Chris Hathcock, leader of Charlotte, NC progressive metal act THE RETICENT has issued the following update:

"Been working on refining material and transitional tracks for the next album for a while this evening and it has occurred to me that this album will be the most involved and challenging thing I've ever done musically or conceptually. Now, it does not follow that this will be any 'good' of course, but that it will be the culmination of a lot of work. The entire album is the chronicle of an amalgamation of life experiences that in many ways I've yet to deal with - hence the title Chronology of My Disgrace. This will be a physically and emotionally draining process I can already tell as I will be putting more of myself out there than I have ever done before in any medium. This may all backfire and be catastrophically awful and mark the end of this experiment called The Reticent. I have no idea. I only know that I feel like I, for lack of a better term, 'need' to record this album (as foolish as that may sound). If only to free myself of burdens that have haunted me for a long while now. In many ways this will be the angriest The Reticent has ever sounded and in some ways the most sorrowful. A better way to put it is that it will be the most honest and exposed I've ever been. I hope the album will take you with me and that it will make you feel something. I know The Reticent isn't very popular but I remain humbled and grateful that anyone pays attention to this. I've never deserved your support and will cherish it always. Anyway, no one reads these long things anyhow. Chronology of My Disgrace coming soon."