Fun fact: every time I post a bio I wrote for a release, I use the same phrase so that if I need to, I can go back and search the site with that phrase in quotes and find them immediately. The phrase?

Wait for it…

“Bio I wrote.”

I hope you’ve enjoyed this special exclusive look behind the scenes at the inner workings of the cement brick that at some point took residence where my brain used to be.

Said bio begins with the “It’s…” below — obviously I had the title there but it was replaced for flow — and ends after the quote from Nick DiSalvo. I was compensated — rather against my will — for writing it and while it’s promotional text being used for those purposes, I would like to emphasize particularly in this case that I mean every word I wrote. Even among a catalog of landmarks, Innate Passage is a landmark. An album-of-their-career kind of record, and a legit payoff for their progression to-date. If it was just about anyone else, I would say they’ll never be able to top it. I make no such promise as regards Elder.

Album details from the PR wire, along with the bio I wrote:

ELDER Announces New Album Innate Passage!

European Tour Dates With PALLBEARER To Kick Off This Week!

Prog- and psych rock masters, Elder, have announced their brand new album, Innate Passage, for a November 25th release via Stickman Records in Europe and through Armageddon in North America.

It‘s the band’s sixth full-length, and finds the mostly-Berlin-based band in the post-pandemic era as veterans at the forefront of a league of progressive and heavy groups working in large part under their influence; a stately presence as reliably forward-thinking as they are unpredictable in sound. They are among the most important acts of their mostly-still-emerging generation. Genuine leaders in style and expressive intention. Innate Passage is further proof why.

In Spring 2020, Elder released their fifth album, Omens, and with it established a claim on their most prog-leaning interpretation of sprawling heavy rock and roll. Two years later, Innate Passage builds on many similar concepts, but outdoes its predecessor on every level of performance, weight of its impact, interplay between founder Nick DiSalvo and Mike Risberg’s guitars and keys, the now-settled-in drumming of Georg Edert – who made his debut on Omens – and bassist Jack Donovan’s tonal warmth underscoring the shimmer of DiSalvo’s leads. Alongside DiSalvo, Innate Passage also features a guest singer performance for the first time in Behrang Alavi of Samavayo.

Elder’s upcoming album is a culmination of everything they’ve done before, and that’s reason to celebrate, but more, it is that after more than 15 years, they’re still pushing forward to places where neither they nor anyone they’ve influenced have yet gone.

Says DiSalvo: “This record channels the surreal world we live in from a fantastical point of view, not super-literally, and how we as humans processed that; everyone on their own passage through time and space and whatever version of reality they chose for themselves. The phrase ‘Innate Passage’ appeared to me when writing the record. Passage and transition are necessary in the human condition and this process is intrinsic to us. All the growth and introspection we underwent in the past few years totally made this apparent to me more so than any other experiences in life so far.”

Innate Passage track listing:
01. Catastasis
02. Endless Return
03. Coalescence
04. Merged In Dreams – Ne Plus Ultra
05. The Purpose

After Elder just returned from an extensive North American tour, the band is currently gearing up to embark on a European tour with PALLBEARER, kicking off this week in Berlin, Germany! Make sure to catch this high class tour line-up live at the following dates:

22.09.2022 – DE – Berlin, SO36
23.09.2022 – DE – Leipzig, UT Connewitz
24.09.2022 – CZ – Prague, Futurum Music Bar
25.09.2022 – PL – Warsaw, Proxima
26.09.2022 – AT – Vienna, Arena s
27.09.2022 – HU – Budapest, Analog Music Hall
28.09.2022 – SI – Ljubljana, Orto Bar
30.09.2022 – DE – Munich, Feierwerk
01.10.2022 – CH – Pratteln, Up In Smoke Festival
02.10.2022 – IT – Milan, Circolo Magnolia
03.10.2022 – FR – Grenoble, L’Amperage
06.10.2022 – ESP – Barcelona, AMFest
08.10.2022 – PT – Porto, Amplifest
09.10.2022 – ESP – Madrid, Okkult Session 3
11.10.2022 – FR – Toulouse, Le Rex
12.10.2022 – FR – Montpellier, Rockstore
13.10.2022 – FR – Nantes, Le Ferrailleur
14.10.2022 – FR – Paris, Petit Bain
15.10.2022 – BE – Antwerp, Desertfest
16.10.2022 – NL – Tilburg, 013
18.10.2022 – DK – Aarhus, VoxHall
19.10.2022 – NO – Oslo, Parkteatret
20.10.2022 – NO – Drammen, Union Scene
21.10.2022 – NO – Stavanger, Folken
22.10.2022 – NO – Bergen, Kulturhuset
25.10.2022 – SE – Stockholm, Slaktkyrkan
26.10.2022 – SE – Gothenburg, Pustervik
28.10.2022 – DK – Copenhagen, Pumpehuset
29.10.2022 – DE – Hamburg, Logo
30.10.2022 – BE – Ghent, Desertfest
31.10.2022 – DE – Dortmund, Junkyard
02.11.2022 – UK – Brighton, Chalk
03.11.2022 – UK – Bristol, The Fleece
04.11.2022 – UK – London, Earth
05.11.2022 – UK – Manchester, Damnation Festival

Elder is:
Nick DiSalvo – Guitars, Vocals
Mike Risberg – Guitars, Keys
Jack Donovan – Bass
Georg Edert – Drums

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https://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/

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https://www.facebook.com/Stickman-Records-1522369868033940/

Elder, Omens (2020)

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