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Mental Vortex is the fourth album by the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner, released on 12 August 1991.

Mental Vortex
Studio album by Coroner
Released	12 August 1991
Recorded	April–June 1991
Studio	Sky Trak Studio, Berlin
Genre	Technical thrash metal progressive metal avant-garde metal
Length	47:30
Label	Noise
Producer	Tom Morris
Coroner chronology
No More Color (1989) Mental Vortex (1991) Grin (1993)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	9/10[2]

Musical style

Mental Vortex sees Coroner continuing the experimental formula from its predecessor No More Color (1989), showcasing a mixture of thrash metal with progressive, jazz fusion and avant-garde influences,[3] while "unbridled speed and aggression were replaced by highly technical and unconventional songwriting".[1]

Reissues

After being out of print for many years, Noise/BMG reissued the album in 2018, remastered with the same track list in a digipack cd case, with additional photographs of the band and memorabilia.

Track listing

Personnel

Coroner

• Ron Broder (as Ron Royce) – vocals, bass
• Tommy Vetterli (as Tommy T. Baron) – guitars
• Marky Edelmann (as Marquis Marky) – drums, cover concept and design

Additional musicians

• Kent Smith – keyboards
• Janelle Sadler – backing vocals
• Steve Gruden – backing vocals

Production

• Tom Morris – producer, engineer, mixing
• Sven Conquest – second engineer
• Karl-U. Walterbach – executive producer
• Martin Becker – photography (cover and sleeve)
• Maren Lotz – typography
• Robbie Müller – digital image

Notes

• The intro on "Divine Step" (the "Emergency Room intro") is from the movie Re-Animator.
• Lilith is a female demon of the Mesopotamian mythology.
• The sample at the end of "Semtex Revolution" is from a Dallas news broadcast covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
• Semtex is a type of plastic explosive.
• "About Life" samples the line 'We have to see, we have to know' from the film Hellbound: Hellraiser II.
• The cover image is a modified photograph of Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho.
• A music video was made for the song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".

References

External links

• BNR Metal Pages' section on Coroner
• Fan page with detailed album information and lyrics
• Coroner at Last.fm

На других языках

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[de] Mental Vortex

Mental Vortex (engl. ‹geistiger Wirbel›) ist das vierte Studioalbum der Schweizer Thrash-Metal-Band Coroner. Es erschien am 12. August 1991 via Noise Records.

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