A few days ago, we found out that Neal Morse would be releasing a concept double album, The Similitude Of A Dream, on November 11th on Radiant Records via Metal Blade Records/SONY, clocking in at over 100 minutes. But before that, you can now hear "Long Day/Overture" below via the official lyric video. It's just a taste of the music that the band is really excited about. Expect some prog goodness!







Tracks:

Disc I
01. Long Day
02. Overture
03. The Dream
04. City Of Destruction
05. We Have Got To Go
06. Makes No Sense
07. Draw The Line
08. The Slough
09. Back To The City
10. The Ways Of A Fool
11. So Far Gone
12. Breath Of Angels

Disc II
01. Slave To Your Mind
02. Shortcut To Salvation
03. The Man In The Iron Cage
04. The Road Called Home
05. Sloth
06. Freedom Song
07. I'm Running
08. The Mask
09. Confrontation
10. The Battle
11. Broken Sky / Long Day Reprise

As Neal Morse explains: "The Similitude Of A Dream is loosely and sometimes directly based on the book, Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. The book's original title was The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to the that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, and it was originally published in 1678. The book chronicles the spiritual journey of a man from the City of Destruction to the place of Deliverance. Someone had suggested to me that I do a concept album based on this book, but I kind of forgot about it. Then when I began writing new songs last December, the suggestion came to my mind. I had never read the book, so I Googled the SparkNotes story outline and began to write some little song bits and instrumentals based on what I had read. Those bits combined with the ideas that the other guys brought to the table then miraculously exploded into this double concept album. Funny thing is, this album only really covers about the first 75 or 80 pages. Maybe we should've made a five disc collection! Well, we'll save that for later. Ha."

He continues: "At the conclusion of the grueling recording sessions, I remember Mike saying rather prophetically, 'Boys, I think we just made the album of our careers.'"

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Band profile:	Neal Morse