★★★★★
Black Tusk are defined by their simple brutality. While Kylesa and Baroness have gotten softer with age, dare I even say more mainstream, Black Tusk sound just as brutal on new EP Tend No Wounds as they did on Passage Through Purgatory. For them, artistic experimentation means adding strings on one song ("The Weak and the Wise"). Otherwise, Tend No Wounds is very much the same grinding aural assault fans should expect...
- www.punknews.org
2013-08-28
★★★★★
The trio that is collectively known as Black Tusk has worked hard in the past few years to make a name for themselves in the saturated 'stoner/sludge scene over the past few years. The Savannah, Georgia trio has come a long way in their eight-year existence, releasing four full lengths and two EPs. Their second EP, the recently released Tend No Wounds, suits to fill the needs of their insatiable fan base, who are always looking for more dirty with their riffs...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-08-05
★★★★★
A dense allow forged out of sludge metal and Southern hard rock, Savannah, GA's Black Tusk have created a sound as thick and toxic as liquid asphalt. For their latest EP, , they have opted to offer a more distilled, high energy version of their aesthetic, a blistering 20 minutes that captures them at their most frenetic. Shaking off the sludge heaviness of their earlier releases, is a more nimble and lean offering, while still retaining much of the dirty, swollen guitar tone...
- exclaim.ca
2013-07-23
★★★★★
It's like Savannah, Georgia won't stop spawning great heavy-rockin' metallic sludge bands, will they? It's almost embarrassing. What do they put in their beer over there, for fuck's sake? After Kylesa and Baroness (Zoroaster and Mastodon are both from Atlanta, a four-hour drive from there), the three boys from Black Tusk aren't too far behind, proving with their fifth record that they are as heavy, mean and talented as any of their peers. If you dig High on Fire, Bison B.C...
- hour.ca
2012-01-23
★★★★★
Release Date: October 25, 2011 On their fourth full-length release, Set The Dial, Black Tusk once more deliver the kind of bone-shaking heaviness and ear-splitting decibels that permeated their last two records - albeit taken to even greater heights. So while prior releases were drenched in a swamp-like murkiness, one that coated the skull-crunching riffs in a thick black mire that evoked a delectable rawness, Set The Dial sees the band adopting a somewhat more refined approach...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-11-14
★★★★★
Black Tusk is a giving band. Just a year after dropping the phenomenal Taste the Sin, the Savannah, Ga. metal band has released another full-length, Set the Dial. While the record adds some new elements to what made Sin so great, Dial generally still finds Black Tusk sticking to its strengths. These tunes are sludgy rockers with throaty vocals and punishing rhythms. It's straightforward and fun all the way. Still, there are subtle differences that differentiate the two records...
- www.punknews.org
2011-10-31
★★★★★
Black Tusk's second Relapse disc (fourth overall) isn't exactly full of surprises, with the Savannah, GA-based sludge band doing their rough'n'tumble take on Baroness and Kylesa, filtered through stoner rock ambitions and streamlined rock aggression...
- exclaim.ca
2011-10-27
★★★★★
The single, substantive frill of Taste the Sin, the excellent Relapse debut album by Savannah, Ga., metal trio Black Tusk, comes as the final track begins. "Well, hell, World War II gave us the ball point pen," says the actor Charles Tyner in a monologue excerpted from his hilarious role as the militant Uncle Victor in the 1971 film Harold and Maude...
- pitchfork.com
2010-07-09
★★★★★
Summary: Taste the Sin sounds just like its cover-art suggests. For a state that, thanks to things like the minting of State quarters and the Allman Brothers, is primarily known of for its peaches, Georgia's metal scene is anything but sweet. Taking cues from the state's gnarled, heavily bearded past, the bands that have emerged from it over the last decade have more in common with General Sherman's "total war" conflagrations and the disgusting backwoods of Deliverance than the fuzzy fruits...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2010-05-20
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