Agreed, but this is what they said on Facebook:
"Originally it was announced on the Kickstarter campaign (thanks again everybody!) under the name The Tourniquet Ark. It turns out many people - Tourniquet fans and others - understandably were a little confused as to what exactly that meant. So it seemed even more confusing to release it under that name, which still has the word Tourniquet in it anyway, plus a logo using elements of the classic Tourniquet logo.
In defense of using the iconic Tourniquet logo, for starters, Luke and Aaron are on the album (and they sound great). Secondly, because of the overall message of the tunes, there will be thousands of people checking it out who have never heard of Tourniquet until now. I'm confident many of them will then continue to check out all of our Tourniquet catalog, as opposed to just knowing this is an album by Ted Kirkpatrick. Third, it's a metal album – not a “stoner” album or a “drumming” album, and since I have written the overall vast majority of our songs since day one of Tourniquet, fans will likely hear it and say “yep, that's Tourniquet – but with a cool unique sound, due in part to so many amazing guest artists."
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