Motivated by the work of Li and Mantoulidis [C. Li, C. Mantoulidis, Positive scalar curvature with skeleton singularities, Math. Ann. 374(1–2) (2019) 99–131], we study singular metrics which are uniformly Euclidean [Formula: see text] on a compact manifold ([Formula: text]) negative Yamabe invariant text]. It is well known that if smooth metric unit volume text], then Einstein. We show, in all ...