CORONER: Punishment For Decadence Vinyl LP

Zurich produced three of the most technically gifted musicians in thrash metal history, put them in a band that toured with Celtic Frost, and then somehow let them exist in relative obscurity for thirty years. Coroner's loss is your record collection's gain.

Punishment for Decadence from 1988 is the record where Coroner's technical thrash ambitions really started to outpace their contemporaries. Tommy T. Baron's guitar work alone would have made this worth owning, but the album holds together as a proper piece of progressive metal architecture, one that influenced a lot of players who'll never publicly admit it. It sits in that specific zone where speed, precision, and genuine darkness intersect without tipping into sterile shred territory. If your taste runs from early Megadeth toward Watchtower and you haven't spent time with Coroner, this is the entry point.

Vinyl LP. Genre: technical thrash metal, progressive metal. Origin: Switzerland, 1988. Various reissues exist. Fans of: Watchtower, Toxik, Destruction, early Megadeth.