Mental Vortex is the fourth album by the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner, released on 12 August 1991.
Musical style Mental Vortex continues Coroner's experimental approach established in its predecessor, No More Color (1989), blending thrash metal with progressive, jazz fusion, and avant-garde influences. About the album's direction, Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic claims, "Unbridled speed and aggression were replaced by highly technical and unconventional songwriting."
Reissues 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, including additional photographs of the band and memorabilia.
Track listing
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
Charts + Chart performance for Mental Vortex Chart (2026) Peakposition
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 the song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".
References
External links BNR Metal Pages' section on Coroner Fan page with detailed album information and lyrics Coroner at Last.fm