Royal Tusk returns with mammoth new album

With the release of its new album, Edmonton rock band Royal Tusk feels emboldened with a heavier sound. Vocalist Daniel Carriere and bassist Sandy MacKinnon have managed to take what was initially a side-project born from their original band, Ten Second Epic, and build it into a mammoth music machine.
Royal Tusk performs Monday, Nov. 26, at the Starlite Room.Tusk II took 24 days to record, in two sessions, at Vespa Studios in North York, Ont. 
Carriere says the songs were written over a per