WELCOME BACK
Coroner
Back with a new album after 14 years, and on a different musical tack to their thrash metal of the 80s and 90s.
SPINAL TAP: BLEECKER STREET / KYLE KAPLAN; CORONER: MANUEL SCHÜTZ/PRESS
Coroner were in the progressive wing of the old-school European thrash scene. Between 1987 and their split in 1996, the Swiss trio released five albums that incorporated increasingly unorthodox, prog- and jazz-inspired textures into their music. Fourteen years after reuniting, they’ve released their belated sixth album, Dissonance Theory, which brings their titanium-edged technicality into the 2020s. “They used to describe us as the Rush of thrash metal,” says guitarist Tommy Vetterli. “There are worse things to be called.”