''No More Color'' is Swiss

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band Coroner's third album, released in 1989.

Musical style

''No More Color'' was the album where Coroner started to truly "progress", as the songs are still similar to their older, speedy, European thrash metal but start to feature elements of the

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progressive thrash of their later albums, akin to the band's then-labelmates

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. This album also features very proficient instrumentation and incorporation of elements from genres such as

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and classical music, which would later be an influence on the evolution and maturity of the experimental side of heavy metal, including acts such as

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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, with additional photographs of the band and memorabilia.

Track listing

Personnel

All information is taken from the CD liner notes of the 1989 release.''No More Color'' (booklet). Coroner. Noise International. 1989 ;Coroner *Ron Broder (as Ron Royce) – vocals, bass *Tommy Vetterli (as Tommy T. Baron) – guitars *Marky Edelmann (as Marquis Marky) – drums, spoken word on "Last Entertainment" ;Production * Pete Hinton – production * Steve Rispin – engineer, synth effects * Dan Johnson, Scott Burns – mixing at

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, Tampa, Florida * Karl-Ulrich Walterbach – executive producer * Martin Becker – photography * Micha Good – skull and blade logo

References

External links

BNR Metal Pages' section on Coroner

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