I've been covering The Warning since 2021. I've interviewed Dany, Pau, and Ale multiple times. I've watched this band go from viral YouTube covers to selling out arenas across Mexico, from underground circuit buzz to Republic Records, from teenage prodigies to one of the most compelling rock acts on the planet.
Lollapalooza Chile 2026 was the up there with the best I've ever seen them.
The Setlist
Parque O'Higgins, Santiago, Chile. March 13, 2026. Show time: 2:30 PM.
- S!CK
- Satisfied
- Qué Más Quieres
- MORE
- El baile de los que sobran
- DISCIPLE
- Ritual (new song)
- Sharks
- Hell You Call a Dream
- EVOLVE
- Kerosene (live debut)
- Automatic Sun
Twelve songs. Forty-five minutes. Every second of it earned.
Kerosene Finally Burns Live
When The Warning released Kerosene in March, the conversation in every corner of their fanbase immediately turned to the same question: what does this sound like on a stage? The studio version is controlled fury — melodic enough to hook a festival crowd on first listen, heavy enough to remind you this is a band that doesn't compromise on impact.
The live version answered every question.
It's bigger. The low end hits differently under an open sky. Dany's guitar tone, which has always been one of the defining qualities of this band's sound, doesn't shrink when it leaves a controlled studio environment — if anything it expands. And the crowd response in the moment the opening riff landed was the kind of organic reaction that can't be manufactured or predicted. It confirmed what we wrote when the single dropped: Kerosene was built for exactly this.
Closing out the main body of the set with it — second to last, with Automatic Sun as the true closer — was the right call. You play your new record-setter when the crowd is at peak energy and you want to seal it. That's exactly what happened.
Ritual — Nobody Saw This Coming
The set didn't peak at Kerosene. It peaked before it.
Midway through the show, The Warning introduced a song nobody in that crowd had ever heard. No announcement on socials. No teaser. No press release. Just Dany stepping up and the band launching into something completely new.
They called it Ritual.
What followed was the rarest thing that can happen at a festival set — the collective experience of hearing a song for the first time and knowing immediately that it belongs. Ritual doesn't sound like a work in progress or a road test. It sounds like a finished piece of music that was always going to exist, performed by a band that already knows exactly what it is.
Structurally, it pushes into heavier territory than Kerosene while maintaining the melodic intelligence that's always separated The Warning from bands that are merely loud. There's a riff in the core of Ritual that hits the way the best Warning songs always do — you feel it before you process it. The crowd felt it too. That immediate physical response to new material from a room full of people who've never heard it before is the gold standard for whether a song works. Ritual worked.
The decision to debut it here — not in a club, not at a hometown show in Monterrey, but on one of the largest festival stages in South America — says something about where this band's confidence currently sits. They weren't testing it. They were presenting it.
Why This Performance Matters
I've said this before in these pages and I'll say it again: the conversation around The Warning has always been plagued by the same framing problem. People lead with the backstory — three sisters, Monterrey, YouTube covers, teenage prodigies — as if the origin story is the point. It was never the point. The music was always the point.
Lollapalooza Chile 2026 is what happens when a band finishes proving itself and just plays.
Dany has always been the gravitational center of the band's live performance, and here she was at her best — leading with authority, her guitar work landing with precision that doesn't call attention to itself because the song is what she's serving, not the performance. Ale's bass held the low end of Ritual with a weight that will make a lot more sense when the studio version eventually exists on record. Pau on drums was exactly what she always is — locked in, purposeful, never flashy.
This is what twelve years of playing together as a unit looks like. You don't get that tightness any other way.
The Next Era Is Already Here
Ritual is the beginning of something. It doesn't sound like a one-off single or a palette cleanser between records — it sounds like a statement about where this band is going next. Combined with Kerosene, the shape of the next chapter is becoming clear: harder in places, more ambitious in structure, still built on the melodic foundation that made them worth caring about in the first place.
The Warning's Latin America run has them playing through the end of March before UK dates kick in April. I've been watching this band for five years. The ceiling keeps moving up.
If you're new to The Warning — welcome to the TWA. You're in the right place.
You Have Been Warned.
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