U.S. Christmas - Salt The Wound

Originally self-released on a CDr in 2005, and then (officially) by R.A.I.G. In 2006, 'Salt The Wound' is considered a milestone within the stoner rock underground. It led USX straight to signing with Neurot Recordings, as the album clearly stormed and swept the scene with its sincere and emotionally-charged qualities. Comparable to the likes of Neil Young's starving curiosity on his early albums, Neurosis' later ones, Hawkwind to Caustic Resin's spaced-out ones and God Machine's only two mournful albums, while delivering a genuine, graphic and terrestrial diatribe with an impact that is still throbbing nowadays. 'Salt The Wound' brilliantly kicks off with 'Lazarus'; a slow-paced and darkly Northern Carolina Appalachian-blues ballad that gradually builds up into a sonic statement of abrasive electric guitars, steady and acumen Theremin flickering and feverish synths. Continued by the attack in full force through the foggy-blackened upbeat of 'Death By Horses' and the acidic bubbling doom of the 'Devil's Flower' to the monolithic instrumental hard rock of 'Thin The Herd' and back again to the hazy (and also instrumental) space-rock dirge of 'Norpo', 'Salt The Wound' is a rare and uncut diamond of surreal sludge beauty that should be referred to as a contemporary classic. The album was re-mastered and comes with new artwork and two studio tracks from the original 2005 release that were not featured on the R.A.I.G. reissue CD, Album, Reissue