Tourniquet Christian rock bands is a Christian neo-classical progressive thrash metal band, formed in 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA. Tourniquet is known for its characteristic style. One of the band's trademarks is the incorporation of classical music into their guitar riffs. They are also known for the medical terminology used in Tourniquet's lyrics.

Tourniquet's Christian rock bands first three albums are cited as classics of thrash metal. In the early 1990s Tourniquet Christian rock bands stood out of other thrash groups with its drum work and two vocalists who mastered their vocal ranges outstandingly well. While Tourniquet are said to be a musically skilled group, for some reason they never became as big as the "Big Four” of thrash metal: Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth. Some critics have speculated that this might possibly be due to their complex style which probably did not reveal to wider audience. However, Tourniquet Christian rock bands has become so well-known that they are probably the most well-known Christian metal band after Stryper.

The current members of Tourniquet Christian rock bands are Ted Kirkpatrick (drums), Luke Easter (vocals), Steve Andino (bass) and Aaron Guerra (guitar, vocals). Kirkpatrick has continuously achieved top rankings when there has been voted the best metal drummers in the world. The band's latest release, Where Moth and Rust Destroy, features special guests Marty Friedman, formerly of Megadeth and Bruce Franklin, formerly of Trouble, on lead guitar. They are outspoken against animal abuse, appearing in many publications such as The Vegetarian Times and United Animal Nations, and Animals Agenda to name a few.

This Christian rock bands is named after a tourniquet which is "a surgical device for arresting hemorrhage by compression of a blood vessel." According to the band, 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.

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