U.S. Christmas - Cannibals Of Unaka BLUE VINYL

Blue vinyl limited to 25 copies. Includes poetry art print exclusive to this version.

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As US Christmas enters their third decade as a band, they continue to push their music into challenging new territory, blending wall-of-sound torrents of guitar, melancholic Appalachian dirge, and experimental electronic textures into a seamless and intense whole. The band’s newest release Cannibals Of Unaka is both their first in fifteen years and the first to feature a new lineup in which founder Nate Hall’s songwriting is supplemented and supported by Michael Corwin, Tony Plichta, and Graham Scala, each of whom help draw the band’s ever-evolving approach to creation into unexpected directions.

The album - originally released as a benefit record for Hurricane Helene relief in 2024 - is presented here in its finalized form complete with cover art by Jeremy Hush (Black Tusk, Rwake, Skeletonwitch) and mastering by Steven Warstler (Citizen, Heart Attack Man).

Across the five tracks the band melds the psychogeography of their home in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina, ruminations on mortality, and a borderline hermetic study of the interplay between the micro- and macrocosmic into a series of ragged jeremiads against the manner in which modern society crushes the human spirit. With a sound that integrates influences as varied as Crazy Horse, Caustic Resin, Townes Van Zandt, Coil, and Hawkwind into a seamless whole, the band’s newest release continues their decades-long journey away from the conventional and categorizable.