Stop the Bleeding is the debut studio album by the American Christian metal band Tourniquet.

The remasters include updated artwork, expanded album booklets, and bonus tracks.

The band recorded Stop the Bleeding at Mixing Lab A & B studio in Garden Grove, California.

The band's line-up consisted of Ted Kirkpatrick, Guy Ritter, and Gary Lenaire.

Session musician Mark Lewis played nearly half of the album's lead guitar solos.

Prior to the album's recording, during an "Artists vs. Label" softball game, a label executive accidentally ran over drummer Ted Kirkpatrick's foot (his main kick foot) while rounding second base, requiring Kirkpatrick to record the album under a great deal of pain.

[1] The band faced other recording obstacles as well, such a power failure that forced the producer to mix the songs over again.

[2]In the original booklet, the band gave co-production credits to Roger Martinez, vocalist of fellow California-based Christian thrash metal group Vengeance Rising.

I don’t think he would even change it, and Roger would say, “Yeah, sounds good, bro.” (laughter) That, to us, was one of our favorite things, and we did that continually on the next two albums.

[2] Guy Ritter's vocals on the album, which he said were inspired by glam metal vocalists, shift between low-baritone and high-falsetto vocals, although they were performed higher on the demo versions: In some of the early demos of those songs there were lots more high parts.

So many people said, “Oh, come on, you probably listened to a lot of King Diamond.” Finally, I was at Ted’s apartment, and he pulled out a CD, and he said, “Okay.

[2]The album cover art features a snake restrained by chains, representing the power good has over evil and how that relates to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which was the ultimate victory over Satan.

[1] The song "You Get What You Pray For" was the band's first single and stayed on top of the CCM metal charts for 21 weeks.