Release date: 18 September 2026 Record label: Killer Candy Records Riff Doctor’s Score: RRRR 4/5 Diagnosis With Shapes of Midnight, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats bring the guitars firmly back into focus without simply retracing their old steps. Recorded live to analogue tape at Abbey Road Studios, the album sounds raw, sinister and wonderfully out of time. The Cambridge cult favourites once again combine irresistible psychedelic melodies with proto-metal weight, doom-laden riffs

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats have shared ‘House By The Grave’, the opening track from their forthcoming album, Shapes Of Midnight, arriving on 18th September via Killer Candy Records. Partly inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque Of The Red Death, the record promises another descent into the band’s unmistakable world of vintage horror, psychedelic distortion and gloriously sinister riffs. “This is one of my favourite songs that we’ve ever done and the perfect way to open up