The Warning are prepared to take on anything. This includes one of the most dreaded scourges of all: New York City traffic.
It’s mid-June, and the Mexican trio have been rushing around Manhattan all day. Earlier in the morning, the Villarreal sisters — guitarist Dany, drummer Pau and bassist Ale — formally announced the impending arrival of their fifth album, Everything’s Falling, and they’re crossing midtown to talk up one of the year’s most anticipated hard-rock releases with Revolver.
Big Apple traffic jams can be intense to begin with, but with World Cup preparations and an NBA Finals game drawing even more people into the streets, everything’s moving at an especially sluggish pace. The Warning get trapped in gridlock for an hour on their way to Radio City Music Hall, where they’re set to open one of the last dates of their North American tour with pop-rock star Yungblud.
The delay is annoying and somewhat stressful, but the Villarreals take it in stride. You could argue that’s kind of what the new record’s opening “Ritual” is about. Clad in fuzz-blasted guitars and the skies-cracking kaboom of Pau’s kick drum, the single finds primary vocalist Dany locked in anxious thoughts, anticipating disasters of all kinds (“Unrealistically distressed/I play it out in my head/Catastrophically obsessed”).
The struggle isn’t specified in-song, but she suggests “Ritual” and other pieces from Everything’s Falling could reflect challenges to relationships, your health or your career. It’s inevitable: some days even the best-laid plans will go sideways. You just have to meet the problem head-on and push forward.
“Basically, the whole album is about facing failure and having to build yourself up after that,” says Pau. “It’s that emotional journey that I think all humans go through, and that internal struggle. Either you’re fighting with yourself, [or] you feel like you’re being pitted against other people. It’s a constant battle to become better.”
On the surface, the Warning are knuckles-up and ready to fight with this latest album. Over the past few years, the sisters have earned their place on some of rock’s biggest stages, opening for icons including Foo Fighters, Guns N’ Roses, Halestorm and Muse. Their 2024 breakthrough, Keep Me Fed, climbed to No. 1 on the U.K. Rock charts and received a Latin Grammy nomination for its “Qué Más Quieres.” With Everything’s Falling, that momentum has sharpened into something even more aggressive: videos where the Warning blast flamethrowers in the air, hoist daggers high for sacrificial rituals and face off against a prying media with katanas and a snarling attack dog by their side.
Dany anticipates a knockout blow in the love-themed “Bloodsport,” and delivers kiss-offs to her enemies on “Kill or Be Killed.” Rip-roaring rock anthem “Kerosene” finds all three sisters uniting for a sneeringly cheerful jab at unnamed antagonists mimicking their every move: “You rip my hair, my style, my jeans/I swear you copy everything.”
Pau admits some of their targets are fictional, but it’s still fun to imagine the battle. As the Warning wrote and recorded in their native Monterrey, Mexico, the challenge became more physical, the album pushing all three sisters’ playing further than ever before.
“This one is really rhythmically difficult for me,” Dany says of Everything’s Falling, where the bombastically metal-edged bridge to “Ego” finds her pummeling through effects-corroded riffage. “What I have to sing and what I have to play on this album has reached a whole new level.”
One thing you can count on is that the members of the Warning will always have each other’s back. For bassist Ale, that meant stepping to the fore with hefty, iron-clad rhythms and bass lines that sing like a guitar lead. “Now that we’re trying to learn everything for our live shows … a lot of those parts Dany isn’t even playing the guitar,” Ale explains. “We were writing riffs and everything [together], but I was like, ‘You know what, Dany, what you’re singing is already hard enough. If I can play that, I’ll do it.’”
The Villarreal sisters first forged their musical bond while playing the Rock Band video game together as children. By 2013, their parents moved them onto real instruments, and the preteens began honing their craft through covers of AC/DC and Metallica, which soon went viral on YouTube. (Metallica would later include the Warning’s cover of “Enter Sandman” on 2021’s The Metallica Blacklist.) Their move to original material led to a series of well-regarded rock albums and tours with their idols.
Five albums in, the Warning’s profile continues to rise. Their 2026 began with the collaborative “Love to Be Loved” single alongside Grammy-winning Mexican Regional artist Carín León and included multiple global tours with Yungblud. As they prepare to stick the landing with Everything’s Falling, the Warning can see that their music is already bringing generations of rock fans together.
“You see these complete families here in these rock concerts,” Pau says. “It’s very lovely — especially when you see dads with their little girls on their shoulders.” It makes her think back to the sisters’ own first concert experience together: watching pop-rock group Maroon 5.
“I remember going to that show and being so excited,” she recalls. “We had an iPod that we shared, and we would listen to all the albums so we would know every single song.”
