The State of Mind Report
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The State of Mind Report is the seventh studio album by Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 thrash metal
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 band Acid Drinkers
Acid Drinkers
Acid Drinkers are Polish thrash metal band formed in September 1986 in Poznań. Acid Drinkers were formed on September 21, 1986 consisting of Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki and Robert "Litza" Friedrich . The band's style from back then to present is thrash metal, with influences of heavy metal...

. It was released on April 22, 1996 in Poland through Polton and Warner Music Poland
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...

. The album was recorded from January 22 to February 9, 1996 at Deo Recordings Studio in Wisła, and was mixed at Buffo Studio in Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

. The cover art was created by Litza, Ewa Ludmiła Fedan, Zygmunt Tomala, Paweł Nowicki and fotos by Piotr Stańczak.

Track listing

Bonus Tracks

Personnel

  • Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki - vocal, bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , guitar on track 9
  • Robert "Litza" Friedrich - backing vocal, guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

    , lead vocal on track 4, 8
  • Dariusz "Popcorn" Popowicz - guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Maciej "Ślimak" Starosta - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , backing vocals

  • Music and lyrics - Acid Drinkers (expect "Wild Thing": Chip Taylor
    Chip Taylor
    James Wesley Voight , better known by his stage name as Chip Taylor, is an American songwriter, who is noted for writing the songs "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing." He is the brother of actor Jon Voight and geologist Barry Voight...

     and "Walkway To

Heaven": Litza, Marcin Pospieszalski)
  • Engineered - Adam Toczko, Tomasz Bonarowski
  • Mastering - Grzegorz Piwkowski

  • Lori Wallett - vocal on track 10
  • Steve Wallett - additional vocal on track 10
  • Tomasz Budzyński
    Tomasz Budzynski
    Tomasz Budzyński is Polish musician, painter and poet, the lead vocalist of the band Armia.He worked with bands 2Tm2,3, Budzy i Trupia Czaszka, he was also first vocalist of punk rock band Siekiera.-With Armia:...

     (Armia
    Armia
    Armia is Polish punk rock and hardcore punk music band founded in 1985 by Tomasz Budzyński, Sławomir Gołaszewski and Robert Brylewski. Armia is famous for its use of horn, which was unusual of punk rock bands in late 1980s and 1990s...

    ) - additional vocal on track 8
  • Darek Malejonek (Houk) - additional vocal on track 8
  • Dariusz Cichor - additional vocal on track 8
  • Dziki - additional vocal on track 8
  • Jacek - additional vocal on track 8
  • The Stawski Orchestra track 10
  • Michał Kulenty - flue
    Flue
    A flue is a duct, pipe, or chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, furnace, water heater, boiler, or generator to the outdoors. In the United States, they are also known as vents and for boilers as breeching for water heaters and modern furnaces...

     on track 10
  • Marcin Pospieszalski - bass
    Double bass
    The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

     and violins
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

     on track 10

Release history

Year Label Format Country Out of Print? Notes
1996 Polton, Warner Music Poland
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...

CD Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

Yes Original CD and LP release
1998 Metal Mind Productions
Metal Mind Productions
Metal Mind Productions is a Polish record label founded in 1987. Currently it is one of the lead independent labels in Poland with over 1000 of licences and over 10 million of data mediums sold. The label focuses mainly on rock and heavy metal genres...

CD Poland Yes CD reissue; bonus tracks
2009 Metal Mind Productions CD Poland No CD reissue; remastered; digipack
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