Band:	Tourniquet
Album:	Where Moth And Rust Destroy
Style:	Thrash metal
Release date:	2003
Guest review by:	Music4TheSpirit

01. Where Moth And Rust Destroy
02. Restoring The Locust Years
03. Drawn And Quartered
04. A Ghost At The Wheel
05. Architeuthis
06. Melting The Golden Calf
07. Convoluted Absolutes
08. Healing Waters Of The Tigris
09. In Death We Rise

Let's start by trying to define the style of this album, their latest so far. In this album they play a melodic thrash with progressive influences accompanied by versatile vocals that varied between (not so) low thrash-ish and (not so) high hardcore-ish vocals. Excepting the last song of which I will talk later.

The album counts with an excellent work on the drums by Ted Kirkpatrick, that no only show his talent on drums, but that also plays the rhythm guitars, combining them in a complementary way. The album is full of very good solos by Marty Friedman and a couple by Bruce Franklin (Trouble). The guitars on this album (rhythm and lead) are something to check out.

The highlight songs are "Drawn And Quartered", "Architeuthis", "Convoluted Absolutes" and "Healing Waters Of The Tigris", the rest of the songs are nice, but lack variation or emotion. Don't get me wrong they're not bad songs, but just not as good as the highlights.

"Drawn And Quartered" starts with a marching drum accompanied by the guitar, then a slow part and the first chorus follow, after some samples and nice effects the music becomes faster, then an acoustic moment works as a link for slower music and finally an exciting riff joined momentarily by the violin to finish the song

"Architeuthis" is about giant squids that once believed to be mythical creatures, something that you wouldn't expect for a christian band, I think it's the catchiest song on the album. "Convoluted Absolutes", straight song criticizing the values of modern life and how people have become submissive against the transgression of their own values.

"Healing Waters Of The Tigris" has one of the most interesting passages of the album, about the middle of the song, the most intense moment exploits with hard riffs and fast singing followed by a fluid solo. After this some little bells sounds and a calm yet full of feeling instrumental jam continues almost until the end of the song when the chorus is repeated to end up the song.

Closing the album we find "In Death We Rise" another highlight but as I said I left this for the end, it's a (drone) doom piece with some violins on it, and with some low and slow vocals. This fits just well to close the album, after all the intensity of the album, such a change is a good idea.