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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:

1. Anathema
2. Cilleighfaern
3. No Smiles
4. I Nap In Blood
5. Ichor
6. Instability
7. My Red Sun
8. Icy River

Recording engineer Tom Beaujour took to his Nuthouse Recording blog recently to describe the “punishing task” of tracking the forthcoming Flaming Tusk full length:

“The absolutely massively named Flaming Tusk and their debut album was up next. Crazy-ass extreme underground metal. A smarter, more well-read bunch of guys you have never met. They are obsessed with bizarre spirits (of the alcoholic, not supernatural type) and had bottles of some of the weirdest shit I have ever seen (artichoke liqueur, anyone?) at the ready at all times.”

Read more about Tom’s further adventures recording Five Finger Death Punch, Mutiny Within and Upon A Burning Body here.

The new Flaming Tusk full-length will be out Januaryish.

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 has been interviewed by Canadian headbanger webjournal Metal-Rules.com. The interview was published yesterday, and can be read here (with pictures!).

An excerpt:

Q: ‘I Nap In Blood’ and ’26 Legions’ offer some other lyrical themes, namely gore and Satanism. Any thoughts on either?
A: 1) Gore is cool and 2) Satan is real. They’re two more classic metal tropes, and as a band we delight in the classic themes and aesthetics of metal… Musical grossness is perhaps an infinite frontier.

http://www.metal-rules.com/zine/content/view/1542/74/

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 and Black Sabbath as Immortal, via Emperor and Deicide and Testament… Singer Stolas Trephinator mixes up tortured gurgles and screams with death roars to great effect, and the fact that I’m reminded of Schmier, Zetro Souza, Abbath and Glen Benton can only be a good thing. And it’s well worth you to taking the time to read their twisted lyrics, seeing as how ABIGAIL was inspired by the true story of Abigail Taylor (I won’t spoil it for you here but you can look it up on Wikipedia)… With the jagged, doom-ish riffing and the black/death vocals, ABIGAIL is a great debut effort. With the inevitable improvement on later albums in the lyrics department as the band matures, Flaming Tusk will be one to keep an eye out for.

Read the full review by clicking here

Download the Abigail EP.

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.

New York City extreme metal band Flaming Tusk has just released their four-song debut EP, Abigail. High Water Media throws them the devil horns and wishes them maximum Satanic power. Hail the Tusk.

Visit their official website, flamingtusk.com, to download the EP for free in a wide variety of digital formats.

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

1819 25^th Road

First Floor

Astoria, NY 11102

keith@highwatermedia.com

917-886-2056

NYC INDIE BAND SEIZE THEM! RELEASES EP UNDER CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE

April 25, 2008, New York City, NY – Queens-based indie rockers Seize Them! have chosen to forego the traditional protection of copyrighting their music in favor of enabling the widest possible exposure for their work. All of the five songs comprising their debut EP have been released to the public under a Creative Commons license, allowing and encouraging fans to reuse, remix, and repurpose the tunes with very few restrictions.

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 New York City who have been gigging steadily around the metropolis for nearly a year to wide acclaim. Their debut EP is also the first release on the High Water Media label.

For further information, contact Keith Putnam at (917) 886-2056

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High Water Media’s affiliate, the excellent band Seize Them!, have made their 9.8.07 performance available for free download, in both .mp3 and FLAC formats, at the downloads section of seizethem.com. Recorded and performed live at the Jam Factory, High Water Media’s recording facility.

The band encourages you to share their music far and wide, in accordance with their taping and trading policy.