Flaming Tusk has spent four bru­tally pro­duc­tive days in the stu­dio. Eight songs are mostly in the bag. Next up, Don Blood plays gui­tar solos and Stolas Trephinator screams dia­bol­i­cal madness.

Xristophage, destroy­ing.

Stolas and Xristophage lis­ten back to the fist-pumping, grimace-inducing metal jamz.

Don Blood works on gui­tar noises with Xristophage’s assistance.

Schneidaar tries to force Flaming Tusk in [...]

Day one of the record­ing ses­sions for the new Flaming Tusk album went incredibly well.

Tom “The Squirrel” Beaujour, engi­neer, twist­ing up the brutality knobs.

Xristophage adjusts to the drumkit.

Don Blood defeats the “keep play­ing while we tweak the sound just right” endurance challenge

And at the end of the day, there’s some metal in the computer.

Flaming Tusk will be storm­ing Nuthouse Recording in the grim burg of Hoboken this month to begin record­ing the fol­lowup to the Abigail EP. Producer and engi­neer Tom Beaujour bravely vol­un­teered to with­stand the onslaught and attempt to cap­ture the hor­ror on his hard drives.

Beaujour won reknown for his excel­lent engi­neer­ing work on Nada Surf’s [...]