| For other uses, see Tourniquet (disambiguation).Surgical tourniquets enable surgeons to work in a bloodless operative field.Emergency tourniquets are used in emergency bleeding control to prevent severe blood loss from limb trauma.This page was last modified 18:47, 20 December 2007.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.For other uses, see Tourniquet (disambiguation).Tourniquet is known for its characteristic style.One of the band's trademarks is the incorporation of classical music into their guitar riffs.They are also known for the medical terminology used in their lyrics.Tourniquet's first three albums are cited as classics of thrash metal.In the early 1990s Tourniquet stood out from other thrash groups with its drum work and two vocalists who mastered their vocal ranges outstandingly well.While Tourniquet is said to be a musically skilled group, they never became as big as the "Big Four" of thrash metal: Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth.The current members of Tourniquet are Ted Kirkpatrick (drums), Luke Easter (vocals), Steve Andino (bass) and Aaron Guerra (guitar, vocals).The band's latest release, Where Moth and Rust Destroy, features special guests Marty Friedman, formerly of Megadeth, and Bruce Franklin, formerly of Trouble, on lead guitar.They are outspoken against animal abuse, appearing in many publications such as The Vegetarian Times and United Animal Nations, and Animals Agenda.The band is named after a tourniquet which is "a surgical device for arresting hemorrhage by compression of a blood vessel."He is our Tourniquet."Awards and nominations
3.Formerly Kirkpatrick had played in the Chicago doom metal group Trouble on their Run to the Light tour.Tourniquet recorded its first studio album Stop the Bleeding in 1990 and it was produced by Bill Metoyer of Metal Blade Records, though it was released by Intense Records.Tourniquet's characteristic style broke new ground and quickly brought them fans all over the world.The promotional photos from Stop the Bleeding era also show that Tourniquet had some 1980s influences on their image.With this line up, Guy Ritter sang the more melodic vocals while Gary Lenaire did the aggressive thrash metal shouts.Mark Lewis played lead guitars on the album as a session member.Later, Victor Macias joined the band as a bassist and Eric Mendez as a lead guitarist.This quintet is usually known as the classic line up of Tourniquet.Mendez and Macias performed on the music video for the song "Ark of Suffering".Due to its violent content, portraying animal abuse, the video was not shown too many times on MTV.However, it was noted for its stance in the media.In the year 1991, Tourniquet abandoned its 1980s metal influences and recorded a more modern album called Psycho Surgery.Psycho Surgery showed Kirkpatrick's interest in classical music more clearly and his background in the pharmacy industry: many of the songs utilize medical terminology as metaphors for social issues, and the guitar riffs show a strong classical music influence.Some critics described it as if "Slayer plays Beethoven in a slightly rewritten way".In 1992, Tourniquet released a music VHS called Video Biopsy.In 1993, Tourniquet recorded its most technical and darkest album by far, Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance.Eventually he left the band during the recording session due to musical disagreements.Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance became one of the most popular albums among Tourniquet fans, and it has been voted as the favourite album of the 1990s by readers of HM Magazine.Luke Easter, who had formerly sung in a more pop rock oriented group, joined Tourniquet for the Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance tour.Tourniquet was supposed to play in the Milwaukee Metalfest in 1993 but since Glen Benton of Deicide, which was the headliner of the festival, didn't want to play with a Christian band, the festival crew was forced to cancel Tourniquet's performance.However, this brought more publicity to Tourniquet.During the same year, Intense Records released a live album called Intense Live Series, Vol.Tourniquet's cover of Trouble's song "The Tempter".In 1994, Tourniquet abandoned most of its medical terminology in the lyrics and changed its style to a more laid back hard rock.As Metal Blade Records was strictly a heavy metal music based label, Tourniquet continued to work only with Intense Records until 1997.The band soon recorded Vanishing Lessons."Bearing Gruesome Cargo" which was later released on a VHS called Pushin' Broom (1995).After the release of Vanishing Lessons, the