Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm explained

Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Tourniquet
Cover:	Mvoatr.JPG
Released:	2000
Recorded:	July 16, 1999–September 5, 1999
Studio:	Topanga, California Frankie's Hideaway in North Hollywood, California
Genre:	Christian metal, thrash metal, neoclassical metal, progressive metal
Length:	69:52
Label:	Metal Blade Records
Producer:	Bill Metoyer Tourniquet
Prev Title:	Acoustic Archives
Prev Year:	1998
Next Title:	Where Moth and Rust Destroy
Next Year:	2003

Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm is the sixth studio album by the American Christian metal band Tourniquet. It was released on Metal Blade Records in 2000. The title track includes Steve Rowe of the Australian Christian metal band Mortification as a guest vocalist and the song "The Skeezix Dilemma Part II (The Improbable Testimony of the Pipsisewah)" is a sequel to "The Skeezix Dilemma" from Tourniquet's 1992 album Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance. This album marks the return to the band's neo-classical technical thrash style of metal.

Track listing

appears on The Epic Tracks (2019)

Personnel

Tourniquet

• Ted Kirkpatrick – drums, bass, guitar harmony lead ("Erratic Palpitations of the Human Spirit")
• Aaron Guerra – all other rhythm and lead guitars, bass, backing vocals
• Luke Easter – lead vocals

Guest musicians

• Cameron Stone – cello ("The Tomb of Gilgamesh" and "The Skeezix Dilemma Part II (The Improbable Testimony of the Pipsisewah)")
• Jennifer Hall – flute ("Besprinkled in Scarlet Horror" and "Immunity Vector")
• Steve Rowe of Mortification – guest vocals ("Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm")

Additional personnel

• Engineered by Bill Metoyer
• Produced by Bill Metoyer and Tourniquet
• Photography: Jim Muth
• Cover art and design: Brian J. Ames
• Mixed at Frankie's Hideaway in North Hollywood, California
• Mastered by Tom Baker at Precision Mastering in Hollywood, California

External links

• Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm at Tourniquet.net