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TOURNIQUET To Take Part In Online Chat

Christian thrash metallers TOURNIQUET will take part in an online chat on Sunday, January 21 at 8:00 p.m. CST at this location. The chat will be open to anyone and there is no registration required. As previously reported, TOURNIQUET has been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Sonshine Festival,...

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TOURNIQUET Confirmed For SONSHINE FESTIVAL

Christian thrash metallers TOURNIQUET have been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Sonshine Festival, set to take place July 12-14 in Willmar, Minnesota. For more information, visit www.sonshinefestival.com. TOURNIQUET released a live DVD in August, entitled "Till Sverige Med Kärlek" (To Sweden W...

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Former TOURNIQUET Members Recruit New Drummer

Former TOURNIQUET members Victor Macias (bass),Erik Mendez (guitar),and Gary Lenaire (guitar) have announced the addition of drummer Al Velasquez (DW Drums) to their brand new project 2050. The group, which cites its influences as BLACK SABBATH, SLAYER, MAGMA and MOTÖRHEAD, has a MySpace page at t...

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The Reckoning

Traditionally, Christian rock has been maligned as a diet-soda take on the real thing, a somewhat (ahem) soulless Xerox designed to give the religious market an almost-as-good alternative to what the secular kids are listening to. There have been obvious exceptions — BELIEVER and TOURNIQUET immediat...

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TOURNIQUET Confirmed For Germany's LEGENDS OF ROCK Festival

TOURNIQUET, BRIDE and GUARDIAN have been confirmed for the Legends of Rock festival, set to take place Saturday, February 24, 2007 at Haus Ennepetal in Ennepetal. Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: TOURNIQUET BRIDE GUARDIAN THE ELECTRICS SPLIT LEVEL WHY? ...

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Former TOURNIQUET Members Rejoin Forces In 2050

Former TOURNIQUET members Victor Macias (bass),Erik Mendez (guitar),and Gary Lenaire (guitar) are back together and working on new music with their brand new project 2050. The group, which cites its influences as BLACK SABBATH, SLAYER, MAGMA and MOTÖRHEAD, has launched its MySpace page at this loc...

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TOURNIQUET Schedule Live Show, Drum Clinic

Christian thrash metallers TOURNIQUET have scheduled a live performance on Friday, May 5 at the Columbia Theatre in Longview, Washington (40 minutes north of Portland). Drummer Ted Kirkpatrick will also take part in a drum clinic on Saturday, May 6 at 1:00 p.m. at a venue to be announced. As previou...

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TOURNIQUET To Release Live DVD This Spring

Christian thrash metallers TOURNIQUET will release a live DVD, "Live from Linkoping, Sweden - Bobfest 2005", this spring. "This is by far the best quality live TOURNIQUET footage we have ever had — both in terms of the video (four cameras) and audio," the band write in an update. "The crowd was awes...

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Reborn

Cleaning up the office at the end of the year, making room for the onslaught of 2006 releases, this one popped up and seemed like an irresistible piñata for critical derision. STRYPER, those God-rockin' bumblebees with the lame ballads and hair from here to the Pearly Gates? Well, pass me some of th...

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Hands Without Shadows

A solo album from the guy from NITRO — you know, the one with the goofy four-necked guitar and hair up to here? Diehard shred guitar enthusiasts know that Batio is a lot more than that, and has been dazzling with his over-the-top fretboard skills in instructional videos aimed at the Guitar Institute...

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TOURNIQUET: Live Video Posted Online

Christian thrash metallers TOURNIQUET have uploaded a video of their live performance of the track "Where Moth and Rust Destroy", filmed this past July in Minnesota at the Sonshine Fest '05. Check it out at this location. Late last year, TOURNIQUET were rejoined by longtime friend, guitarist Aaron G...

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FOZZY Frontman To Co-Emcee BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN Christian Metal Festival

BTM Productions has announced a change of dates and location for the upcoming Beyond the Mountain Festival. The event will now take place on November 4-5, 2005, at the Arcada Theater, in St. Charles, IL. The new venue is an exuberant movie house located in downtown St. Charles, about 30 miles outsid...

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TOURNIQUET To Donate Merchandise Proceeds To Animal Rescue Effort

Christian thrash metallers TOURNIQUET have sent the following message to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "In the catastrophic wake of Hurricane Katrina, the loss and suffering on many levels is tragic. In the past, we in TOURNIQUET — with your help — have donated money to human causes — like the Red Cross for the...

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California's BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN Festival Cancelled

The Beyond the Mountain festival, which was slated to take place on August 27-28 at the Roosevelt Bowl at Perris Hills Park in San Bernadino, California, has been cancelled "due to financial restraints," according to a posting on the web site of Columbus, Ohio's JACOBS DREAM (one of the scheduled pe...

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JACOBS DREAM Confirmed For California's BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN Festival

Columbus, Ohio's JACOBS DREAM have been confirmed for the Beyond the Mountain festival, set to take place on August 27-28 at the Roosevelt Bowl at Perris Hills Park in San Bernadino, California. The band is scheduled to perform on Sunday, August 28. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Sat...