''Crawl to China'' is the fifth studio album by the American

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band

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. It was initially released on

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in 1997. This album took the band's music style to a more simplistic rock sound. The song "Claustrospelunker" includes bass guitarist

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of the American Christian metal band

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. The lyrics of the song "The Tell-Tale Heart" are based on

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's 1843 short story of the same name. ''Crawl to China'' was later remastered by Bill Metoyer and released on Pathogenic Records in 2009; an instrumental version of "If I Was There" was included as a bonus track, the track listing was reordered, new album artwork was made by Rex Zachary, and a new booklet layout was designed with new band photos, lyric commentary, and musical notes. A music video for the title track was released in 1997. Ted Kirkpatrick, Tourniquet's drummer, said during an interview in 2003 that the band themselves consider the album one of their favorites, although fans and critics were divisive about it when it was first released. He also said 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".

Track listing

:acoustic version appears on '' Acoustic Archives'' (1998) :appears on ''The Slow Cosmic Voyage to Wisdom'' (2020)

Personnel

Tourniquet * Luke Easter - vocals *Aaron Guerra - guitars, vocals, bass guitar *

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- drums, guitars, bass guitar Guest musician *

- bass guitar on "Claustrospelunker" Additional personnel *Produced by Bill Metoyer and Tourniquet *Mixed by Bill Metoyer *Mastered by Kevin Szymanski *Executive producer: George King *Photography: Robert Ascroft *Mastered at SkyLab Studios in

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*Recorded and mixed at Bill's Place in North Hollywood, California *Art direction and designs: Mike Rapp (1997 version) *Artwork by Rex Zachary (2009 version)

References

External links

Crawl to China at Tourniquet.net
{{Authority control Tourniquet (band) albums 1997 albums Hard rock albums by American artists