Coroner - D.O.A.
I won't go till the sun lights the night
And the moon is melting my skin
Water turns to fire
And flames are freezing to ice
I won't go till I've tasted dark wine
Made out of deepest sorrow
Absorbing winds of suffering
On fields of blood and tears
Pictures move fast...the end in sight
But I will break...the laws of time
I won't go till I've immersed myself
On the trail of mystery
Searching for the sacred two-headed worm
Who crawls down my soul———————————————————————
Ron Royce (aka Ron Broder) - Vocals/Bass
Tommy T.Baron (real name Thomas Vetterli) - Guitars
Marquis Marky (aka Marky Edelmann) - Drums
Coroner's third album in as many years continued the band's rapid evolution in style and offered some much-needed improvement in production values. While hardly their best-produced recording, No More Color has a cleaner, crisper sound quality than its predecessors and contains what was easily the group's finest songwriting up to that point. In their continual quest for perfection, the band further honed their craft, bulking up their sound while continuing to experiment with unusual time signatures and jazz-like chord progressions. It's interesting to note that unlike so many bands who attempt to streamline their songwriting, Coroner is one of the few groups to greatly benefit from the process. "Read My Scars" is an excellent example of this. A textbook lesson in dynamics, the song exhibits breakneck tempo changes and swirling instrumental passages within the confines of a relatively simple (but highly memorable) main riff. As journalist Steffan Chirazi noted at the time, "Coroner display a healthy ability to grab hold of parts that don't really make too much sense as separates and turn them into superb, rolling compositions. This band has every right to be as big as Slayer." Sadly, that level of success would never happen. But Coroner would continue to develop their work and quietly take their place as one of the world's most innovative and underrated bands.
Tracks:
01. Die By My Hand
02. No Need To Be Human
03. Read My Scars
04. D.O.A.
05. Mistress of Deception
06. Tunnel of Pain
07. Why It Hurts
08. Last Entertainment
All lyrics by Marquis Marky except "Why It Hurts" by Martin Ain
Produced by Pete Hinton and Coroner
Engineered by Steve Rispin
Mixed by Dan Johnson and Scott Burns at Morrisound, Tampa, Florida
Recorded at Sky Trak Studio, West Berlin, June 89
Executive Producer Karl-Ulrich Walterbach
Cover concept and design by Marquis Marky
All Synth. Eff. by Steve Rispin
Spoken words on "Last Entertainment" by M. Marky
Management: Drakkar Promotion Europe, Drakkar USA
Available on NOISE INTL. - WK 45181
