Where Moth and Rust Destroy

Where Moth and Rust Destroy

Track Listings

1. Where Moth and Rust Destroy

2. Restoring the Locust Years

3. Drawn and Quartered

4. Ghost at the Wheel

5. Architeuthis

6. Melting the Golden Calf

7. Convoluted Absolutes

8. Healing Waters of the Tigris

9. In Death We Rise

Tracks:

Where Moth and Rust Destroy
Restoring the Locust Years
Drawn and Quartered
Ghost at the Wheel
Architeuthis
Melting the Golden Calf
Convoluted Absolutes
Healing Waters of the Tigris
In Death We Rise

Customer Reviews:

This sucks.......2007-01-09

The vocals are just as bad on this album as they were on the last album...nay Tourniquet...fire your singer. I would give this CD no stars if I could.

Their Weakest?.......2006-01-21

Seeing someone review this as the "weakest" Tourniquet cd ever forced me to write my own review.

This amazing cd remains one of my favorite metal cds after 2+ years of listening to it. It is without doubt the strongest Tourniquet cd. Period. And I say that as a fan who has followed them since their first release, and owns everything they've put out.

There are no weak tracks here, or anything that makes me want to skip to the next track. Where Moth and Rust Destroy, Archithustrus, and Healing Waters of the Tigris are standout tracks for me, and In Death We Rise is an interesting end to the cd. But it's extremely good from the first to the last track, and brilliant in places.

Most of Tourniquet's other cds are not as listenable. They usually have some great songs, and some not-so-great songs... their first cd was always the one cd of theirs that was consistently strong from begining to end, other cds were more uneven. And as for their middle-career cds like Crawl to China and Vanishing Lessons, to suggest that those are somehow superior to this gem is an incredible joke.

If this is a disappointing cd, then I can only hope Tourniquet goes on to disappoint more often!

I expect better from Tourniquet.......2005-12-27

I own all 7 of the full-length Tourniquet albums, as well as their EP. I have been listening to these guys for about 14 years now (all the way back to 9th grade). I am not a Tourniquet expert; however I am well versed in their music. The band itself has released some phenomenal albums, some good albums, and a few average albums. Unfortunately, I am sad to report that I find "Where Moth and Rust Destroy" to be just an average album. In fact, it's Tourniquet's weakest full-length album, in my opinion. It's not bad music. Far from it. It's just that when you've heard their first three albums and then listen to this, you expect better.

Tourniquet's music can be divided up into 2 time spans. 1) The first 3 albums are the band's first phase (Stop the Bleeding, Psycho Surgery, Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance) which they had their original linup and released some of metal's greatest music. 2) And then phase two (the band's members changed) is all the albums that followed afterwards (Vanishing Lessons, Crawl to China, Microscopic view of a Telescopic Realm, and Where Moth and Rush Destroy). After the lineup change, Tourniquet could never achieve that level of musicianship from the first 3 albums.

The music on this album is weaker than their usual stuff. Not just because the music itself is not as heavy as Tourniquet's early albums, but the technical aspects of the music are also weaker. There's not the variety that we see in the other Tourniquet Albums. There's no hard-pounding music that totally awes you, like we hear in their first 3 albums. Also, when they try a changeup to the tempo or mood of the song, it doesn't work as well as it should. "Drawn and Quartered" is a good example of this. It sounds too forced.

My personal recommendation: "Where Moth and Rush Destroy" is for those Tourniquet fans who need to complete their library. This should be on the bottom of the list for Tourniquet purchases. Tourniquet is usually an above-average band, so I rate it harsher than I normally would. This album cannot even compare to their monumental album, "Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance."

True to Form.......2005-07-17

Moth and Rust was a true to form Tourniquet release. As a long time fan of the band, this CD follows suit with their earlier CD's. That is not to say that it is the same, old music. The opposite is the case. Tourniquet's pattern is to constantly push the envelope of creativity. While classic elements of Tourniquet music can still be seen, there are a myriad of new effects which Tourniquet uses on this CD to continue their pattern of constan innovation. Tourniquet has truly outdone themselves with this release

Thinking Man's Thrash Metal.......2004-08-14

Tourniquet are the absolute best progressive thrash band Marty Friedman does most of the solos on this, and they are killer. Bruce Franklin of Trouble does the rest and they rule as well. An incredible thrash album; worth any true metal fan's time.