexities, and Krautrock-y cro-magnon synth damage. It’s a deliciously dark listen, for sure; as songwriter Kevin Starrs says, “our albums exist in an alternate universe to our own. They're all stories that could happen here, but everything's just a bit ‘off’.”
TOTAL PRESSING NUMBERS:
BLACK // 2000
N.AMERICA PURPLE // 1500
EU BLACK ICE GLITTER // 750
KILLER CANDY RED AND WHITE CORNETTO (includes signed screenprint of the album artwork)// 150
Which includes:
KILLER CANDY RED AND WHITE CORNETTO w/ signed screenprint + hand written lyric sheet of one song from the album// 8 AVAILABLE (ONE PER CUSTOMER)
PURPLE SMOKE //500 (CRASH Records Leeds exclusive)
NEON PINK/NEON VIOLET SPLATTER //500 (LEVITATION Exclusive)
ORANGE //1000. (Exclusive Tour Edition)
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