Cage the Elephant is coming to ABQ. Find out when the Grammy winners will make a stop

Cage the Elephant is back with a new album and a tour.

The Grammy Award-winning band will release “Neon Pill” on May 17.

A 45-date tour of the same name will kick off June 20 in Utah. An Albuquerque date has been set for July 9, at Isleta Amphitheater.

Young the Giant and Bakar will open.

Tickets and VIP available for all dates will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday, March 8, at livenation.com

Numerous presales, including for the band’s Fan Club, Discord, and Spotify followers will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 5.

The Kentucky-bred six piece — brothers Matthew Shultz and Brad Shultz, Daniel Tichenor , Jared Champion, Nick Bockrath and Matthan Minster — are forging new musical ground, while maintaining their uncompromising creativity and wildly cathartic performances.

“To me, ‘Neon Pill’ is the first record where we were consistently uninfluenced, and I mean that in a positive way,” Matthew Shultz says. “Everything is undoubtedly expressed through having settled into finding our own voice. We’ve always drawn inspiration from artists we love, and at times we’ve even emulated some of them to a certain degree. With this album, having gone through so much, life had almost forced us into becoming more and more comfortable with ourselves. We weren’t reaching for much outside of the pure experience of self expression, and simultaneously not necessarily settling either. We just found a uniqueness in simply existing.” Over the course of its career, the band has earned dozens of gold, platinum, and multi platinum certifications, tallied over five billion streams, and notched 10 No. 1 records on Alternative Radio and five No.1 records on Triple A Radio.

Their previous two albums, 2015’s “Tell Me I’m Pretty” and 2019’s “Social Cues” garnered consecutive Best Rock Album Grammys.

“Neon Pill,” produced by John Hill, materialized during sessions at Sonic Ranch in El Paso, Electric Lady in New York, Sound Emporium in Nashville, Tennessee, Echo Mountain in North Carolina, and at Hill’s own studio in Los Angeles.

Nine months into the pandemic, Matthew and Brad lost their father.

The band weathered the back-to-back deaths of friends, while Matthew experienced depression and a mental breakdown, culminating in hospitalization.

Coming out on the other side, he learned quite a bit about himself, and gained a whole lot of strength and wisdom. “Neon Pill” came to life in the eye of the storm.