Tourniquet

See all 21 pictures

Play Radio

Listen to Tourniquet Radio, featuring artists like Mortification, Deliverance, Bride, Believer and more…

• Search on Spotify

432,957 plays (18,165 listeners)
In your library (0 plays)

Shop now at Amazon | Send Tourniquet Ringtones to Cell

Buy

• Download
• Amazon
• Send Ringtones to Cell
• Tonefuse Search

Add to my Library

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 christianthrash 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.

Read more… Edit bio

Popular tags: thrash metal, progressive metal, christian metal, christian, metal  See more

Share this artist:

• Tweet
• Send

Top Albums

• Stop the Bleeding
  Tourniquet

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $8.99
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
  Tourniquet

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $8.99
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $74.98
  • eBay Search
• Vanishing Lessons
  Tourniquet

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $8.99
  • 7digital $9.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $14.99
  • eBay Search
• Where Moth and Rust Destroy
  Tourniquet

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $8.91
  • 7digital $9.99
  • iTunes $8.91
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $6.61
  • eBay Search

Top Tracks

• Last Week
• Last 6 months

1		Ark of Suffering			24
2		Vanishing Lessons			21
3		The Test for Leprosy			19
4		Melting the Golden Calf			17
4		Ready or Not			17
4		Restoring the Locust Years			17
7		Bearing Gruesome Cargo			16
7		Where Moth and Rust Destroy			16
7		Whitewashed Tomb			16
10		The Threshing Floor			15
10		Immunity Vector			15
10		Claustrospelunker			15
10		Twilight			15
10		Phantom Limb			15
15		Drawn and Quartered			14

Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3

See more