Neal Morse Band: With a collection of unrelated individual songs…..

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Neal Morse Band recently announced their much-anticipated fourth studio album Innocence & Danger, to be released on August 27th, 2021. Today, the band are sharing the first single and video from the album for the opening track Do It All Again. 

Mike Portnoy says this about the track, «This was the first song we wrote when we reconvened for the sessions for this album. It rooted from an idea Bill Hubauer brought in and we built off it from there. Like most NMB songs, I love the sharing of lead vocals…Neal Morse on the verses, Bill on the B section and an amazingly catchy 3-part harmony chorus with Eric Gillette taking the lead».

Neal Morse Band (NHB) are pleased to announce the release of their much-anticipated fourth studio album Innocence & Danger on August 27th, 2021.

With NMB’s previous two releases being concept albums, it’s perhaps remarkable that Innocence & Danger is a series of unrelated songs, but drummer Mike Portnoy says «After two sprawling back to back double concept albums in a row, it was refreshing to get back to writing a collection of unrelated individual songs in the vein of our first album».

«Indeed, making this album came easy to the band; while the initial inspiration came particularly from Bill Hubauer (keyboards) and Randy George (bass), the ideas flowed from everybody from there on, as George recalls: “I am excited about the level of collaboration that we achieved on this one. We even went in with a lot of ideas that weren’t necessarily developed, and I think in the end we have something that represents the best of everybody in the band».

 «In fact – like its two acclaimed predecessors – Innocence & Danger is a double album by inspiration, rather than design», as Portnoy explains: «As much as we wanted to try and keep it to a single album after having just done two double albums, we wrote so much material that we found ourselves with our third double album in a row! That’s pretty prog!».

«There is also plenty in Innocence & Danger to excite those prog fans who have a thirst for epics», as Neal Morse explains: «There’s one half hour epic and another that’s about 20 minutes long. I really didn’t realise that they were that long when we were recording them, which I guess is great because if a movie is really good, you don’t realize that it’s three hours long! But there are also some shorter songs: some have poppier elements, some are heavier and some have three part acoustic sections. I’m excited about all of it, really».

The album will be released as a Limited 2CD+DVD Digipak (featuring a Making Of documentary), 3LP+2CD Boxset, Standard 2CD Jewelcase & Digital Album, featuring artwork by Thomas Ewerhard (Transatlantic).

The full track-listing is below:

CD 1 (Innocence):

1.Do It All Again 08:55

2.Bird On A Wire 07:22

3.Your Place In The Sun 04:12

4.Another Story To Tell 04:50

5.The Way It Had To Be 07:14

6.Emergence 03:12

7.Not Afraid Pt. 1 04:53

8.Bridge Over Troubled Water 08:08

CD 2 (Danger):

1.Not Afraid Pt. 2 19:32

2.Beyond The Years 31:22

The Neal Morse Band (now NMB) was formed in 2012, featuring long-time collaborators Neal Morse (vocals, keyboards and guitars), Mike Portnoy (drums, vocals) and Randy George (bass), as well as Bill Hubauer (keyboards, vocals) and Eric Gillette (guitars, vocals). The band’s first album, The Grand Experiment, showed both a freshness and maturity that was further developed in 2016’s The Similitude Of A Dream, 2019’s The Great Adventure and 2021’s Innocence & Danger.

Neal Morse Band is:

Neal Morse (vocals, keyboards and guitars)

Mike Portnoy (drums, vocals)

Randy George (bass)

Eric Gillette (guitars, vocals)

Bill Hubauer (keyboards, vocals)

Europe 2022

May 28th – Madrid, Spain – Teatro Kapital

May 29th – Barcelona, Spain – Apolo

May 30th – Milan, Italy – Live Club

May 31st – Pratteln, Switzerland – Z7

June 2nd – Tilburg, Netherlands – 013

June 3rd – London, England – Shepherds Bush Empire

June 4th – Paris, France – Trianon

June 5th – Esch Sur Alzette, Luxembourg – Rockhal –

June 7th – Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall

June 9th – Brno, Czech Republic – Sono

June 10th – Krakow, Poland – Studio Club

June 11th – Warsaw, Poland – Progresja

June 13th – Hamburg, Germany – Markthalle

June 15th – Copenhagen, Denmark – Amager Bio

June 16th – Gothenburg, Sweden – Pustervik

June 17th – Oslo, Norway – Cosmopolite

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