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 at [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]