Crawl to China

Crawl to China
Studio album by Tourniquet
Released	1997
Genre	Christian metal, Christian rock
Length	1:08:00
Label	Benson Records
Producer	Bill Metoyer
Tourniquet chronology
The Collected Works of Tourniquet (1996) Crawl to China (1997) Acoustic Archives (1998)

Crawl to China is the 1997 album by the Christian metal band Tourniquet, released on Benson Records. This album took the band's style to a more simplistic rock sound and, as a result, Crawl to China was critically panned and disappointed many of the band's metal fans. The lyrics of the song "The Tell-Tale Heart" are based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same title. David Larkin of Jesusfreak Hideout called Crawl to China "an average effort that could have been better", "Neither a hit nor a miss" and "an underrated album in the band's collection".^[1]

The drummer Ted Kirkpatrick said in a later interview that the band themselves consider the album one of their favorites. He also says that afterwards many of the fans have begun to appreciate Crawl to China, though "the Europeans do not really seem to care for the album".^[2]

Track listing

1. "Claustrospelunker" 4:19
2. "Crawl To China" 4:28
3. "Enveloped In Python" 4:00
4. "White Knucklin' The Rosary" 4:11
5. "If I Was There" 5:56
6. "The Tell-Tale Heart" 5:15
7. "Bats" 3:56
8. "Proprioception: The Line Knives Syndrome" 5:00
9. "Tire Kicking" 3:40
10. "If Pigs Could Fly" 4:38
11. "Crank The Knife" 4:15
12. "Stumblefoot" 3:40
13. "Imaginary Friend" 3:59
14. "Going, Going...Gone" 6:04
15. "America" 4:39

Credits

Band

• Luke Easter - vocals
• Aaron Guerra - guitars, vocals, bass guitar
• Ted Kirkpatrick - drums, guitars, bass guitar

Guest musician

• Tim Gaines - bass guitar on "Claustrospelunker"

References

1. ^ Tourniquet - Crawl to China. Jesusfreak Hideout.
2. ^ Ollila, Mape (2003). "Tourniquet Interview" (in Finnish). Imperiumi. http://imperiumi.net/int_2.php?id=141. Retrieved 2007-09-20. 

External links

• Crawl to China at Tourniquet.net