Yersin - Die Alone (feat. Sarah Jezebel Deva)

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If you thought Sunderland’s Yersin were ever going to go soft, acoustic, and start writing love songs about sunsets and rainbows, well… you clearly haven’t been paying attention. Their latest single, Die Alone, is 100% pure, unfiltered Yersin – dark, gritty, and heavy as a brick through a windscreen.

From the first note, it slams into you like a wrecking ball, only uglier, louder, and with far less concern for your safety. It’s so heavy your speakers will probably start apologising halfway through, and your neighbours will be hammering on the door asking whether you’re summoning something from the loft (spoiler: I absolutely was. Mwahahaha.)

And just when you think it can’t get any better, in walks Sarah Jezebel Deva, laying down those spooky, ghostly harmonies in the background. It’s like a choir of lost souls decided to join the band – eerie, haunting, and brilliant enough to send shivers down your spine and have the cat hiding under the sofa for the rest of the evening.

They haven’t messed with the formula, thank God – it’s exactly what fans want: brutal riffs, thunderous noise, and that wonderfully grim atmosphere they do better than anyone. Die Alone proves once again that Yersin don’t do “easy listening” – they do “neck ache by the second chorus and a noise complaint by the end”.

If this doesn’t make you want to bang your head, check your pulse – you might already be dead.