Intricate Swiss technology

The small, inconspicuous and hardly perceptible in the global world events Switzerland - the land of beautiful mountains and valleys, the popular milk chocolate, the typical cheese grosslöcherigen, practical pocket knives and precision watches. And yes, the great music! Or someone has forgotten the legendary Krokus? Or Gotthard? And while one is already celebrating with Eluveitie the next big CH band of extreme music sector worldwide, has first yet another band that is all too often overlooked and forgotten, deserves a mention: Coroner. At that time still involved as roadies for Celtic Frost, Tommy T. Baron decided (Tommy Vetterli) and Marquis Marky (Marky Edelmann) along with Ron Royce (Ron Broder) establishing an own band.

While Celtic Frost with her dark, heavy and experimental sound eventually helped shape both the Black and Death Metal sustainably, Coroner controlled in a clearly more technical direction. While most of Thrash Metal Bands Anno 87 seemed increasingly to play with speed and hardness around the bet, a debut launched the three Zurich with "RIP" on the market, which left behind many critics with his mouth open: rough, fast and technically precise like a Swiss watch mixed Coroner classical music and sometimes even jazz elements in uncompromising thrash metal - hit! And in the succession works "Punishment for Decadence" and "No More Color" increased to increasingly, was more complex and accomplished and evolved as a hot iron in the ground and into a veritable cult band.

Album number 4 "Mental Vortex" from 1991 is considered by many critics and fans as the reference work (often together with "No More Color") viewed the tape. Indeed, in this work comes together everything Coroner distinguished on the previous albums. The most striking contrast to the previous albums is significantly clearer and cleaner production. In addition, it dare the Swiss here to reduce the pace after three uncompromisingly fast gezockten albums and with significantly more mid-tempo numbers a technically flawless and groovy sound make their mark. So sound "Son of Lilith", "Semtex Revolution", "Sirens" or the jazzy "Pale Sister" Although slightly curbed (at least as regards the pace), but totally heavy, uncompromising and powerful riffs and groovy on without end. "Metamorphosis" will come to all the crown - one might better Technical Thrash Metal not rewrite. But the faster numbers "Devine Step" and "About Life" completely convince, but are characterized additionally by their complexity and by a more sophisticated songwriting, which reached a climax of the band's history here from. And as if this were not enough, so this album will shine with the Beatles cover "I Want You (She's so heavy)" rounded. And yes, it may sound totally by Coroner, but is clearly visible in its core and charm - simply great!

Yes, believe it or not, but the quality of this caliber was years, even decades even to recognize. Three highly talented musicians who were simply deprived of their recognition, even if they were called by insiders or today as stylistically current bands like Death as an inspiration and sometimes as a musical influence. And even if for lack of promotion, if not exploitation on the part of the label, the band in 1996 a line made by the bill and dissolved, it was decided in 2010 to re-union after fans from around the world, the three gentlemen incessantly about asking ,

To get straight to the point: Who comes close something has left for Thrash Metal, which should give a chance Coroner necessarily. And who likes technically advanced Thrash Metal who comes to this band simply not pass. For me, anyway musically the grandest what Switzerland has ever produced on metallic sounds - yes, ish so imfall.

Oh, and to add even a winking Footnote: The last three albums (also from 2010) of today's most successful metal band of Switzerland Eluveitie was by none other than produced by Tommy Vetterli some ...