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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.
Busy times for High Water Media!
Our fearless leader just spent eighteen days performing technician duties for the two RED One cameras being used to shoot the upcoming feature film As Good As Dead which stars Cary Elwes, Frank Whaley, Andie MacDowell, Matt Dallas and Jess Weixler. Look for it to premiere sometime in 2009.
Musically, HWM band Seize Them! has just established a monthly residency at Tribeca NYC nightspot Uncle Mike’s, so be sure to go check them out. Flaming Tusk (website coming soon!) have just begun recording their 2008 demo at HWM’s basement recording studio, and we’re all very excited by the results so far. It appears their songs “26 Legions”, “Abigail (Guts Down The Drain)”, “My Red Son”, “Ichor” and “I Nap In Blood” are likely to make the cut.
High Water Media is very likely to put in an appearance at the 2009 South By Southwest Festival. We’ll be hanging around, checking out bands, passing out demos and generally promoting HWM affiliates. See you there!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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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The Seize Them! EP (as yet untitled) is set to go to the final mix this week, putting the band on track for their record release gig at Don Hill’s on April 25th.
The HWM basement studio has begun hosting practices for Flaming Tusk, New York City’s newest and most evil metal band. Watch this space for more info as is warranted.
High Water Media is sitting down with an accountant for the first time this weekend to take care of this “taxes” thing we keep hearing so much about. Hopefully the feds won’t bankrupt us.
More later?
Apologies for the lag in updates. But there is now news!
High Water Media LLC is officially recognized by the State of New York as a legal business entity. Huzzah! And we’ve had our first income in the form of “production consulting” for Tobin Productions, a venerable and respected media house here in NYC. The next step is finding a suitable financial institution in which to deposit our monies. We’re thinking a credit union of some kind. And that needs to be taken care of prior to filing our first tax return, so time is short.
Meanwhile, Seize Them! continues working on recording their first EP. The bass parts to the six songs were tracked this past weekend at our basement studio and everyone is very happy with the results. The band is on schedule to have the EP ready for their April 25 record release party at Don Hill’s in Manhattan.
Shooting continues on the Everything, Kansas documentary project and we’re nothing but pleased with the results so far. Keep watching this space for updates.
Events! Occurrences! Things are happening.
High Water Media LLC is mere microns away from being a fully legal business in the eyes of New York State and the Federal gummint. Actually, as far as the Fed are concerned we’re golden. NY needs us to publish notice of our formation in a couple of newspapers, and according to the Queens County Clerk that will be handled for us if we send the right forms to the Clerk’s office. This has been done. Whether or not they follow through remains to be seen.
However, we have submitted our first invoice, for some videography work last weekend, and with that check we’ll be opening a bank account! How exciting.
In more creative news, we’ve just returned from Annandale, Virginia, where we shot more interview footage for the documentary-in-progress Everything, Kansas. The shoot went incredibly well, and much thanks to Scott and Julia Hiland for their hospitality and participation.
This coming weekend we’ll be trekking out to New Jersey to record drum tracks for the Seize Them! EP. Rock and roll progress is being made. Debauched rock and roll progress. Oh yes.
Download Old, Blackened Century. Pay what you will. And YOU WILL.
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