I personnaly prefer No More Color than Mental Vortex. Both are awesome, though. Grin is great, less agressive and more progressive.

Bloody ay! I am UTI of beer and whiskey and i am listening to Coroner right fuckin' now, the first two albums. I love the fact that i fel as i am the only fuckin' thrasher who knows about their legendaty existence, atleast here in Estonia. Masked Jackal............Kilbeggan Irish Whiskeyyyy and Coroner - OLD fuckin' SKOOL!!!!!!

One of my favorite thrash metal bands of all time. I have only heard two albums however, but both are absolutely amazing. I own R.I.P. and have heard Punishment for Decadence. Amazingly talented and mindblowing, I could probably listen to these guys all day. It's a shame we aren't able to hear any new material from this intelligent band..

Yeaaaaaaah!! coroner fucking rules , the first album i listened was metal vortex , not long ago and i say what the hell , i can't believe all the time in ignorance , amazing they are fast , they are technical, they got the rhytm , , then i downloaded , the concert in the east berlin , the no more color tour 1990 , i can't believe it they are amazing at live too, im listening to the first almbum R.I.P fingers up to the begings , i hope to find a concert on the web , that includes songs from the mental vortex albums , long time since find a band that surprises me so much , coroner fucking rules MERCILESS!!

Awesome band, technical, dark and often impressive! This is the kind of music to listen to at night!

Oh man. Where to start. I'll try to make it as short as possible.

Arguably my favorite band of ALL TIME...yes I said ALL TIME. I first discovered them watching MTV's Headbangers Ball - "Masked Jackal". Picked up "Punishment for Decadence" and fell in love with it. The musicianship impeccable, the lyrics dark and tantilizing and the tone of album extremely fast yet organized. Listened to it over and over.

I saw them live in '88 opening up for Kreator & actually met Ron Royce and had a beer with him during the show (I was 16 years old and never had a beer muchless some foreign swedish ale I've never heard of)! He told me his favorite band was Rush (Mine too) and that the name of the new album is "No Caller"... Kreator was sooo loud I couldn't tell he was saying "No More Color"

I anticipated every new release with great hope and expectation and they delivered every time .... No More Color, Mental Vortex and the pinnacle of my progressive/tech/thrash endeavor -

GRIN

My favorite cd EVER!!!

It is a culmination of all of Coroner's hard work and explorative minds from their previous albums. A perfect blend of progressive metal and technical thrash.

I wish there were a reunion!!!

I gave some recommendation in a forum... Coroner among them and someone just said it was "meh" because it sounded like late Overkill. I'm hearing overkill right now but fail to see anything similar... Now there are two obtions:

- I'm deaf
- The dude is just wrong.

Pfff.. Coroner are the shit when it comes to thrash!, I can't believe some metalhead can't like this band.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 17.07.2009 at 01:40

I gave some recommendation in a forum... Coroner among them and someone just said it was "meh" because it sounded like late Overkill. I'm hearing overkill right now but fail to see anything similar... Now there are two obtions:

- I'm deaf
- The dude is just wrong.

Pfff.. Coroner are the shit when it comes to thrash!, I can't believe some metalhead can't like this band.

late Overkill? ummm no...they sound totally different imo. I wish more peeps knew about coroner - spread the wealth!

Written by X-Ray Rod on 17.07.2009 at 01:40

I gave some recommendation in a forum... Coroner among them and someone just said it was "meh" because it sounded like late Overkill. I'm hearing overkill right now but fail to see anything similar... Now there are two obtions:

- I'm deaf
- The dude is just wrong.

Pfff.. Coroner are the shit when it comes to thrash!, I can't believe some metalhead can't like this band.

Coroner sounding like late Overkill
Overkill wished they could be that technical.

- You're NOT deaf
- Yes, the dude is just wrong, and is the deaf one, not you.

Yeah... after that he said that he didn't like slow thrash... what the eff?

Written by X-Ray Rod on 17.07.2009 at 14:05

Yeah... after that he said that he didn't like slow thrash... what the eff?

But he did like Overkill? Talk about slow thrash

Written by X-Ray Rod on 17.07.2009 at 14:05

Yeah... after that he said that he didn't like slow thrash... what the eff?

C mon man this band is awesoem, 3th best Europian thrash band, after Sabbath n Arthilery , realya wesome, I like it, ok its tec thrash, but Overkill nowdays sucks to, Coroner never sucked , maybe last album wasnt like 80's but I like each of albums, when I lsiten, even I dont do it each day, maybe once in month, but when I do it I like

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 17.07.2009 at 14:09

Written by X-Ray Rod on 17.07.2009 at 14:05

Yeah... after that he said that he didn't like slow thrash... what the eff?

But he did like Overkill? Talk about slow thrash

Nah.. he said: "They sound like late Overkill and that's the exact opposite of good if you ask me"

Written by Bad English on 17.07.2009 at 14:12

Written by X-Ray Rod on 17.07.2009 at 14:05

Yeah... after that he said that he didn't like slow thrash... what the eff?

