That’s SOMA DEGENERATE, streaming every Saturday (but especially 3/6/2010) on WNYU.org from 4PM to 6PM EST.

Flaming Tusk is on at 9:30 PM. There are other bands, too, which are NOT METAL. So whatever.
We think there might not be a door charge, but honestly nobody’s told us.IT’S A FREE SHOW, PEOPLE

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 slowly flattens the whole of the internet from here. You may also purchase it for whatever price you desire. I purchased it for $6.66 because I am juvenile.

Flaming Tusk’s new album Old, Blackened Century is now available for pay-what-you-will (even $0) download at music.flamingtusk.com. Pretty much any audio file format you could want is yours for the taking. Or, preferably, yours for absolutely huge, staggering sums of money. Your choice.

Did you get all that? IT’S FREE. For NO MONEY you can see Flaming Tusk, Wizardry and Empyreon rage the night away PLUS there will be half-naked, tattooed go-go dancing girls gyrating, $3 draught beer all night long, and all-metal DJ sets. $0. Gratis. I mean, what more economical way could you possibly spend your completely Satanic Friday night? This, we ask you.

If you haven’t heard Flaming Tusk blast their new material, from their forthcoming album, at you in a live setting then you simply have no excuse for missing this show. Also Wizardry and Empyreon are pretty good. Also half-naked, tattooed go-go girls dancing and cheap beer.

21+, bands go on at 10 PM. FREE.
The Production Lounge, 113 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222

$5, 21+, doors at 7PM. Flaming Tusk kicks the evening off at 7PM.
with: Ollipeist, Knives Everywhere and <a href=http://www.myspace.com/demilitia">Demilitia. SUPPORT LOCAL METAL

Flaming Tusk has crawled out from the studio and begun applying salve to its whip wounds. Eight songs. Quarts of blood lost. The fraying thread of sobriety.

We’ll get it out to you as soon as we get some artwork and figure out how many trucks we’ll need and of what size.

In the meantime here are a few more snippets:

Don Blood records a solo.

Don Blood and Xristophage test drive a mix

The mixing process doesn’t lend itself to too many photogenic moments, so that’s that. However, good ol’ Vanshnookenraggen dropped by a couple of times during both weeks with his camera.

Your first opportunity to hear some of the new material live is this week. October 9 at Public Assembly.

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 a new direction with his Wurlitzer trickery.

Xristophage records some drumming while Don Blood turns knobs

Xristophage attempts to indicate downbeats to Don Blood through the control room window.

Stolas rages against pretty much the totality of existence.

And finally the last thing we recorded on our last day of full band tracking.

Four more days of tracking and mixing lie ahead.

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.

Beaujour won reknown for his excellent engineering work on Nada Surf’s Weight Is A Gift, but has lately been indulging his love of metal by producing and recording Scale The Summit’s Prosthetic Records release Carving Desert Canyons, among other projects. He says he hopes that tracking Flaming Tusk will twist Nuthouse into an irretrievably kvlt house of torture, and we plan to do everything in our power to satisfy that desire.

Our great work begins on September 18. Look for an early winter release date, and watch this space for updates.