Pau pauses, then adds, “It’s special that we get to be a part of somebody’s first experience with the music world.”
Did this album come together quickly, or had you been writing through the past couple years?
Dany Villarreal We took some time off the road, and then we [decided we] were just gonna create.
Pau Villarreal With Keep Me Fed, it was very on-and-off — doing writing sessions here and there, and then piecing everything together, hoping it would make sense. Which it did. But for Everything’s Falling, we went into the writing room with a list of topics, visual aids [and] a clear path of what we wanted to say with this album, what we wanted it to sound like, how many happy songs we wanted, how many sad songs that we wanted, and how many angry songs that we wanted. We had everything very strategically laid out, so there was no room for error. It was like, “We want to say this, so we’re gonna say this.” We were able to do it because we stopped touring. We took three months to write the album.
Dany We wrote a lot of it at home, and we recorded it in Monterrey as well, which is always special.
Tell us about the growth that has gone on behind the scenes between Keep Me Fed and now. You mentioned one of Everything’s Falling’s core themes is failure. Did you experience feelings of that between albums?
Dany Well, when we say failure, it could encompass a lot of different things, you know? Maybe it’s emotionally, health-wise, or just [about our] careers.
Pau It doesn’t have to be a big outward failure.
Dany It’s your own rock bottom that you have to overcome.
Pau I’m going to speak for the three of us, because I think we were raised the same way: We have such high standards for what we do and what we ask of ourselves for our jobs. So, sometimes even something stupid, [like] maybe I missed a fill in a song … people wouldn’t blink an eye. They wouldn’t think twice about it. But for me, that can haunt me for the rest of my day.
It could be personal failures. Or it could be very big ones. But we think that failure is the only road to growth. If you’re not failing at something, you’re not putting yourself out there to even try. And trying is a very commendable thing to do. It’s very brave, and you have to be vulnerable and get your pride out of the way to do it. So, [the album is] about that process of growing and becoming better.
In the “Kerosene” video, you’re seen ripping around an open highway in a sports car you just hot-wired. Have you had a chance to do that kind of a road trip together? No music, just the three sisters?
Dany Oh my God, no. [Laughs] Never with one of us at the wheel.
Pau We would have to hire a driver. I wouldn’t trust any of us to drive a car.
Dany Us driving that fast on a highway? Nope!
Pau It could be fun! It’s very rare that we have the time to do anything, just the three of us. But I think that’d be cute. And we have gone on road trips before — touring technically is a big road trip, with a lot of extended traveling.
Dany But with a slower bus.
Pau I think that’s why music videos are so cool. You get to do things that you would probably never do at any point in your life, like [using] flamethrowers, or be in a sports car.
What was it like using those flamethrowers?
Ale Villarreal It was fun! When we recorded with the flamethrower, it was two or three in the morning. It was really late and really cold, so it was actually really nice to have the flamethrowers on. You just had to be careful and follow the protocols and [know] how to turn it off.
What were some of the bigger challenges on this record?
Pau When we were writing the songs, we would use a standard drum loop, and we would write the whole song on top of that same loop. And then when it was time to record, I would have to do what these drum loops were doing. They were very groovy hip-hop beats, a genre that I’m not used to playing. You have to have a certain groove, a certain flow and a certain feel to it. It’s not necessarily the most common thing in rock beats. So, I had to really step out of my comfort zone and get comfortable with doing ghost notes and adding dynamics. Like, I couldn’t just play hard the whole song. I had to have a certain sensibility. “Ego” and “Ritual” are probably the toughest on the album for me, so I’m happy we’re getting used to playing them live.
You bring big screams to “Ego.” And the track has a heavy groove unlike anything else on the record. Where did that song come from?
Pau “Ego” is a special song. I specifically fought for that song because I wanted us to be angry in Spanish. We’ve never been angry in a song in Spanish before, and I thought it was really special to explore that feeling in our language.
What was really interesting is that we were working on this song with our producer, Anton [DeLost], and he doesn’t speak Spanish. So, he would just kind of grab the vibe of the intensity of our vocals. We also lean into Latin American rhythms in the song — just the cadence of the melodies that we’re using, and rhythmically what’s going on as well. It feels very close to the things that we would listen to in Latin American music.
Having to scream was so much fun for me. I just unlocked the ability, magically. It’s not something that I have fully developed, but I do want to keep developing it.
Screaming in Spanish and screaming in English is inherently different. It was really fun to discover what those differences felt like in my throat, or my mouth. It was challenging, but in a fun way. It’s definitely a big let-go moment. It’s very therapeutic to take the time to be angry about something and then let it go.
Dany Being angry in Spanish feels so legit.
Pau It’s straight from the source.
Dany No translation needed.
