CORONER – Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis) + Interview

Coroner is a Swiss thrash metal band from Zürich. They garnered relatively little attention outside of Europe. Formed in 1983, the band broke up in 1996, but reformed 14 years later. The band has performed at multiple live venues and festivals around worldwide since 2011, and plans to release their first studio album in three decades in 2023.

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”,[6] 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.[7] Coroner’s sound then progressed and the production became more refined, resulting in the more progressive albums No More Color (1989), Mental Vortex (1991) and Grin (1993).

[Skit]
All right, I’m gonna zap her again
Charge up the paddles
Come on, let’s go! Let’s go!
OK, sorry, doctor
Hold the compressions
Clear!
Straight line (Straight line)

[Verse 1]
This is the last hit
Your heart will beat
Into this world

[Verse 2]
This is the first step
Your soul will take
Up to the sky

[Verse 3]
No time to pray ‘cos you
Can’t stay where words
Like that would count

[Verse 4]
Face the moment
That you feared and
Glide outside your brain

[Pre-Chorus]
Golden wings
Drawn in blood
What is sin?
And who is God?

[Verse 5]
This time it’s real
And not a game
Now cross the edge of time

[Verse 6]
The circle’s closed
So enter now
The land of unborn life

[Pre-Chorus]
Golden wings
Drawn in blood
What is sin?
And who is God?

[Chorus]
You will find out
If your heaven is colored black
And you will find out
If your suffering will find an end

[Interlude]
(Hahahaha…)

[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 1]
This is the last hit
Your heart will beat
Into this world