Heaviest Tourniquet Song

It's gotta be either Perfect Night For Hanging or The Hand Trembler. Not sure which I would say is heavier though, they're both really heavy.

Luke Easter wrote:
"Trivializing the Momentous, Complicating the Obvious"

Was this only on The Epic Tracks? I'm listening for the first time right now.

No. It was originally released on Acoustic Archives.

Perfect Night for that opening riff.

Fed by Ravens, Eaten by Vultures from Antiseptic Bloodbath is heavy too, especially close to the end.

Sola Christus from Vanishing Lessons is pretty heavy too.

And one that is a "different kind of" heavy is Going Going Gone from Crawl to China. It might not be a "heavy metal heavy" song but it's a stoner groove kind of a heavy song and has heavy riffs throughout the song. One of my all time favorites from Tourniquet.

In my opinion, Going Going Gone shares a tiny bit of the same DNA with Trivializing the Momentous in that how they both have extremely beautiful harmonized parts at the end. In Trivializing there's the "he came to set the prisoner free" part that is among my all time favorite Luke Easter moments. He sings the line, then doubles the line with a harmony, then triples the line with another harmony and that's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard, especially when you focus on listening to the harmonies. In Going Going Gone there's the "American symbol of freedom" part near the end but this time it's the guitar that goes on to do a really beautiful and sad harmony after the vocals.

Sometimes I just put those songs on only to immediately skip to those parts and listen to them over and over again. Both of those parts speak to me the exact same way.

For me Going Going Gone also has something similar with Perfect Night and The Hand Trembler in the heavy guitar tone. While they're not the same, they are all different sounding songs from all that Tourniquet had previously done.


If the tribute band Stop the Bleeding would ever choose to play a song that was done after Gary left I'd love them to play Going Going Gone. I've seen how much into Gary is playing the heavy groove riffs (Phantom Limb and Vanishing Lessons etc) so I'm sure he'd love to play that one too. Maybe have a bit of that in a medley or something.

The Crushing Weight of Eternity…the heaviest topic there is.

Roebuckryan wrote:The Crushing Weight of Eternity…the heaviest topic there is.

Interesting choice, I like it.

Roebuckryan wrote:The Crushing Weight of Eternity…the heaviest topic there is.

One Foot In Forever is heavy too!

theloudfarter wrote:

Roebuckryan wrote:The Crushing Weight of Eternity…the heaviest topic there is.

One Foot In Forever is heavy too!

I think that overall, Gazing At Medusa is their heaviest album.

If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom then I would like to add The Slave Ring. It has Mattie Montgomery on vocals.

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom then I would like to add The Slave Ring. It has Mattie Montgomery on vocals.

Anybody want to tell him?



Paging Mr. Luke Easter...

MagnusPrime wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom then I would like to add The Slave Ring. It has Mattie Montgomery on vocals.

Anybody want to tell him?



Paging Mr. Luke Easter...

I know it isn't technically a Tourniquet album. That's why I said "If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom"

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

MagnusPrime wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom then I would like to add The Slave Ring. It has Mattie Montgomery on vocals.

Anybody want to tell him?



Paging Mr. Luke Easter...

I know it isn't technically a Tourniquet album. That's why I said "If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom"

Somehow I completely missed this album.  I remember the title, but I guess I forgot to ever listen to it.  Same thing with Slow Cosmic Voyage to Wisdom.

Skeezix Dilemma (1)

 The downtuned song, the mix and production, the guitar harmonies and 
the vocals of Gary, Victor and Eric here     are what heavy means to me.

strangerhoncho wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

MagnusPrime wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom then I would like to add The Slave Ring. It has Mattie Montgomery on vocals.

Anybody want to tell him?



Paging Mr. Luke Easter...

I know it isn't technically a Tourniquet album. That's why I said "If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom"

Somehow I completely missed this album.  I remember the title, but I guess I forgot to ever listen to it.  Same thing with Slow Cosmic Voyage to Wisdom.

The Slow Cosmic Voyage to Wisdom is a compilation I believe. Onward to Freedom is really good though.

There’s no “technically” about it. Onward… is not, never was, and never will be a Tourniquet album. It is a Ted solo record, that he later retconned in an attempt to pass it off as a Tourniquet album.


So no.

strangerhoncho wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

MagnusPrime wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom then I would like to add The Slave Ring. It has Mattie Montgomery on vocals.

Anybody want to tell him?



Paging Mr. Luke Easter...

I know it isn't technically a Tourniquet album. That's why I said "If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom"

Somehow I completely missed this album.  I remember the title, but I guess I forgot to ever listen to it.  Same thing with Slow Cosmic Voyage to Wisdom.

Which reminds me that Mission to MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1 is probably Tourniquet's heaviest song

The Tempter (the Trouble cover from the Intense Live EP) is also very heavy!

Luke Easter wrote:There’s no “technically” about it. Onward… is not, never was, and never will be a Tourniquet album. It is a Ted solo record, that he later retconned in an attempt to pass it off as a Tourniquet album.


So no.

Yeah. Well, if it was heaviest Ted Kirkpatrick songs I would say The Slave Ring. I don't think it's the heaviest, but would you count Stereotaxic Atrocities as a Tourniquet song?

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

Luke Easter wrote:There’s no “technically” about it. Onward… is not, never was, and never will be a Tourniquet album. It is a Ted solo record, that he later retconned in an attempt to pass it off as a Tourniquet album.


So no.

Yeah. Well, if it was heaviest Ted Kirkpatrick songs I would say The Slave Ring. I don't think it's the heaviest, but would you count Stereotaxic Atrocities as a Tourniquet song?

I'd certainly count the one on Psycho Surgery as a TQT song

StevenCressler wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

Luke Easter wrote:There’s no “technically” about it. Onward… is not, never was, and never will be a Tourniquet album. It is a Ted solo record, that he later retconned in an attempt to pass it off as a Tourniquet album.


So no.

Yeah. Well, if it was heaviest Ted Kirkpatrick songs I would say The Slave Ring. I don't think it's the heaviest, but would you count Stereotaxic Atrocities as a Tourniquet song?

I'd certainly count the one on Psycho Surgery as a TQT song

Well yeah. I mean the one on Onward. It has Luke and Marty.

Airola wrote:

strangerhoncho wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

MagnusPrime wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom then I would like to add The Slave Ring. It has Mattie Montgomery on vocals.

Anybody want to tell him?



Paging Mr. Luke Easter...

I know it isn't technically a Tourniquet album. That's why I said "If we are ok with counting Onward To Freedom"

Somehow I completely missed this album.  I remember the title, but I guess I forgot to ever listen to it.  Same thing with Slow Cosmic Voyage to Wisdom.

Which reminds me that Mission to MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1 is probably Tourniquet's heaviest song

That “song” was a massive disappointment for me lol. I was expecting some sort of epic like Mirror of Souls when I saw the length, and instead it’s literally just noise

I would say either Perfect Night for a Hanging or Trivializing the Momentous.

Ted’s Sabbath tribute sounds huge and HEAVY!

It’s not Tourniquet… but it may as well be because Ted essentially became Tourniquet on the last few albums. And his combo of detuned guitars with the orange amps became his trademark sound.

His love of doom and “stoner” metal was obvious.