Dany, in the “Ego” video you’re playing a Gibson Explorer that Lzzy Hale gave you while you were on tour together a few years ago. Can you tell us about that?
Dany That was such a special moment. We actually revisited the venue where that had happened on this tour, and I got so nostalgic. So, the story is that Lzzy [gave me] a guitar in the middle of our set, and I didn’t really grasp that it was a gift for me. I thought I could play one of her guitars for one song, and I was like, “Yes!” But then we got offstage, and she said, “No, that’s for you, girl. I hope you get to rock out with it, and that someday you’ll be able to do the same thing to someone who inspires you as much as you inspire me.” That was so nice. We’re very good friends. We love Lzzy and the whole Halestorm crew. Of course, this is one of our heaviest songs yet. I had to use it for the video. It was an easy decision to make.
There’s anger in “Kerosene,” but it’s also presented in a fun way with how you’re targeting the copycats. Who are the copycats, though?
Dany Mmm… we don’t have any copycats to talk about, specifically.
Pau We don’t have beef with anyone.
Dany We really wanted to make a fun and sassy song. We were thinking of [it as] a coming-of-age movie, like a doing-your-makeup song.
Pau It’s just our storytelling ability coming through. When we were little, we would write stories, because we had very little life experience. I think it’s fun when you create these scenarios — I fake fight with people in my head!
Dany Really? [Laughs]
Pau Yes, I have issues. It’s like doing that, but collectively. You’re creating a scenario that doesn’t exist. Like, what would you say to that person if that [fight] was actually happening?
We had so much fun doing that, because we’re really nice people. I don’t know if that’s weird for us to say, but we’re so chill. We’re calm. I can’t imagine us actually going up to somebody and saying that — but that’s why music is so fun. You get to put yourself in scenarios that you normally wouldn’t be in.
Is there any sibling rivalry secretly inside that song? You’re so close that you share everything together, but sometimes you might want a little something for yourself. Like, “Don’t copy me, this is mine.”
Dany Oh, not at all. Not even a little bit.
Ale I actually never thought of it that way… That’s so funny. Actually fighting in the room, with each other?
Pau There can be petty little sister things in our day-to-day, but I don’t think we’ve ever felt that we’re competing against each other, because we’re such a tight team. It’s always us against the world. So, no.
The roots of this band are wrapped up in video games, through your experiences playing Rock Band together as kids. This year, Keep Me Fed’s “Qué Más Quieres” ended up in WWE 2K26. How does it feel to have one of your songs in a game like that?
Dany We love that we can be part of the video game world, because that’s how we learned so many [of the] songs of our childhood. It’s just so important to us that our music can get to so many places — and places that we didn’t really expect. Like, sports is such a different world from what we do. We’re in the Madden video game as well [with Keep Me Fed’s “S!CK”].
Pau It’s crazy to be connected in that way. More than anything, we love music so much. We loved the music from not only Rock Band, but other video games that were really soundtrack-heavy. That literally became the soundtrack of our lives. We listen back to those songs, and they still hold such a special place in our hearts. And to think that somebody could have that feeling — that moment — with one of our songs? It’s very full circle. It’s very beautiful.
Have you had a chance to sit down and game-out together with either the wrestling game or Madden?
Pau We’re good at certain video games. But sports video games… I would fail at the NFL. I know we bought the game; we just have to actually play it.
Dany We need to have the time…
You post about playing board games on the road, though…
Dany Yes, Catan!
Pau We like playing Catan, and we like playing Trivial Pursuit. We’re big board game people. And we always bring decks of cards to play [on tour].Dany Which is obviously not the first thing people think of with a rock band: “They’re super into board games!”
Is that something that you can loop your tourmates into? Has Yungblud sat in on a game of Catan?
Dany Oh, not at all. No, no, no… but we have hung out together.
Pau If we’re gonna play cards, everyone’s invited.
Dany And we had a Mario Kart tournament just a few days ago. Ale won!
You were covering the Super Bowl for Mundo NFL earlier this year and ended up getting your own football with the Warning’s name stitched into it. Is that on the road with you? Do you toss the ball around?
Ale I can’t toss an American football.
Dany It doesn’t even fit my hand.
Pau The sportiest thing we participate in is badminton…
Dany Everything else is a health hazard for our hands. [Laughs]
We’ve touched on some of the angrier songs on Everything’s Falling — so, what’s the happiest song on the album?
Dany OK, that’s funny, because “Kerosene” is one of our happiest songs. [Laughs]
Ale I would say “Bloodsport” … but it’s not happy.
Dany You know what? It’s happy sounding.
Ale Not happy, but fun.
Pau Honestly, my bad. They’re not “happy,” but they make me feel, like, ayyy. [Pau does a joyful little dance in her seat]