band recorded an ep called Carry the Wounded in 1995.Many older Tourniquet fans had mixed feelings toward the EPs rock ballads.However, the band released a compilation album called The Collected Works of Tourniquet for which Tourniquet recorded the new songs "The Hand Trembler" and "Perfect Night for a Hanging".Many fans regard those as the heaviest songs Tourniquet has ever written.In 1996, Gary Lenaire left Tourniquet to form a hard rock band called Echo Hollow.Aaron Guerra joined Tourniquet as a new guitarist.While the previous songs had been Tourniquet's heaviest, the band recorded its lightest album in 1997 called Crawl to China.The album was released on Benson Records.Crawl to China divided opinions of both critics and fans with its experimental song material, such as "Bats".Ted Kirpatrick was known to play a drum solo in almost every Tourniquet concert.Many of these performances had also been filmed, and eventually in 1997 these clips were compiled on a drumming VHS called The Unreleased Drum Solos of Ted Kirkpatrick.This is the only Tourniquet release featuring bassist Vince Dennis.During the same year, Tourniquet released the music VHS titled Guitar Instructional Video and Tourniquet Live in California.In 2000, Tourniquet began writing thrash metal oriented songs again.They informed Metal Blade Rocords about it and were signed to the label again.They soon recorded their most technical album since Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance, Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm.The Improbable Testimony of the Pipsisewah".The album received rave reviews among critics.During 2001, Tourniquet reissued its first three albums, remastered and with bonus tracks, on Pathogenic Records.Megadeth) and Bruce Franklin (Trouble).This release continues the technical and progressive direction of their previous album.During the same year, Tourniquet released two music DVDs.Aaron Guerra returned to Tourniquet in 2005, and they begain to appear sporadically at concert events both in the U.Music
Tourniquet's early albums are technical thrash metal and are characterized by dark atmosphere.Many Tourniquet songs are said to include more guitar riffs than most bands write in their entire career.While the first album was more 1980s speed metal, the band began incorporating classical music in their guitar riffs, most notably on the albums Psycho Surgery and Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance.This was due to the main songwriter Kirkpatrick, who cites Beethoven, Bach, and other classical composers as some of his influences.While Luke Easter is regarded as a good vocalist, he was said to have a narrower vocal range than Guy Ritter.The hard rock era Tourniquet material is characterized by a more laid back atmosphere, especially on Vanishing Lessons.Tourniquet's lyrical influences span a wide range; everything from Old Testament narrative to medical allegories to Edgar Allan Poe type descriptive horror.Apart from Tourniquet's hard rock era, The drummer Ted Kirkpatrick has written lyrics that incorporated medical terminology.Tourniquet has also dealed some unique social issues as well."Ark of Suffering", from their very first release, Stop the Bleeding created a lot of attention by addressing the biblical perspective against animal abuse."Ruminating Virulence" (from Pathogenic Ocualr Dissonance) offers hope to the severely disabled.Accomplishments
Due to the band's world wide popularity, Tourniquet has performed in the US, Canada, Norway, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Brazil and Puerto Rico.For example, Kirkpatrick has been featured on Modern Drummer, Drums, and Aaron Guerra has been interviewed in Guitar World and Guitar for the Practicing Musician.Awards and nominations
Tourniquet has been the recipent of a number of awards.External links
Official Tourniquet Website
Official Tourniquet Discussion Zone
Tourniquet at MySpace
Tourniquet discography at MusicBrainz
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I've been ashamed to admit it for awhile, but Tourniquet is on HIATUS, in case you hadn't figured that part out already.The comic will return in the summer of 2007, after I've graduated.And I intend to launch not only the continuation to Tourniquet, but a new comic entirely.NO means speed up my progress on Tourniquet.Artists are fickle people.I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal
I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming
am I too lost to be saved
am I too lost?I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming
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