Neal Morse (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards), Mike Portnoy (drums, vocals), Randy George (bass), Bill Hubauer (keyboards, vocals), Eric Gillette (guitars, vocals) ? will take fans on The Great Adventure with their latest double concept album due out January 25th, 2019 on Radiant Records via Metal Blade worldwide.

It will be available in three formats: a two CD package, two CD/DVD Special Edition featuring behind-the-scenes video clips of the making of the album, and three vinyl LPs. Pre-orders begin December 4th.

The follow-up to 2016's critically acclaimed The Similitude Of A Dream, which critics hailed as "a masterpiece," will be the ninth studio album with Morse, Portnoy and George, and the third as a true collaboration with this current lineup. Together, Morse and Portnoy have launched four bands, but the one that has endured the longest and thus with the most musical output has been The Neal Morse Band.





As Neal Morse explains, "This band continues to amaze me! I have to say it was a little daunting to follow up The Similitude Of A Dream as it was such a special album and it delivered every night at our concerts, but I believe that The Great Adventure will have a tremendous impact as well. This new double album is everything that I hoped it would be! I listened through last night and I was in tears at the end!"

Mike Portnoy emphatically agrees. He says: "How do you follow an epic double concept album? Well, create another epic double concept album! Hahaha. I always knew topping The Similitude Of A Dream was going to be difficult, if not impossible, as I held it in such high regard, but alas, I am absolutely blown away with what we achieved here! We've created what is the ultimate companion to TSOAD."

True to the album's title, the creative process was indeed a "great adventure." Unlike many previous Morse albums, which have often been written and arranged within weeks, this time around these prolific and world-class musicians spent almost a year working on the end result, producing an abundance of top quality material. This meant some ruthless decision-making: some already completed songs and characters had to go, and -with studio time running out-new links and ideas were being composed and recorded up to the eleventh hour. "A lot of work and re-work has gone into this," says Morse, "but I know that some of the most successful and far-reaching albums I've been involved with have been just like that. Sola Scriptura and Spock's Beard's Snow album come to mind."

Another key question that had to be addressed in the studio was how to pull all the ideas together into a coherent whole. In the end, what unlocked this "adventure" for Morse was the realization that The Great Adventure needed a new voice and perspective. This time, it is that of the Pilgrim's abandoned son, a younger, perhaps angrier, voice than was heard on The Similitude Of A Dream.

Neal Morse will bring the album to fans worldwide with a new round of headlining tour dates, which begin February 3rd, 2019 in Nashville at City Winery.

Shows:

Sat 2/2 Nashville, TN City Winery
Sun 2/3 Tampa, FL The Ritz (Cruise To The Edge Pre-Cruise Party)
Mon 2/4 Tampa, FL Cruise To The Edge 2019 (through February 9)
Sun 2/10 Atlanta, GA City Winery
Mon 2/11 Charlotte, NC Neighborhood Theatre
Tue 2/12 Baltimore, MD Soundstage
Wed 2/13 Jersey City, NJ White Eagle Hall
Fri 2/15 Boston, MA The Sinclair
Sat 2/16 Philadelphia, PA Keswick Theatre
Sun 2/17 Westbury NY The Space at Westbury
Mon 2/18 Montréal, QUE. Club Soda
Tue 2/19 Quebec City, QUE. Salle Sylvain Lelievre
Thu 2/21 Toronto, ONT. Opera House
Fri 2/22 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls Theatre
Sat 2/23 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom
Sun 2/24 Detroit, MI The Crofoot Ballroom
Tue 2/26 St. Charles, IL Arcada Theatre
Wed 2/27 St. Louis, MO Delmar Hall
Thu 2/28 Dallas, TX Gas Monkey Live
Fri 3/1 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre
Sat 3/2 Denver, CO Summit Music Hall
Tue 3/5 Seattle, WA The Triple Door
Wed 3/6 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
Thu 3/7 San Francisco, CA Slim's
Fri 3/8 Whittier, CA The Whittier Center Theatre
Sat 3/9 Chandler, AZ Bogle Theatre (Chandler Center For The Arts)

Sun 3/24 London, United Kingdom, Islington Assembly Hall
Mon 3/25 Paris, France, The Alhambra
Tue 3/26 Tilburg, Netherlands, O13
Wed 3/27 Esch /Alzette, Luxembourg, Rockhal Esch Sur Alzette
Fri 3/29 Koln, Germany, Kantine
Sat 3/30 Copenhagen, Denmark, Viften
Sun 3/31 Gothenburg, Sweden, Stora Teatern
Mon 4/1 Stockholm, Sweden, Skandiascenen
Wed 4/3 Berlin, Germany, Heimathafen
Thu 4/4 Hamburg, Germany, Markthalle
Fri 4/5 Leipzig, Germany, Halle d / Werk 2
Sat 4/6 Warsaw, Poland, Progresja
Sun 4/7 Brno, Czech Republic, SONO Music Club
Tue 4/9 Munich, Germany, Technikum
Wed 4/10 Pratteln, Switzerland, Z7 Konzertfabrik
Thu 4/11 Lyon, France, C.C.O.
Fri 4/12 Trezzo sull'Adda MI, Italy, Live Club
Sat 4/13 Barcelona, Spain, Salamandra 1
Sun 4/14 Madrid, Spain, Sala Mon

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