Louisville, Kentucky trio Young Widows specialize in monolithic, Sabbath-esque stomps – heavy on the fuzz and decibels, slow on the tempo. Now, check out that artwork above and consider the PR remarks that the band “kill the fashionably bored and resurrect the evil dead”. Sounds like maybe some sort of ruse or self-parody, no? Oh, but that couldn’t be further from the truth – Young Widows are deathly serious.

The band’s latest single, “Kerosene Girl”, the first issued from upcoming album, Easy Pain, certainly retains their hallmark brutality, but with a lead foot on the accelerator. Bassist Nick Theineman and drummer Jeremy McMonigle beat their instruments to a bloody pulp propelling it along as guitarist and front man Evan Patterson wails away about his penchant for stalking, howling: “I slipped inside your house/I slipped inside your room and I saw you there/I don’t know you, you don’t know me/you’ll never know my naaaaaaaame…”

Primal, obsessive, claustrophobic, forceful, the only reason you want it over with is so you can mercifully catch your breath.

Young Widows’ Easy Pain is out 13 May via Temporary Residence Ltd.