Coroner Noise

Back in 2017, I was excited to pick up an original German pressing for the Punishment For Decadence album from Coroner. I was pretty excited at the prospect of chasing down a bunch of other German Noise pressings, and even added a few more over the following years... but the mission ran out of steam and it feels like I had lost that spark to chase original pressings for old metal records. Going through Tim's collection and picking up some 80's metal vinyl has kind of reinvigorated me on that, but the only problem has been that Tim was mostly picking up US versions at the time... which leaves me in kind of a bind since I prefer to buy UK/European pressings for UK/European bands. So I'm forced between immediate satisfaction in settling for an available US pressing from Tim's collection, or deciding to hold out for the pressing that I really want. Unfortunately I'm an immediate satisfaction bitch.

Coroner was a technical thrash metal band out of Switzerland, and back in the day I picked up three of their CDs. I remembered really liking Punishment For Decadence, but with R.I.P. (1987) and No More Color (1989), I don't remember giving those albums much playing time. I remember a few years back, my old blogger friend Lins told me that I really need to go back and check out R.I.P. again, and when I saw it in Tim's collection, I figured that the time was now.

I'm so glad that I was pushed to finally check out this album again. These songs are so good. I kind of get why 17 year old Mike didn't give this a lot of spins, as he was being bombarded with so much great thrash at the time, but this kind of rough and complex metal suits me well in 2025 and I'm loving listening to this. Shame about those white US Noise center labels though. The German pressing looks so much better!