U.S. Christmas, also known as USX for short, hail from the mountains of North Carolina. Their sound is huge, enveloping, painkiller-slow jams. Totally psychedelic and far-out, this is one of the first bands in a few years I have been excited about hearing new material from. Ian introduced me to their vinyl EP a while back, and I’ve been praying for more releases at night before bed ever since. I say, “Dear God, bring me more spaced-out demonic music, please. Bring me heavily-effected druggy fuzz rock, and also tons of gash, and money, and pills.” Then I fall asleep crying because I have to keep making the same requests night after night.
Dude sings “Let’s drink bottles of gasoline” over and over during the song, “Silent Tongue.” Need I say more?
From Crucial Blast:
“For their first real album, the band has taken material from their previous discs and reworked/rearranged/re-recorded them into Salt The Wound, with a sound that combines classic 70’s psych rock, Caustic Resin, Neurosis-like dirge, gooey sludge metal, blues and early country music, Hawkwind style space-rock explorations, and the expansive fire rock of late ’70s Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Quite a heady mix, but Salt The Wound ties these influences and stylings together with a righteously loose energy as the band works out extended riff feasts littered with spacey theremin strains and some of the coolest molten synthesizer woosh this side of Comets On Fire, resulting in 10 jams of awesome life affirming heaviness. At just over an hour long, the band keeps it dynamic and ever changing as they move from the moving, distortion-caked country/space rock sludge of “Lazarus” to “Death By Horses” awesome motorik rush, the doomed cosmic boogie of “Devil’s Flower” and “Thin The Herd” instrumental Southern rock. Trippy, rocking, crushing, this is a stellar first album from U.S. Christmas, presented in a gatefold sleeve with great artwork by Victor Pushkin. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.”
U.S. Christmas
Salt The Wound
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Tracklist:
01. Lazarus
02. Death By Horses
03. New War
04. Devil’s Flower
05. Thin The Heard
06. Norpo
07. Black Snake
08. Queen Of The World
09. Silent Tongue
10. Black Lung
