Artist: Coroner
Album: The Unknown: Unreleased Tracks 1985-95
Release: 1996
Label: Self-Released
Tracklist:
1. Oriental Vortex
2. Der Mussolini [Remix]
3. Octopus
4. Old Man Bickford
5. S.W.A.T.
6. Theme For Silence [Original Vesrion]
7. Grin [No Religion Remix- Instrumental]
8. Twenty Eight
9. Time Vortex/Back to '88
10. Spectators Of Sin
11. The Invincible
12. Host [Instrumental]
13. Benway's World [Original Version]
14. Golden Cashmere Sleeper (Part One) [Live]
15. Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis) [Live]
16. Status: Still Thinking [Live]
17. Metamorphosis [Live]
18. Internal Conflicts [Live]
19. Grin (Nails Hurt) [Live]
My birthday arrived some six months early this year when it was revealed that cult Swiss metal band Coroner would be reuniting for Hellfest 2011 in France. In celebration, I'd like to share this tape, a collection of goodies the band sold during their 1996 farewell tour in Europe.
Side A gives the listener a solid look into the trio's journeys into ambient spacing tracks, electronic music and found sounds. If nothing else, these give great indication of the band's many musical interests. "Octopus" blinks and bubbles with a fitting aquatic feel; "Old Man Bickford" features a bluesy shuffle underneath William S. Burroughs' sharp spoken prose. "S.W.A.T." fittingly feels like a soundtrack to an awesome PM Entertainment action film. Elsewhere, the instrumental techno remix of Grin's title track and a cover of DAF's "Der Mussolini" channel Tommy Vetterli's piston-tight guitar chug through techno tunes-- and it works!-- while "Oriental Vortex," "Twenty Eight" and "Time Vortex/Back to '88" all explore spacy soundscapes. Finally, the exploration ends and we indeed take a time vortex back to 1986's Death Cult demo tape with Tom Warrior on vocals for the pleasingly raw thrash of "Spectators of Sin" and "The Invincible."
Side B, on the other hand, gives you the qualities of Coroner that, if a fan, you know and love. With the exception of the unsettling "Benway's World (Original Version)," the remaining tracks are live, recorded quite clearly straight from the board at, according to Metal-Archives, the "Coroner-funeral" show in their home of Zurich. The setlist is short on the highly technical material of their first three albums, but big on awesome. The band open with the haunting first half of "Golden Cashmere Sleeper" and then launch headfirst into the eerie grooves of "Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis)." Every song is lively, tight, and churning with aggression. Dudes may sound aggravated and clearly wanting to get things done and over with after years of little press recognition and troubles with the notoriously-shoddy-but-awesomely-rostered Noise Records, but their path to the finish line is paved with the almost-blast beats of Marky Edelmann at the finale of "Grin (Nails Hurt)." Several trigger pulls of a beltfed machine gun punctuate the set, marking the demise of one of the most underrated, forward-thinking heavy bands ever formed.
Welcome back, Ron, Tommy and Marky. Even if no new music is made, you'll be validating the lives of longtime fans the world over when you hit the stage next summer-- this author included.
Download Here
-Asa
Album: The Unknown: Unreleased Tracks 1985-95
Release: 1996
Label: Self-Released
Tracklist:
1. Oriental Vortex
2. Der Mussolini [Remix]
3. Octopus
4. Old Man Bickford
5. S.W.A.T.
6. Theme For Silence [Original Vesrion]
7. Grin [No Religion Remix- Instrumental]
8. Twenty Eight
9. Time Vortex/Back to '88
10. Spectators Of Sin
11. The Invincible
12. Host [Instrumental]
13. Benway's World [Original Version]
14. Golden Cashmere Sleeper (Part One) [Live]
15. Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis) [Live]
16. Status: Still Thinking [Live]
17. Metamorphosis [Live]
18. Internal Conflicts [Live]
19. Grin (Nails Hurt) [Live]
My birthday arrived some six months early this year when it was revealed that cult Swiss metal band Coroner would be reuniting for Hellfest 2011 in France. In celebration, I'd like to share this tape, a collection of goodies the band sold during their 1996 farewell tour in Europe.
Side A gives the listener a solid look into the trio's journeys into ambient spacing tracks, electronic music and found sounds. If nothing else, these give great indication of the band's many musical interests. "Octopus" blinks and bubbles with a fitting aquatic feel; "Old Man Bickford" features a bluesy shuffle underneath William S. Burroughs' sharp spoken prose. "S.W.A.T." fittingly feels like a soundtrack to an awesome PM Entertainment action film. Elsewhere, the instrumental techno remix of Grin's title track and a cover of DAF's "Der Mussolini" channel Tommy Vetterli's piston-tight guitar chug through techno tunes-- and it works!-- while "Oriental Vortex," "Twenty Eight" and "Time Vortex/Back to '88" all explore spacy soundscapes. Finally, the exploration ends and we indeed take a time vortex back to 1986's Death Cult demo tape with Tom Warrior on vocals for the pleasingly raw thrash of "Spectators of Sin" and "The Invincible."
Side B, on the other hand, gives you the qualities of Coroner that, if a fan, you know and love. With the exception of the unsettling "Benway's World (Original Version)," the remaining tracks are live, recorded quite clearly straight from the board at, according to Metal-Archives, the "Coroner-funeral" show in their home of Zurich. The setlist is short on the highly technical material of their first three albums, but big on awesome. The band open with the haunting first half of "Golden Cashmere Sleeper" and then launch headfirst into the eerie grooves of "Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis)." Every song is lively, tight, and churning with aggression. Dudes may sound aggravated and clearly wanting to get things done and over with after years of little press recognition and troubles with the notoriously-shoddy-but-awesomely-rostered Noise Records, but their path to the finish line is paved with the almost-blast beats of Marky Edelmann at the finale of "Grin (Nails Hurt)." Several trigger pulls of a beltfed machine gun punctuate the set, marking the demise of one of the most underrated, forward-thinking heavy bands ever formed.
Welcome back, Ron, Tommy and Marky. Even if no new music is made, you'll be validating the lives of longtime fans the world over when you hit the stage next summer-- this author included.
Download Here
-Asa
2 comments:
Whoa! Thanks!
Sick find, man. Finally got to jam it last night.
-Adam
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