Guy Ritter

Ritter started his musical career with the band Holy Danger.{{cite web |url= http://www.hmmagazine.com/exclusive/heavens_metal_exclusive_guy_ritter_interview200708/index.php |title= Heaven's Metal Exclusive: Guy Ritter Interview |accessdate=September 20, 2007 |author= Walker, Todd |date= April 10, 2007 |work= HM Magazine |publisher= |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070917184352/http://www.hmmagazine.com/exclusive/heavens_metal_exclusive_guy_ritter_interview200708/index.php |archivedate=September 17, 2007 |quote= }} At the time of Holy Danger's beginning in 1985, Ritter was 19. The band disbanded in 1987. In 1989, Ritter had moved to Los Angeles to find musicians to play with. He found Gary Lenaire and Ted Kirkpatrick, and the three founded Tourniquet. The band recorded three albums before Ritter's departure in 1993, after the recording of Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance{{cite web|url=http://www.bbillett.freeserve.co.uk/Guyquestions/Guyquestions.htm|title=Guy Ritter – Questions|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307195539/http://www.bbillett.freeserve.co.uk/Guyquestions/Guyquestions.htm|archivedate=March 7, 2009|accessdate=November 24, 2016}} There was much speculation on why Ritter departed, such as "This was Guy Ritter's last album with the band. His reasons for leaving were he was getting tired of the thrash vocals and medical allegory" or "Apparently Guy Ritter was unhappy with this new heavier direction the band had taken and decided to part ways in the middle of the recording."

In 1996, Ritter and former bandmate Gary Lenaire formed a new band called Echo Hollow.{{cite magazine|title= Interview: Guy Ritter and Gary Lenaire |magazine= Metal Mission Magazine |date= September 1999 |accessdate= November 24, 2016 |url= http://www.guyritter.com/echohollow/interviews/metalmissionint.html}} They formed the band with Matt Rosenblum, a drummer Gary knew, and Matthew Fallentine, Ritter's now-brother-in-law. The band later on added Rafik Oganyan in June 2001.{{cite web|url=http://echohollow.com/abouttheguys/rafik/rafik.html|title=Rafik Oganyan|publisher=Echo Hollow|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050205014508/http://echohollow.com/abouttheguys/rafik/rafik.html|archivedate=February 5, 2005|accessdate=November 24, 2016}} The band disbanded in 2004. In 2017, Ritter performed guest vocals on the song "Stop the Bleeding" on Lenaire's solo album, No Time Now.{{cite web|url=https://www.garylenaire.com/no-time-now|title=Gary Lenaire – No Time Now|website=Gary Lenaire|accessdate=August 24, 2020}} In 2020, it was announced that Ritter would be performing vocals, alongside Luke Easter, who replaced Ritter in Tourniquet, and Erik Mendez (ex-Tourniquet, 2050) playing guitar on the album, with David Husvik (Extol, Azusa) on drums, recording on Lenaire's sophomore solo album.{{cite web|url=https://www.themetalonslaught.com/2020/08/24/bringing-the-band-back-together/|title=Bringing the Band Back Together|website=The Metal Onslaught Magazine|first=Mason|last=Beard|date=August 24, 2020|accessdate=August 24, 2020}} In 2021, the band was announced as FLOOD, consisting of Ritter, Lenaire, Mendez, Husvik, and Anna Sentina.{{cite web|url=https://www.floodofficial.com/about|title=FLOOD – About|accessdate=October 23, 2021|archive-date=October 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024001120/https://www.floodofficial.com/about|url-status=dead}}

Ritter is married to Christin Ritter, Matthew Fallentine's sister. They have two children. Ritter is an outspoken Christian.{{cite book|title=Religious Innovation in a Global Age: Essays on the Construction of Spirituality|first=George N.|last=Lundskow|page=126}} Ritter worked on editing systems for Fox Sports. He enjoys exercise, including hiking and cycling.{{cite web|url=http://echohollow.com:80/abouttheguys/guy/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010426150619/http://echohollow.com/abouttheguys/guy/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 26, 2001|title=Guy Ritter|website=Echo Hollow|accessdate=October 16, 2018}}

Current

• Flood – vocals (2020–present)

Former

• Holy Danger – vocals, rhythm guitar (1985–1987)
• Tourniquet – vocals (1989–1993)
• Echo Hollow – vocals (1996–2004)

Tourniquet

• Stop the Bleeding (1990)
• Psycho Surgery (1991) (2001 re-release titled Psychosurgery)
• Ark of Suffering (1991) – music video
• Video Biopsy (1992) – VHS
• Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance (1992)

Echo Hollow

• Diet of Worms (1998)
• Superficial Intelligence (2004)

Holy Danger

• One Way (1986)
• Demo (1986)

Other appearances

• Gary Lenaire – No Time Now (2017) (song "Stop the Bleeding")

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