Pre-order starts today / Tour Dates revealed for US and Europe
NMB 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.”
Watch the video for “Do It All Again,” created by Christian Rios:
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.”
‘Innocence & Danger’, featuring artwork by Thomas Ewerhard (Transatlantic), will be available as:
• Limited 2CD+DVD Digipak (featuring a Making Of documentary)
• Standard 2CD Jewelcase
• Digital Album
• 3LP+ 2CD Boxset
And is available for pre-order now here:
https://thenealmorseband.lnk.to/InnocenceAndDanger
NMB are also happy to announce tour dates for ‘An Evening of Innocence & Danger’ across US and Europe.
USA 2021
Oct 8th & 9th – Cross Plains, TN – Morsefest 2021 – www.radiantrecords.com
Oct 12th – Seattle, WA – The Triple Door – https://tickets.thetripledoor.net/eventperformances.asp?evt=1830
Oct 14th – St Charles, IL – The Arcada – https://www.etix.com/ticket/v/12589
Oct 15th – Pontiac, MI – The Crofoot Ballroom – https://www.ticketweb.com/event/the-neal-morse-band-the-crofoot-ballroom-tickets/11136425?pl=crofoot
Oct 16th – Ft Wayne, IN – Pieres – https://www.etix.com/ticket/v/18520/pieres-entertainment-center
Oct 17th – Cleveland, OH – The Beachland Ballroom – https://www.ticketweb.com/event/the-neal-morse-band-an-beachland-ballroom-tickets/11128265?pl=beachland
Oct 19th – Glenside, PA – The Keswick Theater – https://www.axs.com/events/405348/the-neal-morse-band-tickets
Oct 20th – Baltimore, MD – Soundstage – https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/15005ACE0DA1334C
Oct 21st – Boston, MA – The Sinclair – https://www.axs.com/events/405764/the-neal-morse-band-tickets?skin=sinclair
Oct 22nd – New York City, NY – The Sony Theater – https://www.ticketmaster.com/sony-hall-tickets-new-york/venue/1475
Europe 2022
May 28th – Madrid, Spain – Teatro Kapital
https://www.madnesslive.es/es/inicio/726-neal-morse-band-featuring-mike-portnoy-madrid.html
May 29th – Barcelona, Spain – Apolo
https://www.madnesslive.es/es/inicio/727-neal-morse-band-featuring-mike-portnoy-barcelona.html
May 30th – Milan, Italy – Live Club
http://www.vertigo.co.it/it/neal-morse-band
May 31st – Pratteln, Switzerland – Z7
http://www.z-7.ch/event.php?eventid=1908
June 2nd – Tilburg, Netherlands – 013
https://shop.eventix.io/1d82d0a4-563c-44ca-96c9-302a843e7abc/tickets
June 3rd – London, England – Shepherds Bush Empire
https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/1F005AD083C7358E
June 4th – Paris, France – Trianon
https://www.letrianon.fr/fr/programme/the-neal-morse-band
June 5th – Esch Sur Alzette, Luxembourg – Rockhal – https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/6465213/neal-morse-band-eschalzette-rockhal-luxembourg
June 7th – Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall
https://www.myticket.de/de/hank-von-hell-live-2022-tickets/
June 9th – Brno, Czech Republic – Sono
https://goout.net/cs/an-evening-of-innocence-and-danger-2022-the-neal-morse-band/szrjjlr/
June 10th – Krakow, Poland – Studio Club
https://rockserwis.pl/products/215847
June 11th – Warsaw, Poland – Progresja
https://sklep.knockoutprod.net/pl/eventinfo/399/neal-morse-band
June 13th – Hamburg, Germany – Markthalle
https://www.myticket.de/de/hank-von-hell-live-2022-tickets/
June 15th – Copenhagen, Denmark – Amager Bio
https://www.ticketmaster.dk/event/AMA1506A?language=da-dk
June 16th – Gothenburg, Sweden – Pustervik
https://www.tickster.com/sv/events/wyvkch5k9kl4hcb
June 17th – Oslo, Norway – Cosmopolite
https://hurumrock.no/konserter.html
June 18th – Stockholm, Sweden – Lilla Cirkus
https://www.ticketmaster.se/event/595757?
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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 realize 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.”
NMB (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)