Grin (Coroner album)

Grin is the fifth studio album by the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner, 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 Coroner, 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 thrash metal template of its predecessors. The album also incorporates elements of alternative metal, groove metal and industrial metal, and retains some of the avant-garde influences from the band's previous albums No More Color (1989) and Mental Vortex (1991).

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.

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 – didgeridoo 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