Shame is back with a new album: Cutthroat!

Get ready, because Shame are coming back on September 5th, 2025, and how! With their new album 'Cutthroat', the London band delivers an uncompromising record that will blow you away. This is Shame at their bloodcurdling best, fired up and supercharged, exactly where you want to hear them.

The five childhood friends – vocalist Charlie Steen , guitarists Sean Coyle-Smith and Eddie Green , bassist Josh Finerty and drummer Charlie Forbes – are still in their twenties, but their band has grown exponentially. With ambitious sonic ideas and the technical chops to execute them, they have reinvented themselves. With legendary live shows and three critically acclaimed albums under their belt, Shame hit the studio for ‘Cutthroat’ with one goal: to create a new Ground Zero.

"This is about who we are," Steen explains. "Our live shows are not performance art – they are direct, confrontational and raw. That has always been the basis of us. We live in crazy times. But it's not about 'Poor me.' It's about 'Get the fuck out of here.'" A clear message that perfectly captures the essence of 'Cutthroat'.

Crucial to this exhilarating new vision was the collaboration with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton (known for his work with St. Vincent and Angel Olsen, among others). From their first meeting, Congleton’s no-nonsense approach became a guiding force, helping to streamline and amplify the band’s ideas. He captured and amplified Shame’s raw energy flawlessly.

Laced with Shame’s trademark sense of humor, the album tackles the big issues of today and plays with them gleefully. With a merciless gaze, ‘Cutthroat’ throws itself at themes of conflict and corruption, hunger and desire, lust, envy and the ever-present shadow of cowardice. They don’t shy away from confrontation and ask the ugly questions that are so often tactfully dismissed.

Musically, too, the record plays with intuitive new ideas. Guitarist Sean Coyle-Smith, who had been making electronic music for fun on tour, realized that these loops no longer had to be separate from the music he was writing for Shame. "This time, anything went, as long as it sounded good and you did it right," he says. The result is an album that wallows in life's idiosyncrasies and explores musical boundaries.

"I'm not here to answer the questions, I'm a 27-year-old idiot..." Steen remarks with a confident smile. But 'Cutthroat' delivers one answer with resounding conviction: Shame has never sounded so good.

Are you ready for the unfiltered energy of 'Cutthroat'? Order it here on black vinyl or yellow vinyl . Release date September 5th 2025.