Coroner "Grin (Japan, Victor Entertainment, VICP-5259)"

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 other than several new tracks on the 1995 compilation album Coroner, Grin was the last studio album by the band until the 2025 release of Dissonance Theory. It is also the last Coroner album to feature drummer Marky Edelmann, who left the band in 2014.

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).

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

• The film Aliens is sampled at the start of "Internal Conflicts". The voices are Bill Paxton and Colette Hiller.
• Polish technical death metal band Sceptic covered the song "Paralyzed, Mesmerized" for their 2005 album Internal Complexity.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Marquis Marky.

1. "Dream Path" (instrumental) Baron 1:13
2. "The Lethargic Age" Baron 4:17
3. "Internal Conflicts" Baron 6:19
4. "Caveat (To the Coming)" Baron, Royce 6:39
5. "Serpent Moves" Baron 7:38
6. "Status: Still Thinking" Baron, Royce 6:14
7. "Theme for Silence" (instrumental) Baron 1:32
8. "Paralyzed, Mesmerized" Baron 8:07
9. "Grin (Nails Hurt)" Baron 7:21
10. "Host" Baron 8:24

Total length: 57:47

Recording information:

Recorded at Greenwood Studios, Nunningen, Switzerland, from February - April 1993.

Mixed at Morrisound Recording, Tampa, FL.

Mastered at Future Disc, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Produced by Coroner.

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