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Tourniquet Lyrics



All Songs 86 Bullets A Dogs Breakfast A Ghost At The Wheel Acid Head America Antiseptic Bloodbath Architeuthis Ark Of Suffering Bats Bearing Gruesome Cargo Besprinkled In Scarlet Horror Broken Chromosomes Caixa De Raiva Carried Away On Uncertain Wings Carry The Wounded Chamunda Temple Stampede Chart Of The Elements Claustrospelunker Convoluted Absolutes Crank The Knife Crawl To China Descent Into The Maelstrom Dogman Drawn And Quartered Drinking From The Poisoned Well Drowning Machine Duplicitous Endeavor Dysfunctional Domicile En Hakkore Enveloped In Python Erratic Palpatations Of The Human Spirit Erratic Palpitations Of The Human Spirit Exoskeletons Fed By Ravens Eaten By Vultures Flowering Cadaver Gelatinous Tubercles Of Purulent Ossification Ghost At The Wheel Going Going...Gone Harlot Widow And The Virgin Bride Heads I Win Tails You Loose Healing Waters Of The Tigris If I Was There If Pigs Could Fly Imaginary Friend Immunity Vector Impending Embolism In Death We Rise Incommensurate Indulgence By Proxy K517 Lost Language Of The Andamans Martyrs Pose Melting The Golden Calf Microscopic View Of A Telescopic Realm My Promise Officium Defunctorum Oh Well Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance Pecking Order Perfect Night For A Hanging Phantom Limb Proprioception Psycho Surgery Pushin Broom Ready Or Not Restoring The Locust Years Ruminating Virulence Servant Of The Bones Skeezix Dilemma Sola Christus Somnambulism Spectrophobic Dementia Spineless Stereotaxic Atrocities Stumblefoot Swarming Spirits Tears Of Korah The Hand Trembler The Maiden Who Slept In The Glass Coffin The Skeezix Dilemma The Skeezix Dilemma Part II The Tell-Tale Heart The Test For Leprosy The Threshing Floor The Tomb Of Gilgamesh The Waters Theodicy On Trial Tire Kicking Trivializing The Momentous Complicating The Obvious Twilight Vanishing Lessons Viento Borrascoso Vitals Fading When The Love Is Right Where Moth And Rust Destroy White Knucklin The Rosary Whitewashed Tomb You Get What You Pray For Your Take
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Tourniquet was an American Christian metal band that formed in Los Angeles in 1990. It was founded by Ted Kirkpatrick, Guy Ritter, and Gary Lenaire. Tourniquet primarily played a mixture of thrash and progressive metal and was influenced by additional, non-rock forms of music such as classical and world music. The band earned six GMA Dove Award nominations and won multiple recognitions from the readers of HM Magazine, including "Favorite Band of the 1990s" and "Favorite Album of the 1990s" for Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance (1992). They released ten studio albums, two live albums, four compilation albums, one EP, and several video releases. The last Tourniquet lineup consisted of Ted Kirkpatrick (drums) and Aaron Guerra (guitar, vocals, bass). The band disbanded after Kirkpatrick's death in 2022.

Tourniquet has sold more than 300,000 albums. In addition to their use of classical music, the band is known for frequently using medical terminology in their album and song titles and lyrics. The band's 2003 release, Where Moth and Rust Destroy, features special guests Marty Friedman (formerly of Megadeth) and Bruce Franklin (of Trouble), both on lead guitar. Tourniquet's members spoke out against animal abuse and appeared in publications such as The Vegetarian Times, United Animal Nations, and Animal Agenda.
Also Known As: The Tourniquet Ark
Members:
Ted Kirkpatrick - drums (1989-2022), bass (1989-1990, 1996-1998, 1998-2002, 2008-2022) (died 2022)
Guy Ritter - vocals (1989-1993)
Gary Lenaire - guitar, vocals (1989-1996)
Erik Mendez - guitar (1990-1993)
Victor Macias - bass (1990-1996)
Vince Dennis - bass (1998)
Steve Andino - bass (2002-2008)
Luke Easter - vocals (1993-2015)
Aaron Guerra - guitar, vocals (1994-2003, 2005-2022), bass (studio, 2008-2022)
Name Origin:
The band is named for the tourniquet, "a surgical device for arresting hemorrhage by compression of a blood vessel." According to the band, a 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."
From: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genre(s): Thrash metal, progressive metal, Christian metal
Active From: 1990-2022
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