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Coroner

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Coroner’s unorthodox approach to thrash metal had been turning heads and opening minds with their every release, and with album number four, 1991’s Mental Vortex, the band arguably reached their creative peak. Widely regarded as their greatest achievement, Mental Vortex was the culmination of three increasingly unique and experimental albums which saw the Swiss trio (much like their early mentors, Celtic Frost) quickly moving away from the everyday trappings of thrash metal into unpredictable avant-thrash territory. In the process, unbridled speed and aggression were replaced by highly technical and unconventional songwriting, so that by this time, only singer Ron Royce’s deathly grunts remotely linked the band to their primitive origins. Indeed, mind-bending excursions like “Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis),” “Sirens,” and “Metamorphosis” defy the boundaries of heavy metal, flirting with jazz and pro