New Found Glory delay album release

New Found Glory took to social media this week to announce that they have moved the release of their forthcoming album, Forever + Ever x Infinity, to June 19. The album was originally slated to be released on May 29 via Hopeless Records.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, New Found Glory decided to push back the release date to keep fans from venturing out to stores to purchase physical copies of the album.

The band also announced in their statement that their forthcoming summer North American tour with Simple Plan and Knuckle Puck is likely to be postponed as well. The bands are currently working on rescheduling dates and “hope to have news to share with you soon.”

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Hey everyone! We wanted to let you know that we are pushing the release date for our new album back to June 19th. Aside from the fact it’s Record Store Day, we feel this is all around the best and most responsible thing to do and here’s why. Though many of you buy records online or listen to them on your streaming services, there is still a large portion of our fans that want and love that record buying experience. With all the different vinyl exclusives on this new album as well as the Target exclusive, we feel that the original date is too soon to encourage you to go to a store amidst all the social distancing. Your safety is our number one priority and we don’t want to be counterproductive in the war against COVID-19. We hope June 19th is a safer time that will give us all a chance to help out independent record stores when they start to re-open. In addition to that, we know a lot of you have been asking about our upcoming tour with Simple Plan. We are also working on rescheduling that tour and hope to have news to share with you soon. We are just waiting to have a better understanding on when and how states will be re-opening and when concerts will be able to resume. But please rest assured that tour will happen at some point and we appreciate your patience as we navigate this difficult time. Thank you so much for the long time NFG support and we can’t wait to see you all very soon!

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New Found Glory has released a series of songs from the forthcoming album including “Shook By Your Shaved Head,” “Nothing To Say” and “Greatest Of All Time.”

Fans can still pre-order Forever + Ever x Infinity here.

Photo by Acacia Evans