“More Mature, Yet Still Weird,” Says Guitarist TOMMY T. BARON

In a new interview with Serbia’s Agoraphobic News, Coroner’s bassist/vocalist Ron “Royce” Broder and guitarist Tommy T. Baron offered details about the recording sessions for the band’s album, which will be their first studio effort since the 1993’s Grin.

Broder indicated that the new material is showing a different level of refinement: “Yeah, Tommy can tell more about it, but we have some songs recorded, and my feeling is the songs are much more polished and mature than it was in the first career. But Tommy can better answer.”

However, Baron offered a slightly different perspective on the nature of their evolving sound: “I wouldn’t agree that it’s more polished. It’s more mature, I would say. In the past, we wrote the music more to show off that we practiced a lot, and nowadays we write more from the heart and from the balls,” he explained.

When asked about the overall sound of the forthcoming album, Baron reassured fans that it will still retain the quintessential Coroner essence, albeit with a mature twist: “It’s gonna sound like typical Coroner, but, yeah, a little more mature. There’s a lot of technical parts in it as well, but it’s a little bit more song-oriented, and it also sounds very weird, like it always did.”

Drawing comparisons to their previous works, Baron suggested that while the new material shares similarities with Grin, it also incorporates elements from their earlier records, such as No More Color (1989) and Mental Vortex (1991). Yet, he was quick to emphasize that replicating the past would not only be impossible but also creatively uninspired: “It’s not possible, 30 years later, you make the same album, and it also would be totally stupid and boring.”

“For me, these are songs. It’s a showcase of what we learned and practice,” Baron shared in a 2022 interview with Blabbermouth. “Everybody who has heard the pre-production, including the record company, is really happy and thinks that’s the way the band should sound. It’s more about feel and is song-oriented. The technical stuff is still there, but not the main thing. It’s going to be weird, like all Coroner songs. My goal is always to do something I didn’t hear one-hundred times before. Most bands are a copy of another band. There are a lot of great bands, but I miss the freshness or originality.”