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''Stop the Bleeding'' is the debut album by the Christian metal band Tourniquet, originally released in 1990 on Intense Records. It was remastered and independently rereleased in 2001 on Pathogenic Records. The rerelease included new artwork, an expanded booklet, and several bonus tracks including demos and live versions featuring Luke Easter on vocals. == Recording history == ''Stop the Bleeding'' was recorded at a studio called Mixing Lab A & B, Garden Grove, California. On this album the band's line up consisted of Ted Kirkpatrick, Guy Ritter and Gary Lenaire. Almost half of the lead guitars were played by session musician Mark Lewis. Lenaire, as seen in the video, played leads on Ark of Suffering and the remainder of the record. An interesting fact on the recording of the album is that drummer Ted Kirkpatrick injured his left foot which is his main kick foot for drumming prior to the recording. The injury occurred during an "Artists vs. Label" softball game when a label executive accidentally stomped Ted's foot while he was rounding second base. This required Ted to record the album under a great deal of pain.〔Stop the Bleeding 2001 re-issue booklet's liner notes〕 The band faced other obstacles as well such a power failure which forced the producer to mix the songs over again.〔 Tourniquet's vocalist at that time, Guy Ritter, has said in an interview about this situation: On the original booklet, the production credits were given to Roger Martinez, vocalist of the fellow California based Christian thrash metal group Vengeance Rising. However, the album was actually produced by Bill Metoyer of Metal Blade Records. Ritter has said about this: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stop the Bleeding (Tourniquet album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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