With this new album Tourniquet continues along the path they've taken since Microscopic View Of A Telescopic Realm which came out in 2000. You can hear quite long songs (the longest is almost ten minutes) that mix groovy metal with good old thrash while sometimes there are abrupt changes in songs when tempos and riffs are shifted. Yet the aggressiveness that characterized the previous record is not as dominant anymore. Prevalent on Where Moth And Rust Destroy are the wealthy solos. Tourniquet hired in Marty Friedman (formerly of Megadeth) and Bruce Franklin (of Trouble) to take care of this part. Sometimes these solos give the songs a bluesy touch (in the titletrack for example) and enhance in most cases this album. Only at some point in Healing Waters Of The Tigris the solos become too much freaking for a song, I think. They would've been perfect in an instrumental Tourniquet normally presents. Anyway, the production is pretty good and some of the best songs on this record are Drawn And Quartered, Architeuthis and the title track.
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The Phantom Tollbooth 2003Reviewed by Trae CadenheadAfter 13 years of making music, Tourniquet has established themselves as the premier veteran metal band in Christian music. It has been three years since the last release Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm and during that time the band has lost guitarist Aaron Guerra and picked up bassist Steve Andino. The vocals of Luke Easter and the drumming prowess of Ted Kirkpatrick are still present,…Similar sounding releases
2001MortificationThe Silver Cord Is Severed
1998Rebel's MotherThe Dark Unknown
2005Bitter TonguesClovis
1997Unleashed PowerMindfailure
2005Global WarningEnemy Within
2001Brain:FAQBrainstormingMore from Tourniquet
1995Carry The Wounded
1997Crawl to China
1998Live in California
1998Acoustic Archives
1994Vanishing Lessons
1995Pushin' Broom (Video)
