Discipline Captives Of The Wine Dark Sea (2017)

From Detroit, Michigan, Discipline return for their fifth studio album, Captives of the Wine Dark Sea, released on their new label Laser’s Edge. The album is held to seven tracks which add up to a perfectly paced forty-five minutes, veteran producer Terry Brown (Rush, Fate’s Warning) providing a mix which keeps the instruments clear and identifiable with a good balance, accompanied by top quality performances from the entire band. Captives Of The Wine Dark Sea is a thoughtfully created piece of work, a fine example of modern progressive music and another excellent addition to Discipline’s canon of work.

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.”

The first Discipline studio CD moves quickly from delicate to demented. Singer Matthew Parmenter establishes pretty melodies over lyrics about uncomfortable and, at times, disturbing subjects. This is a good record and worth your attention, especially if you like older Genesis and do not mind the tension inherent in King Crimsons music. The name of the band might be like the eighties Crimson incarnation, the music is definitely different, more romantic, more melodic and not as neurotic.

Unfolded Like Staircase boasts three nearly fifteen-minute songs including the brilliant Canto IV (Limbo), as well as a twenty-two minute epic entitled Into the Dream. Discipline has become a mainstay of the international underground movement known as progressive rock. A few dozen radio shows around the world, and an equal number of prog-oriented publications have found in Discipline. and singer Matthew Parmenter an unflinching anti-commercialism and dedication to songwriting.

At last we are privileged to bring you this superb double live set from one of our favourite groups. By going through their collection of live concerts we have been able to chose the best performances which include all their classics together with unreleased rare versions and unrecorded tracks exclusive to this release. All are taken from top quality recordings and then mastered for brilliant sound quality. Close your eyes and the band are there in the room with you.

Detroit's premiere progressive rock band Discipline presents To Shatter All Accord. All new studio recordings, including the 24-minute Rogue, a psychedelic song-suite staged as theatrical drama. To Shatter All Accord features the Discipline. lineup that recorded the unparalleled Unfolded Like Staircase (Matthew Parmenter, Jon Preston Bouda, Mathew Kennedy, Paul Dzendzel). As on that classic release, the Discipline. of To Shatter All Accord makes no apologies. The band has once again reinvented itself with a unique sound and vision.

This special edition DVD includes an extra hour of live footage spanning the band's career from shows in 1988, 1992, 1997, and a rare 1998 performance of the 20-minute song suite Into the Dream.

Discipline's singer and main songwriter plays guitars, drums, saxophone, violin, piano, mellotron… everything but the bass. This is an album of beautiful haunting melodies, delivered with emotional vocals; at times it appears to have a slight melancholy, although there are signs of positivity throughout.