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Kerrang! Magazine Death Dec'Coroner: providing the K!-approved daily
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Kerrang! Magazine Death Dec'Coroner: providing the K!-approved daily
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Let's face fakts Deathsters, Koroner had a pretty ruff time last year. Their debut album "RIP", despite getting rave reviews, was virtually ignored and then a proposed tour with New York Moshers MOD was suddenly and mysteriously kancelled! This year, however, is gonna be different. For starters they were given an international producer (Guy Bidmead) for "PFD" and sekondly Noise Rekords have promised Koroner tour support -- and believe me those boyzz are itching to get out on the road!
So how does "PFD" kompare with "RIP"? Well, it's a lot stronger, the songs are a lot more sophistikated and so is the produktion. It definitely sounds as if Koroner spent many a sleepless night in the Sky Trak studio striving for perfektion -- and I'm not referring to Marquis Marky's pool playing!
So let's take a kloser look at what the Zurich-based trio have kome up with. For starters we have "Absorbed" -- Brain Wave Tekno Frash of the highest order, great Speed Metal with very klever time switches brought about by Tommy T Baron's khord changes and Marquis Marky's effektive skin pounding.
Bassist Ron Royce, meanwhile, gets his 10-penneth in on "Masked Jackal" as he snarls, "Worshipped by the masses" (and I'm sure he will be one day!) There's a great slow bit in the middle of the song, where Tommy T's guitar grinds down, just like a dentist drill!OOOUUUCCCHHH! It hurts just thinking about it! "Arc Lite", not to be konfused with the looger of a similar name, is an instrumental and definitely has a klassikal feel to it. "Skeleton On Your Shoulder" (great title, eh!) akshully kikks off with some Oliverian approved keyboards, and very deft they are -- in fakt, the whole opening sorta reminded me of the heyday Rush. Whether Koroner intended the opening to be a piss-take of Rush or not is hard to say, but it certainly made me chukkle, especially when Ron sez, "Skeleton on your shoulder, I willmake you bleed!". And that pretty much takes kares of Side One.
Pikk of the pops on Side Two? Well there's the opener "Sudden Fall" -- you kan feel the hate and anger in this song, simply thru' the aggressive playing of Messrs Royce, Marky and Baron, and just listen to the klever time change for the "Sudden Fall" -- AAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Finally there's "New Breed" (the kurrent 12-incher, which features a rip-roaring version of the Hendrix klassik "Purple Haze" on the B-side), a politikal song about war children growing up in places like Iran and Beirut, and how they kome to terms with it. you kan just feel the bullets fly as Tommy T lets his riffs spew forth!
Yeah, I really dig "Punishment For Decadence", and if yer likes yer Death Metal with a bit of klass thrown in for good measure, then I'm sure you'll dig Koroner too.
So how's about a UK tour lads?!
Reprinted without permission from the magazine Kerrang!, issue #204, September 10, 1988.
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