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.
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stolas published this entry on Thursday 02 April, 2009 at 1:32 pm. It's been filed in the press category. {Comments}
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 the [...]
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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 what [...]
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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
Sounds of War - Asylum
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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 backwards [...]
Zosimus published this entry on Thursday 18 December, 2008 at 3:42 pm. It's been filed in the press category. {Comments}
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 with resentment [...]
Zosimus published this entry on Monday 01 December, 2008 at 12:39 pm. It's been filed in the press category. {Comments}
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 Doors [...]
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Metal website Chronicles Of Chaos has posted a review of Flaming Tusk’s Abigail EP in their Demos section.
CoC is a well-respected webzine venerated within the metal scene for its forward-looking criticism. Since 1995 they’ve broken metal acts like Dimmu Borgir and Strapping Young Lad into internet consciousness, and the site continues listening to and reviewing [...]