Full-time inter­net per­son­al­ity Brad Nelson is first out of the gate with a review of the brand-new Flaming Tusk record, Old, Blackened Century, at his blog Unborn Whiskey.

This morn­ing, Flaming Tusk released their first LP, enti­tled Old, Blackened Century. You know that to be the best pos­si­ble title for any­thing. It streams and [...]

Flaming Tusk raises its drink­ing horns to Curran Reynolds, Precious Metal, Metalian, and Death Is Easy. Another bru­tal night at Lit Lounge. A hearty raise of the horns to all who came out tonight.

Anyone who missed us, don’t for­get: next tues­day, 5/26, we will be play­ing the Hull record release party in Brooklyn.

Flaming Tusk, hot off our review in the April 2009 issue of Decibel mag­a­zine, will be play­ing the Turnstyle Music Group show­case at The Trash Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on March 26 at 11:30PM.

Supporting us will be local hard rock­ers Catalyst, Love An Mayhem and Stone Robot.

March 26, 11:30PM The Trash Bar 256 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY 11211 21+ $8

This is gonna be a big one, children.

Flaming Tusk will be mak­ing a tri­umphant return to LIT LOUNGE‘S ever-brutal metal insti­tu­tion, PRECIOUS METAL, on April 6, 2009. This time we will even have our own equip­ment, so as bru­tal as it was last time (you’ve heard the lat­est live track, haven’t you?), it will be [...]

Friends and sub­jects, you have waited patiently. Flaming Tusk will be play­ing live in Brooklyn, New York, January 16th, at the Market Hotel ( http://www.myspace.com/markethotelnyc ). Go to 1142 Myrtle Ave @ Broadway in Brooklyn (right at the Myrtle Ave stop on the JMZ) at 9:30pm and see us play live. $5 at the door if [...]

Dark Sky Records, an indie label out of California, has seen fit to include two tracks from the Abigail EP in their lat­est “Underground Rising” pod­cast dis­trib­uted for free at the iTunes Music Store. It’s us and four other unsigned bands, so sup­port your independent metal!

Here’s the full track listing:

“Feeding the War Machine” by M-16 “26 Legions” [...]

Flaming Tusk has decided to burn myspace to the ground. Help us out, if myspace is your social net­work of choice (or, as it may be, neces­sity), by vis­it­ing our page and “friending” us.

A crush­ing song by Flaming Tusk will be played this Tuesday on Internet metal radio sta­tion KWTF: The Edge on Kore Rozzik’s Tuesday night local metal show. The update for Rozzik’s show, includ­ing Flaming Tusk and the other local bands play­ing, is right here.

Tune in this Tuesday and sup­port local metal acts and Flaming Tusk.

Now that “Abigail” is done, I thought I’d write up some notes on how it was recorded and mixed, in chrono­log­i­cal order.  This should be inter­est­ing to the two audio engi­neer­ing nerds in my social cir­cle and is prob­a­bly going to get pretty long, but fuck it.

(PS, yeah, it turned out to be really long, disorganized [...]