Stop the Bleeding (Tourniquet album)
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| Studio album by Tourniquet | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Recorded | Mixing Lab A&B | |||
| Studio | Garden Grove, CA | |||
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Power metal Speed metal Thrash metal Christian metal |
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| Length | 46:32 (1990) 73:13 (2001) |
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Intense Records (1990) Pathogenic Records (2001) |
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| Producer | Roger Martinez Tourniquet |
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| 2001 Cover | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    |
| Cross Rhythms |   |
| Matt Morrow | 8.0/10 |
| Powermetal.de (Review of re-release) | (highly favorable) |
Stop the Bleeding is the debut album by the Christian metal band Tourniquet, originally released in 1990 on Intense Records. It was remastered and independently rereleased in 2001 on Pathogenic Records. The rerelease included new artwork, an expanded booklet, and several bonus tracks including demos and live versions featuring Luke Easter on vocals.
Stop the Bleeding was recorded at a studio called Mixing Lab A & B, Garden Grove, California. On this album the band's line up consisted of Ted Kirkpatrick, Guy Ritter and Gary Lenaire. Almost half of the lead guitars were played by session musician Mark Lewis. Lenaire, as seen in the video, played leads on "Ark of Suffering" and the remainder of the record.
An interesting fact on the recording of the album is that drummer Ted Kirkpatrick injured his left foot which is his main kick foot for drumming prior to the recording. The injury occurred during an "Artists vs. Label" softball game when a label executive accidentally stomped Ted's foot while he was rounding second base. This required Ted to record the album under a great deal of pain.
The band faced other obstacles as well such a power failure which forced the producer to mix the songs over again. Tourniquet's vocalist at that time, Guy Ritter, has said in an interview about this situation:
Another funny time was when we were recording Tears of Korah and we completely forgot a verse! We did not even notice it ‘cause, well, the song is like 35 minutes long! We used to have the joke, 'Oh, it’s a Gary [Lenaire] song.' The whole second side of vinyl would be just Gary songs or maybe just one since they were so long! (laughter). Harlot Widow was like 12 minutes, Tears of Korah was like 8 minutes or something. So anyway, we didn’t even notice it was missing it was so long. And remember we were recording on 2- inch tape, so it’s expensive to do, to put an eight-minute song down. So I am in the vocal booth recording my parts when all of a sudden I go to sing the third verse and there is nothing there. I was just stunned! The guitar solo was there and I was supposed to sing another verse. This is back in the days of tape. So what Bill did was he switched over to a couple of tracks and I recorded the vocals to the third verse to the second verse on different tracks. I was going 'How are you going to fix this, how are you going to fix this?' when we were mixing the album. He bounced down the second verse to half-inch tape and then he bounced the same verse again to the third verse to half-inch tape and then the rest of the song to half-inch tape and then got out a razor blade and cut it up and spliced it all back together so we had a complete song.
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