''Grin'' is the fifth studio album by the Swiss

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band

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, released in 1993. It was the band's final album before their fourteen-year break up from 1996 to 2010, and to date, other than several new tracks on the 1995 compilation album ''

'', ''Grin'' remains the most recent studio album by the band. It is also the last Coroner album to feature drummer Marky Edelmann, who left the band in 2014.

Musical style

''Grin'' is considered a major departure from Coroner's previous works, moving to much greater experimentation. It is more focused on the aspects of progressive and technical metal, as opposed to the traditional

template of its predecessors. The album also incorporates elements of

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and

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, and retains some of the

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influences from the band's previous albums '' No More Color'' (1989) and ''

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Reissues

After being out of print for many years, Noise/BMG reissued the album in 2018, remastered with additional photographs of the band and memorabilia.

Track listing

Personnel

;Coroner *Ron Broder (as Ron Royce) – vocals, bass *Tommy Vetterli (as Tommy T. Baron) – guitars *Marky Edelmann (as Marquis Marky) – drums, spoken word on "Host", art direction ;Additional musicians *Kent Smith – keyboards & synthesizer *Roger Dupont – programming on "The Lethargic Age" and the instrumentals *Tim Chatfield –

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on "Status: Still Thinking" and the instrumentals *Paul Degoyler – additional vocals on "Grin (Nails Hurt)" *Bettina Klöti – additional vocals on "Host" ;Production *Tom Morris – engineer, mixing *Gerhard Woelfe – engineer *Voco Faux–Pas – drum engineer *Mark Prator – assistant engineer *Eddy Schreyer – mastering *Istvan Vizner – art direction, photography *Martin Becker – photography *Peter Vahlefeld – graphics *Karl–U. Walterbach – executive producer

Notes

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at the start of "Internal Conflicts". The voices are

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covered the song "Paralyzed, Mesmerized" for their 2005 album ''Internal Complexity''.

References

External links

BNR Metal Pages' section on Coroner

{{Authority control 1993 albums Coroner (band) albums Progressive metal albums by Swiss artists Noise Records albums