| Psycho Surgery | ||||
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| Released | July 1, 1991 | |||
| Studio | Mixing Lab A & B in Garden Grove, California | |||
| Genre | Christian metal, thrash metal, speed metal | |||
| Length | 40:53 (1991) 63:27 (2001) 58:50 (2020) | |||
| Label | Intense Records | |||
| Producer | Bill Metoyer Tourniquet | |||
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Psycho Surgery is the second studio album by the American Christian metal band Tourniquet. It was originally released on Intense Records and Metal Blade Records in 1991. A remastered version was released on Pathogenic Records in 2001 as Psychosurgery and includes revised artwork, an expanded album booklet, and bonus tracks that include live versions of songs featuring then-lead vocalist Luke Easter as well as demos; the title was changed since co-founder and drummer Ted Kirkpatrick always felt that it should have been just one. Retroactive Records released a Collector's Edition remaster on June 26, 2020, retaining the original album title and including an extended booklet as well as different bonus tracks. Considered by critics to be Tourniquet's most balanced of the band's first three albums,[1] Heaven's Metal fanzine ranked Psycho Surgery Christian metal's second-best album of all time (after Vengeance Rising's 1988 debut album Human Sacrifice).[2]