Flaming Tusk is What I Said.
One topic I haven’t touched on much in these pages is the metal band I play in, Flaming Tusk. We formed, as I recall, around February of this year. It was me on drums, Don Blood on lead guitar (It was my idea, as a sort of lark, but he was the one foolhardy and stubborn enough to take me up on it), and soon after Zosimus PM and Schneidaar. Within—what, a couple weeks? A month?—We got ourselves a vocalist, my dear old friend Stolas Trephinator.
Since then we’ve been practicing and writing new songs, but we haven’t played out or done any recording—until now! Late last month we started finally laying down tracks for a four-track demo, designed to get something on tape and maybe get us some shows.
Well, the recording went really well. Well enough, in fact—with dearly appreciated help by my friend James at the mastering console—that we have upgraded it from a demo to an EP. We called it Abigail ((King Diamond, please call your office.)) and we have released it, for free, through the very nifty band hosting site bandcamp.mu. We’ve got our own website, of course: http://flamingtusk.com, a little number I drunkenly cobbled together over a weekend; but with bandcamp we’ve got great streaming, multi-format downloads, and embeddable players, and it’s free for you and us. You can access the music at http://flamingtusk.com, but you can also go straight to the album at http://tusk.bandcamp.mu.
Anyway, I hope you listen, and I hope you like it. We’re going to start looking for some shows, so maybe you’ll see us soon, too.
Hail tusk.
