- Sacrament Music
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Good luck trying to triangulate the coordinates of White Widows. At the core, the quintet trudges ahead with a bruising weight most closely associated with Southern lords like Eyehategod, or maybe Down. But during "Collateral Damage," the furious closer of their self-titled debut, they throttle into hardcore stomp, especially at the hook, where frontman David Castillo shouts, "They are the wretched ones" above a chug tough enough to match the imprecation. There’s even a guitar solo that somehow splits the difference between psychedelic rock and power metal.
Though their strains are all over the map, White Widows bully them convincingly within these five minutes of ricochet. Perhaps that’s a testament to the long tenures of the four members in a half-dozen other bands largely from Brooklyn, where Castillo helps run the metal sanctuary Saint Vitus and the new label responsible for this massive gambit, Sacrament Music.
[from White Widows; out 03/01/13 via Sacrament Music]