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Discipline. Matthew Parmenter - Strung Out Records

The members of Discipline. originally met as high school students in Royal Oak, Michigan in 1985. They gained a following in the Detroit area partly because they performed challenging, original music, and partly due to their strange live shows. Lead singer, Matthew Parmenter, delivered each song in a different costume behind a thick coat of mime’s makeup. Their studio release, Unfolded Like Staircase (1997), features Jon Preston Bouda on guitar, Mathew Kennedy on bass, and Paul Dzendzel on drums.

Unfolded Like Staircase boasts three fifteen-minute songs including Canto IV (Limbo), as well as a twenty-two minute epic entitled Into the Dream.

It seems 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. an unflinching anti-commercialism and dedication to songwriting. Once eschewed by Discipline., the “progressive” moniker is now an accepted label used to distinguish this band from the bulk of popular commercial music.

After the release of their first CD, Push & Profit (1993), Discipline. played numerous shows throughout the U.S., sharing bills with new and established artists such as Ozric Tentacles, Steve Howe of Yes, Anekdoten, and Echolyn. Discipline. has been featured on radio shows in Europe and North and South America, and the band flew to Norway for a mini-tour at the request of a Norwegian college. Unfolded Like Staircase and Push & Profit are released on the band’s independent label, Strung Out Records. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.