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State of Mind

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I have a alot of the Elegy songs from each album they are all good like the other reviewers have said it takes a few listens to really get into them. Excellent musicianship, production and songwriting. If your into Vanden Plas, Threshold etc..you'll like Elegy!

Elegy is way underrated and unknown to the progressive genre world.. Fans of progressive metal must pick State Of Mind up. I stumbled upon Ian Parry's vocals from Consortium Project 3 : Terra Incognita. He has a powerful and melodic vocal lines. From there I went on to purchase CP 2 and 1. So I would have the complete set. I was thrilled to own all 3 cds as all 3 are superb progressive metal albums. Then I also did a little bit of historical identification. Ian Parry was from Elegy!!! And I went ahead and purchase 4 albums.. State Of Mind, Principles Of Pain, Manifestation Of Fear and Forbidden Fruit. Elegy is not those kind of Prog Band for anyone to liked the very 1st time they listen to their songs. It is progressive alright with tons of odd times signatures and displacement of rhythm and drum beats. You have to constantly listen again and again so that it shines out. From the first time when you listen to it.. you know these guys are awesome with their instrumentation technique, skills and their song arrangement. You loved it but you just couldn't grasp the structure of the song just yet. It leaves you wanting to listen more and more each time you finished the entire disc. Elegy is a band with sound musicians and musical abilities written all over their songs. I have been listening to all 4 albums tons of times and have yet to grasp every single song because of the odd song structure....It is hard to even play their songs..... My high recommendation is those 4 albums...You need to check thes guys out because you will missed out a whole lot if you don't. Think you know what progressive metal is?? Think again!!! Elegy is another whole level of progressive metal. Challenge yourself and see you could digest ELEGY!!!

When I first heard this album I was rather sceptical. Being an Elegy fan from the early days, I did not care for the new singer Ian Parry. Although he is perhaps ten times as good as the guy they had before, he just couldn't write vocal melodies in the same way. However, having listened to it a couple of times it started to grow. It is a very good album and Ian's voice is great. Check out song no. 3 "Trust" it's a killer!