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Tourniquet on guitar because I felt like it was a tool to reach people. By the time we finished Pathogenic I felt like we were more of a metal band, we were Christians in a band. That is the way I felt. It was my personal opinion. We weren’t praying as much as we were before and weren’t doing things like we used to like meeting with a musical pastor. Our focus was just different. Couple that with the music…I really just wasn’t into the thrash vocals as far as the yelling type shouting vocals. I wanted that to be a compliment to the singing. I just felt like there was too much yelling on the POD album and I sat down with Ted and Gary and I told them that if I was going to stay that I wanted to do less yelling and maybe do some more ballads or some more commercial stuff. I remember Ted saying if anything it was going to get heavier.
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The label was not paying us for royalties at all. Almost nothing. Just enough to probably be legal about it. And I really wanted to audit the label. We got paid maybe $ 3000 in royalties the whole time I was in the band. Then we got a letter saying, "We paid you too much so we are going to have to
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654:Guy Ritter
357:Guy Ritter
345:Tourniquet
214:2001 Cover
168:chronology
166:Tourniquet
42:Tourniquet
1172:. August.
1147:Rock Hard
1082:Ultimatum
995:Bloodgood
938:Personnel
491:Bloodgood
324:Rock Hard
156:Producer
49:Released
39: by
1203:at the
727:Lenaire
724:Lenaire
690:Lenaire
664:Lenaire
605:Lenaire
481:Trouble
201:(1993)
192:(1992)
183:(1991)
77:Burbank
1153:1 June
876:Length
822:Length
779:Length
707:
687:Ritter
681:Ritter
661:Ritter
639:Macias
519:Length
513:Lyrics
437:Themes
403:Slayer
328:8.5/10
255:Rating
252:Source
132:(1992)
120:Length
57:Studio
1126:7 May
930:74:14
873:Title
854:73:20
844:10:30
819:Title
800:63:33
776:Title
757:57:23
516:Music
510:Title
361:Dutch
343:band
144:Label
97:Genre
1155:2015
1128:2012
1122:(20)
920:4:42
909:3:58
898:2:01
887:6:10
833:5:27
790:6:10
747:9:58
730:3:38
713:1:31
696:4:28
670:3:55
642:5:47
625:5:12
608:5:15
589:5:30
572:5:40
555:4:25
538:2:04
914:16.
903:15.
892:14.
881:13.
869:No.
838:14.
827:13.
815:No.
784:13.
772:No.
735:12.
718:11.
701:10.
506:No.
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560:3.
543:2.
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397:.
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