Proggers rejoice because Neal Morse is about to release its ambitious new album The Grand Experiment on the 16th of February 2015 with a European tour for March 2015. The full list of dates can be found below. Now they have revealed the new artwork and all the details. Who is excited to hear this?




The tracklist for the main album is as follows:

01. Following The Call
02. The Grand Experiment
03. Waterfall
04. Agenda
05. Alive Again

For the first time ever, prog icon Neal Morse came into a recording session with his long-time friend and collaborator Mike Portnoy, Randy George, Bill Hubauer and Eric Gillette...with nothing. He had no prepared material at all.

Neal comments: "I wanted to see what it would be like to create freely in the room with no preconceived notions. It was quite a risk! I used to be rather paranoid about whether things would turn out in the short space of time we had available...so I would fill all the space in advance! I made a lot of room for the other guys to create and express themselves and the result is outstanding! We wanted to experiment, do something a bit different, and see what everyone is capable of...we found out...in SPADES!"

The Grand Experiment will be available as:

2CD & DVD Special edition digipak featuring a bonus disc of unreleased studio and live tracks plus a 'Making Of' DVD

180g LP + 2CD featuring the full standard album on CD plus the bonus CD

Standard edition jewel case CD

Swedish progressive rockers Beardfish will support on all dates.

Shows:

5/03/15 - Z7, Pratteln, Switzerland
6/03/15 - De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
7/03/15 - Islington Assembly Hall, London
8/03/15 - Spirit of 66, Verviers, Belgium
9/03/15 - Divan du Monde, Paris, France
11/03/15 - Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany
12/03/15 - Alte Seilerei, Mannheim, Germany
13/03/15 - Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
14/05/15 - Matrix, Bochum, Germany

Source:	insideoutmusic.com
Band profile:	Neal Morse