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High Water Media is proud to announce the physical release of catalog number HWM003. Flaming Tusk’s debut full length Old, Blackened Century is now available as a CD via the band’s website. The four-panel digipak features liner notes and a selection of lyrics rendered in a mysterious scribal notation.
Old, Blackened Century can be had in physical form or downloaded from music.flamingtusk.com.
The praise is trickling in for HWM affiliates Flaming Tusk and their new album Old, Blackened Century.
First out of the gate was Atanamar at Sunyata: Mindful of Metal who awarded the album an 86/100 and had the following to say:
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 days. Old, Blackened Century has violently appropriated my attention, much like Cobalt’s Gin did last year.
The songwriting is superlative and certainly one of Flaming Tusk’s greatest assets…. Old, Blackened Century is sparse, raw and just what I need at the moment. Most new bands these days sound like poorly stitched Frankenstein monsters of metal methodology. Flaming Tusk are a fully evolved beast with a distinct and appealing sound. This shit just rocks. Old, Blackened Century is definitely worth checking out.
Atanamar has also posted a blackly glowing review of a live Flaming Tusk gig.
Metal blog No Clean Singing is super down with Old, Blackened Century too, saying (in a remarkably comprehensive review):
When we listen to Flaming Tusk, we’re reminded at different times of Cobalt, Tombs, Hull, Ludicra, Coalesce, early Mastodon, and — well, you get the idea. Like we said, hard to classify. They don’t really sound exactly like any of those bands, and we certainly don’t mean to suggest they’re intentionally modeling themselves on any of them, but drawing those comparisons is one feeble way of giving you an idea of what Old, Blackened Century brings to mind.
Maybe it’s enough to say that if you’re starting to get bored with the metal you’ve been cranking recently, and you’re after something out of the box, you should go listen to Flaming Tusk’s horrifyingly enjoyable opus. (But really, be forewarned about the last song on the album — “Icy River”, which clocks in at nearly 10 minutes — it’s like the sonic equivalent of being tied naked to your bed with a dozen giant, oily black centipedes slowly crawling toward your face.)
Old, Blackened Century is available as a pay-what-you-will download from flamingtusk.com.
High Water Media is proud to announce the at-long-last release of Flaming Tusk’s first full-length album: Old, Blackened Century.
HWM is offering this album as a pay-what-you-will download to acknowledge that digital music has become an essentially uncontrolled, infinitely available commodity, and to highlight that this is an entirely independent production financed solely by the band. Supporters of independent music know what they must do; support it.
This widget will allow the curious to stream the album in its entirety:
Catch Flaming Tusk at any number of live shows coming up over the remainder of this winter and into the spring.
High Water Media will release Flaming Tusk’s first full-length album Old, Blackened Century via the band’s official website at music.flamingtusk.com on Tuesday, January 19th 2010 as catalog number HWM003.
The tracks will be available in a wide variety of digital formats, and the band will be asking visitors to “pay what you will” in order to download the songs.
The track listing of the album as follows:
Flaming Tusk have survived eight brutal days in the studio at Nuthouse Recording under the whip of Tom Beaujour.
The as-yet untilted full length album will probably be released in late fall or early winter, 2009, following mastering, the finishing of artwork and laying down the infrastructure necessary for worldwide dissemination.
Flaming Tusk posted a notice on their website today announcing that they begin recording their followup to the Abigail EP this month, with producer / engineer Tom Beaujour behind the glass.
Beaujour is known for many things, such as engineering Nada Surf’s Weight Is A Gift, producing and recording Scale The Summit’s Carving Desert Canyons, and being the editor-in-chief of Revolver Magazine. The band is, reportedly, quite excited to get to work.
Tracking begins on September 11, and the album should be ready for release by early winter.
Friends of High Water Media Flaming Tusk have had their debut EP Abigail reviewed by Chronicles Of Chaos.
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 demos by up and coming bands.
Staff writer Paul Williams, who has also critiqued Dragonforce’s Ultra Beatdown and Nervecell’s Human Chaos for the site, rated Abigail a 3.5 out of 5 and had, generally, quite positive things to say about the record:
The debut EP _Ab[i]gail_ from NYC metal-heads Flaming Tusk seems to be a solid piece of music, incorporating, with ease, musical styles from a wide range of metal genres, from dashes of hardcore through to some gloomy doom. A particular stand out track is the closer song “26 Legions”, a great show of all the influences the band have, in a single song, and just over nine minutes. All three of the other songs show some quality heavy metal. With great but not overdone production, the band delivers some catchy riffs…
Paul Williams, Chronicles of Chaos, 10/24/08
Flaming Tusk’s Abigail EP is available as a free download in a variety of digital formats. Visit flamingtusk.com.
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For more information, contact:
Keith Putnam
High Water Media LLC
First Floor
917-886-2056
NYC INDIE BAND SEIZE THEM! RELEASES EP UNDER CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE
April 25, 2008,
Seize Them!’s producer Don Red, who has worked with such east-coast musical luminaries as Cyclub, The Thungs, Mr. Dang Dang, Prince Büd and OUCH explained the band’s motivations by saying “Creative Commons gives artists maximum control over their work without sacrificing connection to the audience, and that connection is the reason we’re in this business in the first place. It’s for people who believe that music is free, but artists should get paid for their labor.” Creative Commons was developed in 2001 by intellectual property experts James Boyle, Michael Carroll, and Lawrence Lessig, MIT computer science professor Hal Abelson, cyberlaw expert Eric Saltzman, and public domain Web publisher Eric Eldred to facilitate sharing of creative works by creating a structure for content creators to retain certain intellectual property rights while giving up others.
The band will sell the disc via their website, as well as in digital download form at the iTunes Music Store and other outlets. They also offer full recordings of most of their live shows to fans for free.
About The Band: Seize Them! is a four-piece rock ensemble from
For further information, contact Keith Putnam at (917) 886-2056
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