Michigan is known as The Great Lakes State or The Wolverine State and is well known for the major automobile companies, its famous university and Detroit Pistons. Michigan was also the home of Fury, a band that was an excellent example of how five youngsters could create a quality band, deeply inspired by their music heroes. The band who went on for five years only managed to release a six track self titled cassette EP back in 1993 and a few years later decided to change name to The Anvil Chorous. The Mechanical Regimes album has been put together with the help of drummer and founding member Ronnie Lee Pasquale and it managed to collect 11 songs which explore the band's six years of activity both under the Fury moniker and later as The Anvil Chorus. This is a collection of over 50 minutes of quality U.S. Prog Power, highly recommended for fans of the Fates Warning. Fury established in 1990 in DeWitt, Michigan, and when they recorded the Fury EP in Napoleon, Ohio they were still in the age of graduating high school. After graduating their manager decided to move the band to Phoenix, Arizona. They played gigs everywhere in Phoenix, opening for their heroes Fates Warning, Dream Theater, Megadeth and many more. For the next two years the band palyed almost in every possible place in Arizona but success wouldn't hit their doors. Fury had the quality to become a bigger name. Their singer Voltaire Andrews had a sweet and warm voice bringing in mind the great Ray Alder. The song writing was tight and solid, based on melodic structures and progressive touches here and there, while the guitars were strong enough when it was necessary. It may not be a must buy release but it is decent and worth exploring especially if you are a Fates Warning devotee, even though Fury isn't definitely a clone of them, and I mean that folks!
