The trek will celebrate the band’s iconic Catalyst album

Pop punk rockers New Found Glory are celebrating 20 years of their 2004 album Catalyst with a two-leg North American Tour that will see the group perform the album in full. The Catalyst 20 Years Later Tour kicks off on August 16th in Orlando and features special guests Sincere Engineer as support.

“Fans trust us because of albums like Catalyst,” guitarist Chad Gilbert says proudly. “We can make these records and branch out creatively, and they know we’re never going to do something really weird. We are who we are, and I love that we can play whatever and still crush it.”

Pre-sale tickets and VIP packages are available now with the general on sale beginning on Friday, March 15th.

By the time New Found Glory had broken through with the release of their third album, 2002’s Sticks & Stones, they were well on their way to a permanent place on pop-punk’s Mount Rushmore thanks to an inimitable blend of punk-rock ethos, hardcore energy, and razor-sharp melodicism. Smash singles “Hit Or Miss” and “My Friends Over You” had launched a thousand garage bands, even inspiring up-and-coming acts to crib their names from NFG’s lyrics, but it was 2004’s Catalyst that cemented the Coral Springs, Florida, legends as not just one of the most influential pop-punk bands ever, but a mainstream power player as well.

Louder, darker and heavier than its predecessors, Catalyst marked the sound of the band (guitarist Chad Gilbert, vocalist Jordan Pundik, bassist Ian Grushka, and drummer Cyrus Bolooki) pushing back at what was expected of them, sidestepping the natural inclination to slow down and mellow out – and, in the process, becoming more popular than ever.

This new direction was evident from the album’s opening strains: the white-hot hardcore “Intro” that pulled no punches in its critiques of the music industry (“It’s more than a T-shirt, it’s more than a tattoo/It’s more than a phase, this is how I was raised”) into first single “All Downhill From Here,” which showcased a more muscular, riff-forward sound for the band that ironically became a staple on MTV’s TRL, where it was so popular it had to be retired and pulled from rotation.

The legacy of Catalyst – and New Found Glory as a whole – is in this sort of juxtaposition, the band’s effortless ability to Trojan Horse their more rough-hewn influences into anthemic, hooky offerings. One minute, they’re launching four-on-the-floor Cars-era new wave (“Failure’s Not Flattering”), high-octane skate punk (“Truth Of My Youth”) and ascendant string-laden balladry (“I Don’t Wanna Know”), the next they’re welcoming cameos from members of hardcore legends Madball and H2O and trading in double-bass breakdowns (“At Least I’m Known For Something”) and smoky, minor-key dynamism (“Ending In Tragedy”).

All of this combined to propel the Neal Avron-produced set to a career-best No. 3 on the Billboard 200, promptly going gold and launching the band into arenas supporting Green Day along with their first live DVD, This Disaster. Two decades later, it’s easy to hear the album’s influence not just on the pop-punk genre writ large, but New Found Glory’s career trajectory. From the warm hue of Catalyst‘s follow-up, 2006’s Coming Home, to repeated collaborations with hardcore labels Triple B, Bridge 9 and Revelation Records, nothing is off-limits for the quartet – and that’s just the way they like it.

New Found Glory Catalyst 20 Years Later Tour:

Aug 16 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
Aug 17 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
Aug 18 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
Aug 19 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
Aug 21 – Huntington, NY @ The Paramount
Aug 22 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
Aug 23 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
Aug 24 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony Summer Stage
Aug 25 – Buffalo, NY @ Buffalo Riverworks
Aug 27 – Detroit, MI@ The Fillmore
Aug 28 – Columbus, OH @ Kemba Live
Aug 29 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater
Aug 30 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
Sept 1 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
Oct 11 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
Oct 13 – Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee
Oct 15 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
Oct 16 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
Oct 17 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
Oct 18 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
Oct 19 – Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young Festival
Oct 20 – Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young Festival
Oct 22 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
Oct 23 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom