Flaming Tusk is sad­dened to announce the depar­ture of gui­tarist Don Blood from the band, but a week’s worth of arcane chant­i­ngs and blood sac­ri­fices have sum­moned Bernard Gann (metal name TBD) to fill the vacant throne and help per­pet­u­ate Flaming Tusk’s dual-axed assault on all that is inno­cent and good. Bernard will be dividing [...]

Revolver Magazine has included Flaming Tusk in their May/June 2010 “Golden Gods” issue. ‘[Flaming Tusk sound like] High on Fire and Immortal mud-wrestling in a black­ened sludge pit full of blood, bile, lava and more blood.’ -Revolver Buy as many copies as you can find and beat your friends to death with them. In advance of our [...]

The praise con­tin­ues. Atanamar at Sunyata: Mindful of Metal scored OBC an 86/100 (Landmine Marathon and Magrudergrind scored mere 85/100s, the suck­ers) and says: I get the same sat­is­fy­ing sense of weird­ness that emerged the first time I lis­tened to Mardraum. Those feel­ings of curios­ity, ground­less­ness and amaze­ment are rarely invoked for me by metal these [...]

Tomorrow, Saturday, March 6th, Flaming Tusk pol­lutes the net­waves with a half-hour long live in-studio set (plus a band inter­view) on WNYU.org stream­ing radio’s unbe­liev­ably killer metal show SOMA DEGENERATE. The show runs from 4PM to 6PM Eastern Standard Time and is avail­able any­where the ten­ta­cles of the inter­net reach. We sug­gest tun­ing in right [...]

MetalKult.com, fine pur­vey­ors of evil-centric music, have posted a Notes From The Underground on Flaming Tusk. Click here, check it, per­ish in the fire! “Young NYC heav­ies Flaming Tusk deliver some loud, abra­sive, hard-to-classify metal on their their debut EP Abigail. It’s really best that you just check this stuff out for your­self, but to quote [...]

Decibel mag­a­zine‘s Cosmo Lee (also of metal mp3 blog Invisible Oranges, Stylus, PopMatters, and Pitchfork ) wrote a brief blurb about the Abigail EP on the Throw Me A Frickin’ Bone page of the April ’09 issue. Here, repro­duced in its entirety: Astoria’s Flaming Tusk wins the odd bird award here. I have no idea [...]

Dark Sky Records has included two more Flaming Tusk tracks in one of their free Underground Rising pod­casts. Lucky num­ber 13! Track Listing: Abigail (Guts Down The Drain) – Flaming Tusk Where Does It Lie – Fear of None Circus Is In Town – Michael Sabin Church Celebrity – Hallow Ichor – Flaming Tusk Broken Down – Losing Tomorrow [...]

Friend of the band and inter­net pho­tog van­sh­nooken­raggen recently did a pho­to­shoot with the band, and he put the result­ing cull on his flickr page. You can view the set here. Here’s a secret: if you print out our pho­to­graph and, tak­ing up your cer­e­mo­nial knife in your hands, chant a cer­tain Led Zeppelin lyric [...]

Metal-Rules.com has seen fit to inter­view Flaming Tusk for their head­bang­ing reader­base. Read our first rev­e­la­tions to the world here. Q: What are the back­grounds and musi­cal influ­ences of the other mem­bers? A: Funny story. 60 years ago an iron worker died in the base­ment where Flaming Tusk cur­rently prac­tises. His spirit, rest­less, and seething [...]

The Canadian gour­mands of metal at Metal-Rules.com have reviewed the Abigail EP, rat­ing it 3 out of 5 (which trans­lates to “rec­om­mended for seri­ous fans” on their scale). Metal-Rules says: This five piece band from Astoria, New York plays an eclec­tic mix of death, black and thrash metal that draws as much musi­cal influ­ence from The [...]