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HEY GUYS. We released our album, "Old, Blackened Century" today. It's a pay-what-you-will download, so you can pay $0 or $13,052,573,590. Go to this download page, or click this album cover:

Flaming Tusk plays at Public Assembly in Bollyburg this Wednesday. 7:00, $5.



We will debut Instability, the song about some shipwrecked sailors on a makeshift raft drawing straws to see who gets eaten next; meanwhile a massive interdimensional horror swims just below the surface. It looks like this:

This

was made by

this.

Shit #1: Flaming Tusk recorded a new album. We need to get it mastered. Then we release it, and you buy it.

Shit #2: we are playing this Friday, October 9, at Public Assembly in Brooklyn.

Shit #3: Zos posted a ton of things to the Flaming Tusk site, like photos and videos of us in the studio, and details on Friday's gig.

Shit #4: My beloved amplifier managed to eat it on the second day of recording. (This wasn't much of a tragedy, given the variety and brutality of the studio's amp selection.) While it's being fixed I'm practicing through a small keyboard amp with a distortion pedal. Even with this ridiculous limitation, Flaming Tusk is sounding THE BEST.

Shit #5: We're playing two new songs on Friday and lord are they brutal. You should come to the show.

We've been busy.

First off, we're playing our first show in quite a while on September 20th, at the Cake Shop in Manhattan (a fairly dope venue), with acclaimed Athens, GA metal band The Dumps.

We haven't been playing shows, and here's why: we have three new masterpieces to unveil. We wanted to take a bit of time off from playing shows to focus on developing them, because they're long, complicated and completely evil. The songs:

Instability - some shipwrecked sailors, adrift on a makeshift wooden raft, contemplate cannibalism while a Lovecraftian horror lurks below the surface

No Smiles - about cancer & chemotherapy. This took a really long time to get right, because when you start writing about something deeply personal, you feel like you need to do the topic justice, and when that thing is cancer, you start feeling really sad. Seriously, does sitting down with a guitar and thinking to yourself "I will now write a guitar part that is the musical embodiment of riding home after chemotherapy anticipating the sickness to come" sound like a good time to you?

* Killefern - impotent, misplaced rage that somehow transforms into an expanding sphere of total destruction centered around your bewildered head

We're going to start playing these live. I will play them with my new guitar: an ESP MII. Yes, that's right, I bought an actual metal guitar, and it's killing it at practice.

We're also going to PUT THEM ON OUR NEW RECORD that we're making in September. We're tracking at Nut House Studios, owned and operated by Tom Beaujour. Tom is an awesome guy and his vision for the record matches ours exactly. This should be a nasty one.

More to come...

Flaming Tusk has been invited to the new, shinier, and much-improved Muxtape.com:

http://flamingtusk.muxtape.com

Just a few pictures, a gig calendar, streaming audio and the "Ichor" video for now, but watch for more.

FLAMING TUSK AT METALKULT.COM

Fuck yeah we're heavy.

Flaming Tusk's debut appearance was a monument to sickness, gore and shredding. Our man vanshnookenraggen captured some meaningful images 4evr, and you can find them...

...HERE

Two positive reviews for Abigail from two well-regarded metal websites, Chronicles of Chaos and Metal-Rules:

CoC review

Metal-Rules review

PLUS! Metal-Rules interviewed us, and there's pictures.

From "World's Greatest Dad," OUCH/Garf Uncle one-night EP of yore:


A SMALL ARMY

For the nerds in the house, there's an extremely long recount of the recording of "Abigail" - process, equipment and performance - over at my barely-legal livejournal:

http://donblood.livejournal.com/13965.html

Digest at your peril.