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Mental Vortex

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic4.5/5 stars[1]

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

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis)"7:05
2."Son of Lilith"6:55
3."Semtex Revolution"5:31
4."Sirens"4:56
Side B
No.TitleLyricsLength
5."Metamorphosis" 5:35
6."Pale Sister" 4:55
7."About Life" 5:18
8."I Want You (She's So Heavy)" (The Beatles cover)John Lennon, Paul McCartney7:15
Total length:47:30

Credits

Band members
  • Ron Broder (as Ron Royce) - Vocals, Bass
  • Tommy Vetterli (as Tommy T. Baron) - Guitars
  • Marky Edelmann (as Marquis Marky) - Drums
Additional Musicians
  • Kent Smith - Keyboards
  • Janelle Sadler - Vocals (backing)
  • Steve Gruden - Vocals (backing)
Production
  • Tom Morris - Producer, Mixing, Engineering
  • Sven Conquest - Engineering (second)
  • Karl-U. Walterbach - Executive Producer
  • Marquis Marky - Cover (concept and design)
  • 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

  1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Coroner Mental Vortex review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-09-10.

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