The third Coroner album is the peak of their first era, the ultimate expression of the technical thrash style they’d built on 1987’s R.I.P. and 1988’s Punishment For Decadence, while hinting at the experimental groove metal that would come on 1991’s Mental Vortex and 1993’s Grin. It comes out of the gate strong with one of the band’s most aggressive songs, “Die By My Hand,” before slowing down for the midtempo, pummeling “No Need to Be Human” and “Read My Scars.” But for most of the disc’s 34 minutes, they’re in high gear, speeding through a series of hairpin turns. Guitarist Thomas Vetterli gets his greatest showcase on “Mistress of Deception,” which is practically an instrumental, with one verse and chorus before an extended guitar solo, another chorus, and a complex, ever-shifting scaffold of riffs augmented by piercing harmonic squeals. “Tunnel of Pain” is another marathon of machine-gun drumming, manic riffage, and lightning-fast fretboard abuse. The album’s final track, “Last Entertainment,” is a departure, incorporating a spoken monologue instead of sung vocals, and eerie keyboards to give it a dreamlike feel and point to where they’d be heading next. At this time, Megadeth were marketing themselves as “The World’s State-of-the-Art Speed Metal Band,” but the songs on No More Color, pyrotechnic and flashy, make a strong argument that that title more accurately belonged to Coroner.