A Thin Shell is the third full release of the death/doom metal band October Tide. It is released 11 years after Grey Dawn and with only remaining founder member Fredrik Norrman.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Alex Henderson awarded the album 4 stars stating "A dark, somber, melancholy atmosphere prevails throughout this 42-minute CD, which combines elements of doom metal, death metal, and black metal. Vocally, A Thin Shell is consistently extreme; death metal's Cookie Monster growl and black metal's sinister rasp are equally prominent, and clean vocals are nowhere to be found. But musically, A Thin Shell isn't so extreme. For all its heaviness and aggression, A Thin Shell is actually quite musical and nuanced compared to most of the extreme metal that has come out of Scandinavia... In other words, A Thin Shell is death metal/black metal vocally but doom metal musically.".[2]
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