News: DISCIPLINE: Long-Running Detroit Prog Kings Sign With Laser's Edge For Release Of Captives Of The Wine Dark Sea

Laser's Edge confirms the signing of Detroit's long-running progressive rock kings DISCIPLINE, for the June release of their newly-completed fifth studio full-length, Captives Of The Wine Dark Sea.

 

DISCIPLINE has performed and recorded together since 1987, and remains one of the top bands in the American progressive rock scene. The band's current lineup, including drummer Paul Dzendzel, bassist Mathew Kennedy, lead guitarist Chris Herin (Tiles), and vocalist/keyboardist Matthew Parmenter, worked with veteran music producer Terry Brown(Rush, Fate's Warning) for the mixing of their newest opus, Captives Of The Wine Dark Sea, which Parmenter describes as, "an escape to ameliorate the workaday world."

 

Laser's Edge owner Ken Golden relays, "I've been a fan of DISCIPLINE's music since their first release. The band long ago established themselves as one of the finest American progressive rock bands. It's an honor to finally be collaborating with them."

 

Captives Of The Wine Dark Sea will see worldwide release on CD, LP, and digital formats through Laser's Edge in June 2017; stand by for the cover art, audio previews, preorder info, and more onDISCIPLINE to be issued in the coming days.

 

DISCIPLINE will perform at Italy's 2Days Prog+1Festival on September 2nd, and at Chicago'sProgtoberfestin October. Additional tour dates supporting the new album are to be expected.

 

"DISCIPLINE weaves a wicked web of lush, whimsical melodies, cynical stories and melancholy theatrics - so disturbing some fans have pegged lead-man Matthew Parmenter as 'unstable,'" writes Heidi Olmac in Detroit's Orbit newspaper. New Zealand rock critic Kev Rowland describesDISCIPLINE as "one of the most important bands to come out of America in the last twenty-five years." The band's earliest live shows were memorable for unusual theatrics. Parmenter (a.k.a. the Magic Acid Mime) would wear different costumes and act out the songs. Though the costumes have long since gone away, spontaneity remains a hallmark of DISCIPLINE's stage presence. "I think most of it comes from playing live," says Parmenter in The Observer and Eccentric newspaper. "If something goes wrong, it's kind of interesting how you will get out of it."

 

Jeff Milo of Ferndale Friends newspaper writes, "Go online and you'll find various zines, blogs, and sites devoted to 'prog' music sending some substantial love toward Detroit's DISCIPLINE." The band's previous album To Shatter All Accord (2011) includes the twenty-five-minute song suite "Rogue." John Collinge, publisher of Progression Magazine, acknowledged To Shatter All Accord with the publication's highest marks in his review (16 out of 16 stars). The band may be best known for its album Unfolded Like Staircase (1997). With four sprawling epics, including "Canto IV (Limbo)" and "Crutches," Unfolded Like Staircase is considered by some to be one of the best progressive rock albums of the 1990s. In the Dutch Progressive Rock Pages, Brian Watson goes further: "Unfolded is my favourite progressive rock album of all time. In over thirty years of listening, and out of a collection touching fifteen hundred albums, Unfolded Like Staircase is 'the one.'" The CD Push & Profit (1993) introduced Discipline to an international audience supported by a tour of Norway. The band also recorded a virtually unknown first album Chaos Out of Order (1988) that remained out of print for twenty-five years until the band's indie label, Strung Out Records, reissued the recording in 2013.DISCIPLINE has also released three live albums; the This One's for England (2014, 2xCD), Live Days (2010 2xCD on Cyclops/GFT), and Into The Dream (1999 on Syzygy/SOR).

 

DISCIPLINE has appeared at numerous progressive rock festivals In 2012 the band appeared at RoSfest, the Rites Of Spring progressive rock festival in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. That performance can be viewed as an Amazon Instant video. The band has also performed at NEARfest(Northeast Art Rock Festival), Terra Incognita, ProgScape, Orion Studios, and six separate performances atProgDayin Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The band drew praise at UK's Summers End festival in 2015 with reviews declaring Discipline "the band of the weekend."