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Discipline - To Shatter All Accord

SKU Strung Out 6808
This is definitely a cause for celebration. In their heyday (let's say the mid to late 90s), Discipline were an amazingly great US band who performed dark symphonic rock. Led by vocalist/composer/keyboardist Matthew Parmenter, the focus is always on him and his vocal and compositional and lyrical talents. Having said that, the band were a tremendous outfit; as important as Matthew is to the group, so is guitarist Jon Preston Bouda, bassist Matthew Kennedy and drummer Paul Dzendzel, all of whom play really excellently and add the perfect accompaniment to transform Matthew's songs into full blown masterpieces of dynamic, dark, moody rock. The group seemed on the verge of breaking big when they fell apart around 2000. Sometime about 7 years later, the original four got back together again, playing shows and working on new material and, finally, we get to hear the results here. It's an extremely strong release and shows them, once again, at the top of the heap as far as US progressive/symphonic bands go. Great compositions with a lot of drama, intensity flair and lightness and shade. The sound is a bit different than their masterpiece from 15 (!!) years ago, Unfolded Like Staircase, but equally great. Matthew - as he did before - adds bits on violin and sax which are really clever and add to the over-all sound and the band is their usual wonderful selves. This is as good as it gets, folks. Highly recommended.



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