Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance

Wow, am I EVER pleased. It is so hard to find a good Christian metal band, let alone Christian Thrash. Personally, I felt that these days, the best you ever got was Eternal Decision, which no offense to them, isn’t much. The hardest thing to find is original criteria which SO many Christian metal bands don’t have. I feel that that is possibly one of the reasons why it gets such a bad rep in metal. Also because metal is not exactly the perfect “fit” for (conformist) Christians. However, that’s not the case with these guys; Tourniquet has the best form of Christian Thrash. In a lot of ways, which has become really hard to admit, I even find these guys better than Believer, and they happen to be one of my favorite bands of all time. These guys have STRONG thrash metal, let alone, STRONG metal.

Their work with this album is technical, strong, heavy, melodic, and downright original. What these guys have managed to do is to deliver thrash that doesn’t all sound the same. It’s actually very different sounding, even in styles of thrash. Sometimes you get your Slayer-LA-thrash, other times you can get that kind of Megadeth sound. Heck, you even get a little Groove Metal every so often on this one. I feel that though, the strongest, you can find a lot of a Believer influence in the music, particularly in the vocals, and talent of course.

Personally, I cannot really find anything wrong with this album, other than sometimes the titles/lyrics. When you read the lyrics, it seems more than obviously that they just used a thesaurus half the time, to maybe make themselves sound smarter. Not saying they’re dumb, or anything, not my judge, but you can definitely tell that a lot of those big words were really forced.

Anyways, getting to the bottomline, this is overall an amazing album, and definitely an amazing band. Vocals are great, Riffs are great, bass is fine, drums are fine. The production is cure crisp. Even non Christian people would love this, be it Satanists, Athiests, you name it. This almost deserves the rank of a Classic (Christian) Thrash metal album.