http://highwatermedia.com/waterline A load line mark in the rising tide Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:44:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://highwatermedia.com/waterline/?p=74 High Water Media's hellbound bastard children Flaming Tusk are generating praise from the world of press beyond the internet (if there is such a thing). Revolver magazine has included Flaming Tusk as a Quick Fix in the May/June 2010 "Golden Gods" issue. Turn to page 48, where the band is described ... http://highwatermedia.com/waterline/?p=64 http://highwatermedia.com/waterline/?p=56 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 ... http://highwatermedia.com/waterline/?p=51 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 ... http://highwatermedia.com/waterline/?p=42 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 ... http://highwatermedia.com/waterline/?p=40 Flaming Tusk have survived eight brutal days in the studio at Nuthouse Recording under the whip of Tom Beaujour. http://highwatermedia.com/waterline/?p=36 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 ... http://highwatermedia.com/waterline/?p=33 High Water Media affiliates Flaming Tusk have received a brief mention in the April 2009 issue of Decibel magazine. Music critic Cosmo Lee of Decibel, Pitchfork, PopMatters, Stylus Magazine, and metal mp3 blog Invisible Oranges had this to say in the print edition of the magazine: Astoria's Flaming Tusk wins the odd ... http://highwatermedia.com/waterline/?p=30 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) ... http://highwatermedia.com/waterline/?p=27