The Price of Progression (Ensign album)
The Price of Progression is the third full-length album from New Jersey, U.S. band Ensign. It follows on from the 1999 release of "Cast the First Stone" and was recorded in November - December 2000 for an April 2001 release on Indecision Records. Overview. Ensign had emerged from a period of personnel turmoil to record this album and it was left to the bassist and main songwriter, Nate Gluck, to also take up the job of the guitarwork. The result was a more refined offering which moved sufficiently away from hardcore punk to be  recognised in the same circle as some metalcore bands while still retaining the theatrical restraint and lyrical ethics of the hardcore genre. The songs were still short, although many were nearer the three-minute mark than ever before – resulting in the band's longest album ever – but they had more structure and melodic elements than material on either "Cast the First Stone" or "Direction of Things to Come".