Coroner "Punishment for Decadence (Germany, Noise Records, N 0119-3)"

Coroner is a Swiss thrash metal band from Zürich formed in 1983, better known for the lineup formed in 1985. They garnered relatively little attention outside of Europe. The band broke up in 1996, but reunited in 2010.

Coroner's music combines elements of thrash, classical music, avant-garde music, progressive rock, jazz, and industrial metal with suitably gruff vocals. With their increasingly complex style of progressive rock-infused thrash, they have been called "the Rush of thrash metal", and along with Voivod and Watchtower, the band has been credited for helping pioneer the subgenre of "technical thrash metal" (also called "progressive thrash metal") during the mid-to-late 1980s.

Punishment for Decadence is the second album by the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner, released on 1 August 1988.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Marquis Marky, except where noted; all music is composed by Tommy T. Baron and Ron Royce, except where noted.

1. "Intro" (instrumental) 0:12
2. "Absorbed" 3:43
3. "Masked Jackal" 4:46
4. "Arc-Lite" (instrumental) 3:20
5. "Skeleton on Your Shoulder" 5:35
6. "Sudden Fall" 4:50
7. "Shadow of a Lost Dream" 4:31
8. "The New Breed" 4:52
9. "Voyage to Eternity" 3:45
10. "Purple Haze" (Jimi Hendrix cover) 3:20

Total length: 38:54

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed at Sky Trak Studio, Berlin in May 1988.

Guy Bidmead – producer, engineer

Andreas Gerhard – assistant engineer

Marquis Marky – cover, concept and design, photo credits

Micha Good – skull logo