BLACK TUSK: New Song Posted Online

April 7, 2010

"Embrace The Madness", a brand new track from Savannah, Georgia's BLACK TUSK, is avaialble for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The song comes off the band's forthcoming album, "Taste The Sin", which is scheduled for release on May 25 via Relapse Records. The follow-up to "Passage Through Purgatory" was recorded at the Jam Room (BARONESS, BAND OF HORSES, KYLESA, WITHERED) in Columbia, South Carolina with engineers Jay Matheson and Steve Slavich. A preview of the album's artwork, as designed by John Dyer Baizley, can be viewed below.

BLACK TUSK is on the road with North Carolina's WEEDEATER as part of a four-week U.S. tour that kicked off around South By Southwest. The trek also includes GATES OF SLUMBER and STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

BLACK TUSK teamed up with video director Kevin Custer (FLOGGING MOLLY, HATEBREED, TOMBS) last month in Austin, Texas to film the first video from "Taste The Sin". The "Red Eyes, Black Skies" clip is expected make its online debut soon.

Formed in 2005, BLACK TUSK released its full-length debut, "Passage Through Purgatory", in 2008 via Hyperrealist. The band more recently issued a series of split seven-inch singles, including those with ASG, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN and FIGHT AMP.

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