Mental Vortex
Mental Vortex is the fourth album by the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner, released on August 12, 1991. 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.
| Mental Vortex | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 12 August 1991 | |||
| Recorded | Sky Trak Studio, Berlin, April–June 1991 | |||
| Genre | Thrash metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal | |||
| Length | 47:30 | |||
| Label | Noise | |||
| Producer | Tom Morris | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis)" | 7:05 |
| 2. | "Son of Lilith" | 6:55 |
| 3. | "Semtex Revolution" | 5:31 |
| 4. | "Sirens" | 4:56 |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. | "Metamorphosis" | 5:35 | |
| 6. | "Pale Sister" | 4:55 | |
| 7. | "About Life" | 5:18 | |
| 8. | "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" (The Beatles cover) | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 7:15 |
| Total length: | 47:30 | ||
Credits
- Band members
- Ron Broder (as Ron Royce) - Vocals, Bass
- Tommy Vetterli (as Tommy T. Baron) - Guitars
- Marky Edelmann (as Marquis Marky) - Drums
- Additional Musicians
- Kent Smith - Keyboards
- Janelle Sadler - Vocals (backing)
- Steve Gruden - Vocals (backing)
- Production
- Tom Morris - Producer, Mixing, Engineering
- Sven Conquest - Engineering (second)
- Karl-U. Walterbach - Executive Producer
- Marquis Marky - Cover (concept and design)
- 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 song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".
gollark: Military-operated towers, probably.
gollark: I would *probably* not support blowing up a random civilian tower.
gollark: I have no idea what you are talking about. Zero urge units.
gollark: ANTI-BEE GENE DRIVE!
gollark: If bees destroy towers and such, they must be OBLITERATED.
References
- Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Coroner Mental Vortex review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-09-10.
External links
- BNR Metal Pages' section on Coroner
- Fan page with detailed album information and lyrics
- Coroner @ Last.fm
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