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Alberta, Canada-based Rock trio Royal Tusk have recently released their third full-length album, Altruistic, via MNRK Music Group and an accompanying documentary, Do No Wrong: The Making of Altruistic.

Spending nearly a year writing throughout the pandemic, the trio eventually went into Alberta’s Audio Department recording studio where they self-produced Altruistic. In the midst of the process, frontman Daniel Carriere embarked on a year-long battle to get healthy after suffering from a blood clot in his lung with extreme health impacts.

Carriere says:

Sandy [bassist] and Quinn [guitarist] helped me through the entire experience. These songs were written prior to this life-changing event, but they still tell a story of struggle, suffering, uncertainty, courage, and watching your back. It’s bizarre how that happened. When I think of them now, they definitely illustrate what we all went through.

The band cite their experiences of “trials and tribulations” as the key to their “friendships, brotherhood and tenacity” that prevailed. In the documentary, audiences can witness the “raw emotion, sweat, and imaginative determination” they brought to their album.