Track By Tracks: State Of Mind - Sanity Of Madness (2025)

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

A collection of stories about Renefield, Anger, Jesus, Vikings, a Poster, and those who are taken away too soon

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

1. The Masters Coming… Is entirely about Dracula's little sidekick Renfield. 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 off the Sanity of Madness EP.

2. 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.

3. Mourning Star… This 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 90s. 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.

4. Shine… 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 90s. 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

5. Wizard…This 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 on that poster. And the wizard was on top of a rainbow with his arm reaching out in angst because "no one listens".

6. Sail Across The Ocean (SATO)...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".