Blood, natural disasters, Abigail Taylor, Vietnam, human apathy, the Lesser Keys of Solomon the King, anatomical diagrams, Nordic runes, porno with the eyes cut out, massive tomes of terrifying and arcane truths, High On Fire.
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"Astoria's Flaming Tusk wins the odd bird award here. I have no idea what to call this. You Fail Me-era Converge, but sludgier, proggier and with black metal rasps? It's messy, but melodic and strangely compelling. You can download it for free at the band's site. Try or die!" - Cosmo Lee, Decibel, April 2009
The "Abigail" EP has been reviewed (briefly) in the April 2009 issue of Decibel magazine!
Flaming Tusk. Flaming Tusk is what I said. Flaming Tusk is the key, Flaming Tusk is the gateway. Our mission is clear: extinguish the sun, burn down all things bright and good, and play the song that ends the world.
Born of a miasma of musical influences and backgrounds, the five that make up this band have joined together to play metal in its most powerful form. We seek not to pigeonhole ourselves with needless descriptions or references; placing a band under a specific subcategory or linking it to bands that share its attributes is too often musically damning. When one closely defines a force, they give strength to its inversion, and Flaming Tusk embraces and conquers all. Suffice it to say that Flaming Tusk plays heavy metal—hard, loud, evil heavy metal, without irony, apology, or restraint.
Flaming Tusk celebrates metal’s true place in the order of things, swimming amongst the icy rivers of chaotic truth that run through human existence. Life is composed of absolute beauty and unspeakable horror, and it is incredible how often the former is tempered with the latter. The heavens and earth offer up creatures and ideas to us built with the most intricate complexity, and yet their hideousness and/or frailty are what define them. Adorable children are mutilated by their own playthings; creatures of the graceful seas adapt into massive eyeless leviathans; political discourse leads to chemical warfare and barbaric violence; the promise of heaven spawns demonic torment beyond comprehension. The dark entropy that completes life on this plane is what makes us feel truly alive, and so we play its anthems in desperate celebration. Flaming Tusk exists because life would feel wrong without it.
Listen, and know your true self in all its horror. Embrace the music of crushing floods, sweeping fires, crumbling cities, and spilling blood. The black central artery of the world has been tapped. Spread the metal, raise the horns, bow your heads. Flaming Tusk has arrived.
Hey, what's up? We got 2 shows going on tomorrow night in Brooklyn at the Rockstar Bar and Monday in Manhattan at the Lit Lounge. This will be our first few shows in the NYC area since August and the first with our new drummer! Kevin Hufnagel of Dysrhythmia and Gorguts will be DJ'ing our show at the Lit Lounge, so come through and hang out with us and enjoy the great bands we're playing with! I hope to see you there! If you need help with directions, send me a message!
thanks for add dudes! Where in astoria are you guys from? Two of us are from astoria too...stay in touch! Always cool to chill with more metal heads!! give us a listen too. Ian
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