Bio:
Tourniquet was an American Christian metal band that formed in Los Angeles in 1990. The band was founded by Ted Kirkpatrick, Guy Ritter, and Gary Lenaire. The band primarily performs a mixture of thrash, progressive, and neoclassical metal, and is influenced by additional, non-rock forms of music such as classical and world music.
The band is named for the 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.”
Ted Kirkpatrick of the Christian metal band TOURNIQUET has died after a brief battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF),a rare terminal lung disease for which there is no cure. He was 62 years old. Rest in Peace!
If you would like to help with Ted’s expensive medical bills, a Go Fund me account has been set up.
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Selected Discography:
Stop the Bleeding – 1990
Psycho Surgery – 1991
Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance – 1992
Vanishing Lessons – 1994
Crawl to China – 1997
Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm – 2000
Where Moth and Rust Destroy – 2003
Antiseptic Bloodbath – 2012
Onward to Freedom – 2014
Gazing at Medusa – 2018