Tourniquet brings the metal. But not the Slipknot-style mall metal. No, this is the tough thrash metal of the 80s. Actually, these guys were still around back then, too. They released some of thier best cds during that time. Well, they're still around thrashing and soloing for all they're worth.
Tourniquet always stood out from the crowd. First off, listening to their cds was like reading a medical dictionary. One of their cd titles was "Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance." It didn't get any less confusing from there. But that was cool. It was thinking man's metal. Second of all, the drummer (and core member) Ted Kirkpatrick has an "unconventional" drumming style. I am not a drummer, I would not know, but he's been featured in drumming magazines because of it so I just take thier word for it. Third, Tourniquet includes many classical music influences in thier music. It can be seen in how guitar solos are arranged and executed. They used a lot of extra instruments, like flutes, on thier last cd, "Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm."
Which brings us to "Where Moth and Rust Destroy". The music is very simular to "Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm" as opposed to the rest of thier cds. The songs are long (most between 6 and 9 minutes). The guitar solos are intense. The vocals are varried (clean singing, growly singing, spoken word, and everything inbetween).
Sounds good enough for most metal heads, eh? Well, there is one turn off. To get to the meaty, good parts of the songs, you have to suffer through two or three minutes of redundant barre chords with vocals. I, personally, don't have enough patience on a normal basis to wait it out.
Tourniquet is good. They don't do things the right, safe way. They do things as they want to. The listener has to suffer through boring parts to get to the cool stuff.
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Article comments
1 - Jaymz
Ummmmmmmmm "Tourniquet brings the metal. But not the Slipknot-style mall metal. No, this is the tough thrash metal of the 80s. Actually, these guys were still around back then, too. They released some of thier best cds during that time. Well, they're still around thrashing and soloing for all they're worth" Your quote is so horrifcially wrong. Tourniquet was not around in the 80's so to speak. They realesed their first album in late 1990 it was called Stop The Bleeding please dont write about band you KNOW nothing ABOUT.
2 - Chris Beaumont
While the origin facts may not be correct, I liked the review. I have the Microscopic view album and thought it was a pretty good album. I have a cassette of STop the Bleeding which I thought was an incredible album, one of the more original metal albums I've heard, I still need to track it down on CD though....