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California, United States (1989 – present)

Tourniquet is an american christian thrash metal band, based out of California. Formed in 1989.
The current members of Tourniquet are Ted Kirkpatrick (drums), Luke Easter (vocals), and Aaron Guerra (guitar, vocals).
Former members include Gary Lenaire, Guy Ritter, Victor Macias, Erik Mendez, Steve Andino (bass) and Vince Dennis.
The band is named after a tourniquet which is a surgical device for arresting hemorrhage by compression of a blood vessel. According to the band, tourniquet is a metaphor for “a lifelong spiritual process by which a personal God, through the atoning blood, death, and resurrection of His only Son—Jesus Christ—can begin to stop the flow of going through life without knowing and serving our Creator. He is our Tourniquet.”

Tourniquet was formed as a christian thrash metal band. The group was one of many bands who were, at the time, affiliated with a church group called Sanctuary - the rock and roll refuge in Los Angeles. They started out with Ted Kirkpatrick(drums), Guy Ritter (vocals) and Gary Lennaire (guitaris/vocalist).
Their first record Stop the Bleeding was produced in 1990, by Bill Metoyer of Metal Blade Records, and released by Intense Records. While it was mostly distributed to Christian bookstores, Stop the Bleeding was a notable Christian thrash metal album in its time. Tourniquet’s characteristic style broke new ground and quickly gained them fans all over the world. In their early line up, Guy Ritter sang the more melodic vocal parts while Gary Lenaire did the aggressive, thrash metal shouts.

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1	Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance	28
2	Vanishing Lessons	21
2	Bearing Gruesome Cargo	21
4	Melting the Golden Calf	20
5	Ark of Suffering	19
6	Impending Embolism	18
6	Bats	18
6	Immunity Vector	18
9	Twilight	16
10	If Pigs Could Fly	15
11	Restoring the Locust Years	14
11	My Promise	14
13	Claustrospelunker	13
13	Phantom Limb	13
15	Microscopic View Of A Telescopic Realm	12

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Zyklopie

Just because this is a Christian band with a bunch of Christian fans, let me just preface this with saying that religion is a repressive cancer, and secularism is the future of free and open society. Anyhow, being very young in the early 90's I never listened to thrash enough to realize, what the fuck is up with this fusion with hip-hop? Now I realize that bands like Tourniquet and Anthrax cleared the way for the shitty ass rap and nu metal that prevented me from even going near what I thought was metal until well into my teens. Fuck that shit, hail Satan.

Wednesday evening
iik95

really enjoy their music!

Saturday evening
KosTeT72RUS

Crawl To China - гениальный альбом!

11 days ago
ddrruummeerr

The best christian music :)

last month
FuziusIII

When is the new album coming out? Check out my "introduction to tourniquet" review on my blog(= :http://underratedreviews.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/an-introduction-to-tourniquet/

December 2011
anesthetize7

They're working on a new album, hurray! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG54WJnZiXY&feature=related

December 2011
metalichell

really good !! didnt expect em to be this good !

November 2011
SalvatoreEvan

Ready Or Not beat every vocal of King Diamond..

November 2011
ThrashasMetalas

best christian metal band. SUPER underrated..

November 2011
peliculiar

Very underrated. Really a great band. "Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm" is a masterpiece!

October 2011
AEARGH

sounds good!

September 2011
nomoresorrow777

http://www.lastfm.it/music/Verdelger

June 2011
mrmichel0927

These guys are so good \m/

May 2011
The_Shaman__

http://www.lastfm.com.br/music/Tourniquet/+images/62581647 vote ppl

May 2011
sammyiam55

I didn't even know these guys were a Christian band 'cause the first song I heard was Immunity Vector (aka the greatest song ever). Seems odd for a Thrash Metal Christan band....... But hey, good music and it spreads the word.

April 2011
anesthetize7

...here I cooooome!

March 2011
taubstumm

Ready or not...

February 2011
super_ruben09

In metal the music should always be more important than lyrical content.

February 2011
The_Shaman__

Gary isn't Christian anymore :(

January 2011
patryxdeth

"Psycho Surgery" and "Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance" were great albums! Innovative progressive thrash metal at its best... I also like the "Carry the Wounded" EP and the new material from "The Collected Works" very much! Looking forward to the next album!

December 2010