Mental Vortex

Mental Vortex
Mental Vortex
Studio album by Coroner
Released	12 August 1991
Recorded	April–June 1991
Studio	Sky Trak Studio, Berlin
Genre	Thrash metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal
Length	47:30
Label	Noise
Producer	Tom Morris
Coroner chronology

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

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

Track listing[]

All lyrics are written by Marquis Marky, except where noted.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis)"		Baron, Royce	7:05
2.	"Son of Lilith"		Baron, Royce	6:55
3.	"Semtex Revolution"		Baron	5:31
4.	"Sirens"		Baron, Royce	4:56
5.	"Metamorphosis"		Baron, Royce	5:35
6.	"Pale Sister"		Baron	4:55
7.	"About Life"		Baron	5:18
8.	"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" (The Beatles cover)	Lennon, McCartney	Lennon, McCartney	7:15
Total length:				47:30

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 song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".

References[]

^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Coroner Mental Vortex review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
^ Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.

External links[]

[1] Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Coroner Mental Vortex review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 10 September 2011.

[martin-2] Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.

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