Cost: $1.00
This CD is available for trade.
This is not any of the metal bands also named Tusk, although based on the cover, I was not really expecting it to be metal. It looks like it's going to be proggish (it was later reissued new artwork that seems more appropriate for its sound), but the unserious sounding songtitles made me think it was going to be more in a post-rock or sludge vein. Instead, it's noisy, screamy hardcore/grind from several members of Pelican. I'm not terribly well-versed in this type of hardcore so I'm not sure who this appeals to. There are very vague similarities to Converge or early Neurosis, but it's not quite as experimental or progressive sounding as you'd think with the presence of the Pelican guys.
Some of the later tracks are slightly more interesting since there's a higher concentration of more straightforward grind parts (most notably the short track "Blood"), but nothing worth keeping this over. Unless you are extremely open-minded about grindcore, I doubt this is going to be very satisfying. Probably best left to the weird music aficionados who love the more HC-oriented releases of Relapse, Crucial Blast, and Hydra Head.
Also just a quick warning--I've seen at least two online reviews from people who didn't seem that well versed in extreme metal, and because this was pretty noisy (and admittedly pretty hard to describe), decided it must be death metal (one review hilariously claimed Cannibal Corpse and Deicide influence!). Take it from your friendly neighborhood bargain bin hunter--while this could be classified as extreme in a sense, if you are expecting metal, let alone death metal, you'll be quite disappointed.
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