Various Artists "Intense Live Series (USA, KMG Records, KMGD 8657)"

Intense Live Series is a Christian Metal compilation album, released in 1998.

Tracklist:

Intense Live Series Vol. 2

1. Tourniquet  –  Phantom Limb 6:28
2. Tourniquet  –  Medley: Ark Of Suffering/Stereotaxic Atrocities 5:21
3. Tourniquet  –  Studio Fun 0:17
4. Tourniquet  –  Whitewashed Tomb 4:21
5. Tourniquet  –  The Skeezix Dilemma 7:37
6. Tourniquet  –  The Tempter 6:11
7. Tourniquet  –  More Studio Fun 0:22
8. Tourniquet  –  The Messiah 4:52

Intense Live Series Vol. 1

1. Deliverance  –  Studio Fun 0:53
2. Deliverance  –  Surrender 5:00
3. Deliverance  –  No Love 3:20
4. Deliverance  –  More Studio Fun 0:15
5. Deliverance  –  This Present Darkness 2:40
6. Deliverance  –  More Studio Fun 0:57
7. Deliverance  –  Stay Of Execution 4:19
8. Deliverance  –  More Studio Fun 0:23
9. Deliverance  –  The Call 4:57
10. Deliverance  –  More Studio Fun 0:11
11. Deliverance  –  No Time 5:17

Intense Live Series Vol. 4

1. Die Happy  –  Justified 3:58
2. Die Happy  –  Studio Fun 0:07
3. Die Happy  –  Painted Truth 3:58
4. Die Happy  –  Studio Fun 0:08  
5. Die Happy  –  Temple Of Soul 6:00

This album combines 'Deliverance - Intense Live Series Vol. 1' , 'Tourniquet ‎– Intense Live Series Vol. 2' & 'Die Happy ‎– Intense Live Series Vol. 4' in one CD.

Various Artists "Hot Metal Summer III: Hot Licks - Cold Facts (USA, Intense Records, CD01990)"

Hot Metal Summer III: Hot Licks - Cold Facts is a Christian Metal compilation, released in 1990.

Tracklist:

1. Tourniquet   "You Get What You Pray For"
2. Tourniquet   "Ark Of Suffering"
3. Deliverance  "Weapons Of Our Warfare"
4. Deliverance  "This Present Darkness"
5. Sacred Warrior   "Master's Command"
6. Sacred Warrior   "Bound By Chains"
7. Vengeance Rising  "Warfare"
8. Vengeance Rising  "Into The Abyss"
9. Recon   "Take Us Away"
10. Recon    "Behind Enemy Lines"
11. Bloodgood   "Live Medley"
12. scaterd-few  "Kill The Sarx"
13. scaterd-few  "Glass God (No Freedom In Basing)"

Sneak Previews

1. Angelica  (Sneak Preview)
2. Ransom (Sneak Preview)
3. Zaffiro   "Blue Ice"
4. Intense Conversations

Tourniquet "Where Moth And Rust Destroy"

Where Moth and Rust Destroy is an album by Tourniquet. The title is a reference to Matthew 6:19. All guitar solos on this album were performed by former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman except tracks 4 and 7 which were done by Bruce Franklin.

Tourniquet "Microscopic View Of A Telescopic Realm"

Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm is an album by Tourniquet. It was released on Metal Blade Records in 2000. The album marks the return to the band's neo-classical technical thrash style.

Recorded Between July 16 And September 5, 1999 Somewhere In Topanga Canyon, CA, With Additional Recording At Frankie's Hideaway, North Hollywood, CA.

Tourniquet "Crawl To China"

Crawl to China is the 1997 album by the Christian metal band Tourniquet, released on Benson Records. This album took the band's style to a more simplistic rock sound. The lyrics of the song "The Tell-Tale Heart" are based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same title.

The drummer Ted Kirkpatrick said in a later interview that the band themselves consider the album one of their favorites. He also says that afterwards many of the fans have begun to appreciate Crawl to China, though "the Europeans do not really seem to care for the album".

Re-released by Pathogenic Records in 2009 with different cover art, one bonus track and different track order:
01. White Knucklin' the Rosary
02. Going, Going...Gone
03. Proprioception: The Line Knives Syndrome
04. Crawl to China
05. If I Was There
06. Tire Kicking
07. If Pigs Could Fly
08. Stumblefoot
09. Enveloped in Python
10. The Tell-Tale Heart
11. Bats
12. Crank the Knife
13. Claustrospelunker
14. Imaginary Friend
15. America

16. If I Was There (instrumental) - bonus track

Tourniquet "The Collected Works Of Tourniquet"

The Collected Works of Tourniquet is an album by the American Christian metal band Tourniquet. It is a compilation album that features the two new songs "Perfect Night For A Hanging" and "The Hand Trembler." In addition, "The Skeezix Dilemma" is an edited version, using the bulk of the studio recording from Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance segued into the song's live ending from Intense Live Series, Vol. 2.

