Translated from the original French
Here are some clever little devils who would do well to be properly insured, because their first album may well do BIG damage!! Watch out for broken glass, because these head-breakers are perfectly capable of making themselves guilty of the offence of speeding!! In such a case, no panic!! The victim of the shot caused by the flashing light of the duty tourniquet-twisters can then draw them up, without remorse, an accident report... an amiable one!!! The former vocalist of HOLY DANGER has come a devil of a long way, since his quintet of electric nerves (two of them musicians in vacancy) is a pure liqueur of speed-thrash technicity (it is as juicy as a Gamara to the power of Voivod!!). With their armoured fuselage made of chainsawing decibels, TOURNIQUET may well leave you a few acceleration marks. Their imprints, as much classical (Bach and Chopin) as super heavy-thrash-speedoid, recall a concert of connecting rods, which the 5-octave horn (it is breathtaking!!!) of the mad screamer makes extraordinarily resonant. The incisive lyrics ("Swarming Spirits", "Somnambulism", "Whitewashed Tomb", "The Test For Leprosy",...) spread through the neurones like trails of petrol in flames, while the drummer's blast furnaces fuel them heavily (worth noting some remarkable percussion solos, notably in "Tears Of Korah").
With their splint of sixty-dizard blues, they deliver to your door exquisite impressions of deep musicological qualities, while their bumpers of special effects in fusion cut into your skull a sunroof with a view of Heaven. On top of that, their road sign, represented by their album title ("Stop The Bleeding"), is of the most ricocheting kind, as is their chromic logo.
So, after so much damage in consciences, which sentence to opt for? It is decreed... The tireless ones of the vibratory riff are doomed to tow the hard-eared ones in perpetuity... all the way to Paradise...!!!
Other coverage for this album
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