NMB (Neal Morse Band) have announced that they will be releasing their fourth studio album, entitled "Innocence & Danger", on August 27th, 2021.
The new record will mark a change from the band's previous two efforts as it will feature stand alone tracks, instead of being a concept album. Mike Portnoy explains, "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."
Mike went on to explain how it ended up being a double album, "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!"
Neal Morse also had this to say about the prog nature of the record, "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."
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). See the tracklisting 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
Neal Morse Launches Musicians Having Coffee And Talking About Stuff
Neal Morse Announces Jesus Christ The Exorcist (Live At Morsefest 2018
Neal Morse Shares New Song 'Building A Wall'
Neal Morse Releases 'Seemingly Sincere' Video
Neal Morse Releases 'In The Name Of The Lord' Video
The Neal Morse Band Announce 'The Great Adventour'
The Neal Morse Band Streaming New Song
The Neal Morse Band Streaming New Song
Neal Morse Band Announce 2 CD and 2 DVD Live Set
5 Star: Alan Parsons - From the New World
Hot In The City: Steve Earle- Kings of Thrash (Megadeth)- More
RockPile: Spotlight on Cleopatra Records
Green Day, Maneskin Highlight Final Day Of Lollapalooza 2022
Lollapalooza 2022 - Day Three Report
Blink-182's Travis Barker Returns to Stage Against Doctor's Orders
We Came As Romans Replace Crown The Empire on Trinity Of Terror Tour
Russian Circles Delivers Video For Epic New Song 'Gnosis'
Venom Prison Cover Stampin' Ground's 'Officer Down'
Rory Block Announces New Album Ain't Nobody Worried
Singled Out: Sound Kodz's Open Your Eyes
Chase Rice Shares 'Key West & Colorado' Video
Velvet Chains Share Dean Karr Directed 'Back On The Train' Video