Remastered and restored by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY in February 2026.
Cutting by SST Germany on Neumann machines for optimal quality on all levels... The ultimate audiophile edition of this eternal classic!
Tommy T. Baron - Guitars, Vocals (backing)
Marquis Marky - Vocals (backing), Drums
Ron Royce - Bass, Vocals
01. Intro
02. Reborn Through Hate
03. When Angels Die
04. Intro (Nosferatu)
05. Nosferatu
06. Suicide Command
07. Spiral Dream
08. R.I.P.
09. Coma
10. Fried Alive
11. Intro (Totentanz)
12. Totentanz
13. Outro
In 1986, bassist Ron Royce (Ron Broder), guitarist Tommy T. Baron (Tommy Vetterli) and drummer Marquis Marky (Markus Edelmann) issued their first demo tape »Death Cult« with the help of Celtic Frost’s Tom Gabriel Fischer on vocals (Fischer was also responsible for the lyrics).
A short while later, in early 1987, Zürich’s avantgarde metal pioneers inked a deal with Noise Records from Berlin. By that time, bassist Ron Royce had decided to take on the role as the lead singer of Coroner himself.
Ron singing changed the band’s way of songwriting, moving away from traditional (dark) metal towards forward-thinking thrash metal and thereby creating their very own niche. “Yeah, definitely,” agrees Tommy. “The vocals aren’t very melodic, and they’re actually kept quite simple. That’s why we kept trying to make the music as exciting and intense as possible.”
Karl-Ulrich Walterbach of Noise Records had booked time at Music Lab studios in Berlin for Coroner to record their debut album under the watchful eyes of Harris Johns.
»R.I.P.« was issued in June 1987, receiving very good press feedback. Guitarist Tommy Vetterli comments on the album: “I think the sound could have been better, but that wasn’t really the fault of the producer. It was more that we were always kind of pushing ourselves to the limit of what we could do. That’s why it probably wasn’t played as tightly everywhere.”
The key song on »R.I.P.« was “Reborn Through Hate” (featuring guest vocals by Tom Fischer), a number still performed live by the band on a regular basis today. Also, “Spiral Dream” from the »Death Cult« demo made a reappearance, this time sung by Ron.
Out of the twelve songs, four were instrumentals. Were they always planned as instrumentals, or did the band just have no lyrics for these songs? “I mean, instrumental songs are actually a bit more complicated to write than lyrics, so that wasn’t really the reason,” says Tommy Vetterli. “Back then, it was just the era of instrumental songs, and we also wanted to show the audience that we had practiced a lot.”
MATTHIAS MADER
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