Track By Tracks: Stāte øf Mīnd - Sanity Of Madness (2025)

The first track "The Masters Coming" Is entirely about Dracula's little sidekick kick Renefield. This has a killer feel as well as an awesome bass line from our bassist Kenny Thomas. The drums by Kenny Starnes and the guitar work by Robbie Grossheim and John Cook bring the power of good old-school metal to your ears. One of my favorites is the Sanity of Madness EP.

The next track is Dead. This is just an angry hard-driving rocker all the way. Once again driving guitars and bass, along with the drive of the drums keeps your head banging. Tapping into everyone's frustration and the feeling of slaving to live just to feel dead inside. The lyrics describe someone who's been knocked down, on the edge, and tired. The chorus is his breaking point. Self-induced nightmares from drugs and alcohol, life spinning out of control, dark thoughts…. It happens all too often.

The next track is our first attempt at a Christian metal ballad. This song was written by Robbie Grossheim (Guitars/founding member), and John Ferris (Lyricist/ Vocalist, founding member). We wrote this song in the late 90's. Our new members, Kenny Starnes, Kenny Thomas, and John Cook, really did an excellent job in giving the song the power it deserves. The song is about the man, son, brother Jesus. As a human, he had to feel human feelings, and had to have human doubt regardless of his knowledge of the events to unfold in his future. This song is about Jesus' State of Mind as a man. When he saw the star at his birth, he knew it was a sign of mourning.

This track is called Shine. This is our happy song with dark lyrics. This has a very happy sound with Robbie on the acoustic guitar followed by a giant hook that will stay in your head from John Cook. The song is about missing, neglected, and abused children. The first verse is about the ghost of a little girl, dressed like a fairy princess, standing in the shadows of a graveyard, remembering the end of her life. In the second verse, she goes to check on her mom who's grief-stricken over her daughter's death and is in the process of ending her life. "Fairy screams while you are weeping, life is fleeting as you're torn away…." This song definitely has a huge hook and is very fun, but dark in essence.

The next track Wizard was written as an in-your-face jam, hard-hitting and full of energy. The story of the song is taken from a poster we had hanging in the jam room at the time. In my wild days, during a self-induced psychedelic experience at practice, I looked at that poster and wrote about it. everything in the song was in that poster. And the wizard was on top of a rainbow with his arm reaching out in angst because "no one listens".

This track Sail Across the Ocean, (SATO) really has an old-school metal vibe. The music is powerful and has a familiar feel. the drums and bass really push the energy of the guitars. The song is about an oarsman, (slave), on a Viking warship. Telling his tale as a slave to the warlord and complacent to his will regardless of the cost. "They take us out to conquer, that which is not ours. They take us out to kill and rape and take no prisoners"