C mon man this band is awesoem, 3th best Europian thrash band, after Sabbath n Arthilery , realya wesome, I like it, ok its tec thrash, but Overkill nowdays sucks to, Coroner never sucked , maybe last album wasnt like 80's but I like each of albums, when I lsiten, even I dont do it each day, maybe once in month, but when I do it I like

Ahh...I'm excited...Coroner talk!! I am sooo biased but I feel they are the most underrated thrash band

Written by tea[m]ster on 17.07.2009 at 22:37

Written by Bad English on 17.07.2009 at 14:12

Written by X-Ray Rod on 17.07.2009 at 14:05

Yeah... after that he said that he didn't like slow thrash... what the eff?

C mon man this band is awesoem, 3th best Europian thrash band, after Sabbath n Arthilery , realya wesome, I like it, ok its tec thrash, but Overkill nowdays sucks to, Coroner never sucked , maybe last album wasnt like 80's but I like each of albums, when I lsiten, even I dont do it each day, maybe once in month, but when I do it I like

Ahh...I'm excited...Coroner talk!! I am sooo biased but I feel they are the most underrated thrash band

I would say moust underated from well know, there many underated n forgotten bands ,

Written by Bad English on 18.07.2009 at 00:11

Written by tea[m]ster on 17.07.2009 at 22:37

Written by Bad English on 17.07.2009 at 14:12

Written by X-Ray Rod on 17.07.2009 at 14:05

Yeah... after that he said that he didn't like slow thrash... what the eff?

C mon man this band is awesoem, 3th best Europian thrash band, after Sabbath n Arthilery , realya wesome, I like it, ok its tec thrash, but Overkill nowdays sucks to, Coroner never sucked , maybe last album wasnt like 80's but I like each of albums, when I lsiten, even I dont do it each day, maybe once in month, but when I do it I like

Ahh...I'm excited...Coroner talk!! I am sooo biased but I feel they are the most underrated thrash band

I would say moust underated from well know, there many underated n forgotten bands ,

I might have seen them on the cover of one of those metal magazines - like Kerrang - after No More Color. That was about all the exposure I saw here in the states in the late 80's

I don't get the hype here about Mental Vortex. Punishment for Decadence is so much better - it's faster and has much more active guitar riffs

As I stated in another thread: I 'm mad at myself for NOT listening Coroner from the beginning.
I was into Kreator, Sodom...at that time and I knew Coroner, but for some bizarre reason I didn't took time to listen properly to them. Shame on me!
Anyway, that was the past. Since 2001 or something it's one of my favorite thrash bands.
I like all albums and No More Color the most (at this time)
The song R.I.P. from R.I.P. is one of my favs.
Punishment For Decadence is indeed better then Mental Vortex (and R.I.P. and Grin)

Written by Dangerboner on 23.03.2010 at 10:27

I don't get the hype here about Mental Vortex. Punishment for Decadence is so much better - it's faster and has much more active guitar riffs

Agreed. But No More Color is still my favourite by them, closely followed by Punishment For Decadence.

When asked about a Coroner reunion, the bands reply was "not enough time or interest".

A great loss for present day metal.

Written by Ur-Drago on 23.03.2010 at 23:31

When asked about a Coroner reunion, the bands reply was "not enough time or interest".

A great loss for present day metal.

With so many pointless thrash reunions, this is disheartening. I'm sure lack of interest is not a key issue!

I actually discovered them only a few days ago on Slacker. Super impressive shit. And I never even knew they were out there.

To me Punishment for Decadence and No More Color are kind of messy compared to Mental Vortex and especially Grin. I think Mental Vortex has catchier riffs and is just better overall than the previous albums. As far as Grin, I used to not dig it, but now I think it's pure brilliance. Different from all other albums with unique songwriting and sound. "Host" is a masterpiece.

Inteview with Tommy T. Baron

We might see the new album although the chances are not so high.

Interesting interview. It's nice to know why they disbanded. Also Tommy says some controversial things about Mille Petrozza.

Written by K✞ulu on 24.10.2010 at 14:13

Inteview with Tommy T. Baron

We might see the new album although the chances are not so high.

Interesting interview. It's nice to know why they disbanded. Also Tommy says some controversial things about Mille Petrozza.

Excellent find my friend! I am reading it right now!

I just want to say that if they wouldn't have decided to come back, I wouldn't probably have known them... what a great discovery I made when I listened for the first time to Die by my Hand or Semtex Revolution...

Think I should probably try to haul my ass over to France this summer, in order to catch them playing on Hellfest. Wouldn't want to miss the oppurtunity.

"My cry echoes on a naked wall cold like a crystal...numbered hours creeping insanity strangles reality..."

Coroner are still one of my all time favorite bands. I think the very first album I got was No More Color followed immediately with Punishment For Decadence. My brother and I were the only ones really to get into Coroner out of all of our friends. I never did see them live and I regret that. I am blown away that it only takes three guys to make that music.

Coroner sucked at MDF. Depressingly disappointing. The old fast stuff was played slowly and without aggression, and the newer slow stuff was played slowly and without aggression.

Written by BrutalN00dle on 30.05.2011 at 20:41

Coroner sucked at MDF. Depressingly disappointing. The old fast stuff was played slowly and without aggression, and the newer slow stuff was played slowly and without aggression.

I heard stories attesting to the exact opposite of what you're saying. So, that they were absolutely brilliant.