{{Infobox album| | name = A Thin Shell | type = studio | artist = October Tide | cover = October Tide A Thin Shell Album Front Cover.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2010|9|28|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://octobertide.net/Releases.html|title=October Tide Releases|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623034741/http://octobertide.net/Releases.html|archivedate=June 23, 2012|accessdate=November 3, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> | recorded = March 2009 – March 2010 | venue = | studio = Black Lounge and Abyss Studios | genre = Death-doom | length = {{Duration|m=42|s=14}} | label = Candlelight | producer = Jonas Kjellgren | prev_title = Grey Dawn | prev_year = 1999 | next_title = Tunnel of No Light | next_year = 2013 }}

{{Album reviews | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Henderson |first=Alex |url=http://allmusic.com/album/a-thin-shell-r1961467 |title=A Thin Shell - October Tide |publisher=AllMusic |date=28 September 2010 |accessdate=12 March 2012}}</ref> | noprose = yes }}

'''''A Thin Shell''''' is the third studio album by Swedish death-doom band October Tide. This was the first album the band released in 11 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://octobertide.net/Biography.html|title=October Tide Biography|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313140303/http://octobertide.net/Biography.html|archivedate=March 13, 2012|accessdate=November 3, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> This is the only October Tide release with vocalist Tobias Netzell.

==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_lyrics = Tobias Netzell and Pierre Stam | all_music = Fredrik Norrman and October Tide | title1 = The Custodian of Science | length1 = 7:33 | title2 = Deplorable Request | length2 = 6:03 | title3 = A Nighttime Project | note3 = instrumental | length3 = 4:32 | title4 = Blackness Devours | length4 = 5:15 | title5 = The Dividing Line | length5 = 5:43 | title6 = Fragile | length6 = 6:35 | title7 = Scorned | length7 = 6:33 | total_length = 42:14 }}

==Personnel== ;October Tide *Tobias Netzell&nbsp;– vocals *Fredrik Norrman&nbsp;– guitar *Robin Bergh&nbsp;– drums

;Additional personnel *Jonas Kjellgren&nbsp;– session bass, mixing, production *Jeramie Kling&nbsp;– engineering *Plec&nbsp;– mastering (at Panic-Room) *Mattias Norrman&nbsp;– photography *Andreas Kalén&nbsp;– photo editing *Travis Smith&nbsp;– artwork, layout

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