The Price of Progression is the third full-length album by the New Jersey, U.S. band, Ensign.

Ensign had emerged from a period of personnel turmoil to record this album and it was left to the bass guitarist and main songwriter, Nate Gluck, to also take on the guitar work.

The result was a more refined offering which moved sufficiently away from hardcore punk to be recognised[by whom?]

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.