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The Slow Cosmic Voyage to Wisdom
Compilation album by
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2020
GenreChristian metal, thrash metal, doom metal
Length1:17:00
LabelPathogenic Records
Tourniquet chronology
The Epic Tracks
(2019)
The Slow Cosmic Voyage to Wisdom
(2020)

The Slow Cosmic Voyage to Wisdom is the fourth compilation album and the last album by the American Christian metal band Tourniquet. It was released on Pathogenic Records in 2020.[1] The album features ten songs. Among Tourniquet tracks the album also includes original and cover songs from Ted Kirkpatrick's solo career. The songs are the slowest and doomiest tracks by Tourniquet and Kirkpatrick.[2]

The album includes two Black Sabbath covers and a cover of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar. The formers feature Eric Wagner and Trevor McNevan, respectively, and the latter features Tim "Ripper" Owens, on vocals. Gethsemane was initially released as Kirkpatrick's solo single earlier in the same year.[3] This compilation is its first release in a physical media.

The version of In Death We Rise from Where Moth and Rust Destroy is a remixed version with louder vocals than in the original.

The album has one new song: Mission to MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1. It is an over 25-minute instrumental drone metal track[4] and became the last full track Tourniquet ever recorded and released before Kirkpatrick's death and the band's end.

Track listing

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No.TitleOriginal release (year)Length
1."Electric Funeral"The Doom in Us All: A Tribute to Black Sabbath (2016)5:08
2."Memento Mori"Gazing at Medusa (2018)4:24
3."Lions"Ode to a Roadkill (2010)6:07
4."Going, Going... Gone"Crawl to China (1997)6:04
5."Gethsemane" 5:48
6."No Soul"Onward to Freedom (2014)4:43
7."In Death We Rise (vocals up version)"Where Moth and Rust Destroy (2003)7:05
8."Officium Defunctorum"Psycho Surgery (1991)6:23
9."Lord of This World"The Doom in Us All: A Tribute to Black Sabbath (2016)5:48
10."Mission to MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1" 25:30
Total length:1:17:00

Personnel

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  • Mastered by Rob Colwell
  • Cover art by Derek Sheyer
  • Produced by Ted Kirkpatrick

References

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  1. ^ "Tourniquet julkaisi kokoelmalevyn "The Slow Cosmic Voyage To Wisdom"". Metalliluola (in Finnish). November 1, 2020. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
  2. ^ Lang, Stefan (February 17, 2024). "TOURNIQUET: Ein Überblick über das Gesamtwerk". POWERMETAL.de (in German). Retrieved August 5, 2024.
  3. ^ ""Gethsemane" - New Single By TED KIRKPATRICK, TIM RIPPER OWENS, BRUNO SA Streaming Now". bravewords.com. June 29, 2020. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
  4. ^ Vanlommel, Dimitri (October 28, 2020). "Veteran metallers Tourniquet release The Slow Cosmic Voyage To Wisdom". Frontview Magazine. Retrieved August 5, 2024.