Tourniquet "Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance"

Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance is the third album by the Christian metal band Tourniquet, released in 1992. It is the last album to feature vocalist Guy Ritter who left the band after the recording of the album. The album was also independently rereleased in 2001 with digital remastering, bonus tracks and new cover art (with "Dissonance" misspelled as "Dissonence" on the tray liner edges). Readers of HM Magazine voted Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance as "Favourite Album of the 1990s". Intense Records released the album to Christian market and Metal Blade Records released it to secular market.In 2010, HM Magazine ranked it #23 on the Top 100 Christian metal albums of all-time list.

Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance was recorded at different studios, one being Mixing Lab A & B. The album was produced by Bill Metoyer.

Musically, the album went for a more aggressive thrash metal direction. The songs are complicated and technical and feature experiments with styles such jazz and blues. The latter can be heard on the song "Phantom Limb". The band's characteristical style of incorporating classical music into its guitar riffs is especially reminiscent on the beginning of the title track. The album introduced more Slayer-esque shouting vocal patterns by Gary Lenaire as well as a darker atmosphere. Guy Ritter sang less on the album than on previous Tourniquet albums. It is often thought that the vocalist Guy Ritter left the band during the recording session. However, in a HM Magazine interview he clarified:

“ It [leaving the band] was actually right after we finished [the recording of the album]. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had any vocals on that album. (laughter) We had just finished the album and it was not too long after it came out. ”

Ritter stated his reasons for leaving the band:

“ I am not being critical of the band or where the direction they went, but for me the band was always more of "this is a ministry and we just happen to play heavy metal." I got into music for that reason. I was originally into pop music, but when I saw what Stryper was doing with music I went and tried to learn that style because it was a tool to reach people. Ted and Gary were always great metal players before I met them. They are just phenomenal musicians. I have never really been good at any instrument. I play a little of every instrument…drums, guitar or keyboard. I am not great at anything. But I learned a style of singing and tried to write the songs that I wrote for Tourniquet on guitar because I felt like it was a tool to reach people. By the time we finished Pathogenic I felt like we were more of a metal band, we were Christians in a band. That is the way I felt. It was my personal opinion. We weren’t praying as much as we were before and weren’t doing things like we used to like meeting with a musical pastor. Our focus was just different. Couple that with the music…I really just wasn’t into the thrash vocals as far as the yelling type shouting vocals. I wanted that to be a compliment to the singing. I just felt like there was too much yelling on the POD album and I sat down with Ted and Gary and I told them that if I was going to stay that I wanted to do less yelling and maybe do some more ballads or some more commercial stuff. I remember Ted saying if anything it was going to get heavier. ”

According to Ritter, there was also some disagreements concerning the label:


“ The label was not paying us for royalties at all. Almost nothing. Just enough to probably be legal about it. And I really wanted to audit the label. We got paid maybe $3000 in royalties the whole time I was in the band. Then we got a letter saying, "We paid you too much so we are going to have to take payments of a thousand or more back!" It was crazy. And I couldn’t get the band to agree with me that we needed to audit the label. So I had some disagreements there. It wasn’t like this big fight or anything. You never would have thought there would be the tension there was after I left the band. ”

The lyrics kept the pattern that began on Psycho Surgery and feature bizarre medical terminology. These terms and syndromes are used as metaphors for spiritual and social issues. The album title refers to color blindness and the title song uses it as a metaphor for lack of wisdom of sight from God. "Gelatinous Tubercles of Purulent Ossification" is about nicotine addiction that causes larynx benediction. The sound samples of the song are produced with Western Electric 5000 voice synthesizer.

The 10-minute song "The Skeezix Dilemma" uses the board Uncle Wiggily's (also a children's book series by Howard Roger Garis) concept as an allegory for child abuse. The song starts out with a minute of circus music (organ played by Bob Beeman) which is followed by a nervous child reading a bit of the game's introduction. The heavy metal song "Exoskeletons" contains a short riff of Black Sabbath's song "Supernaut" at the end. On the Metal Blade Records version of this album, there is a bonus track "The Tempter" (a Trouble cover lifted from Tourniquet's Intense Live Series, Vol. 2)


Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance was re-released and re-mastered in 2001 with new artwork and layout. The bonus tracks include live recordings of the title song and "Bearing Gruesome Cargo" played at the Dutch Flevo Festival in 2000.