Coroner: Punishment For Decadence (remastered, iceberg blend vinyl) [HIGH ROLLER]

Why you'll love it

High Roller's remastered reissue of the Swiss thrash trio's 1988 album on iceberg blend vinyl. Coroner's mix of thrash speed, classical guitar and progressive ambition has made them a cult favourite, and the band's own channel carries "Masked Jackal".

This edition

• Remastered
• Limited iceberg blend vinyl
• Reissue of the 1988 album

About the album

Punishment For Decadence, from 1988, was Coroner's second album and the one where the Swiss trio's ambitions really took off. Ron Royce's bark, Tommy Vetterli's dazzling, neo-classical guitar and Marquis Marky's busy drumming pushed thrash into stranger, more technical places, without ever losing the sheer speed.

"Masked Jackal" got a proper music video, "Absorbed" and "Arc-Lite" race along, and the album ends with a wild cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze". It's the bridge between their raw debut and the prog-thrash of what came next. Few thrash bands of 1988 would have dared the Hendrix; fewer still would have pulled it off.

Tracklist

Listen

Out October 9, 2026 on High Roller (cat# HRR1087LPB), a reissue of the 1988 album.