Elder Surprise-Release Liminality / Dream State Return EP
Heavy progressive rock forerunners Elder have surprise-dropped a new, 18-minute-long single-song EP. Titled Liminality / Dream State Return, the outing finds the mostly-Berlin four-piece between tours, as earlier this year they were out celebrating the 10th anniversary of their landmark third long-player, Lore (review here) and they’ll spend the bulk of October on the road supporting All Them Witches (weren’t they also supposed to release an album?) on stages across Europe.
That run culminates on a swing through Iberia and loops back up to France for Elder to hit Westill Festival on Nov. 1 before likely rounding out a busy year for them. That they’ve even managed to mix an 18-minute track given everything else they’ve had going on is impressive, but of course they’re long since pros at the thing. There’s video accompaniment for the track at the bottom of this post.
I won’t delay further. Probably review to come. Meantime, from the PR wire:
ELDER release new 18-minute EP, “Liminality / Dream State Return”, now available via Stickman Records!
European & UK Tour Dates with ALL THEM WITCHES, Kicking off in early October!
In the winter of 2024, Boston-born, Berlin-based progressive heavy rock band ELDER reconvened in their adopted home city after a much-needed creative break. Following years of relentless touring in the wake of the pandemic, the band found themselves revisiting a long-shelved project: fragments of music written between Omens (2020) and Innate Passage (2022), material that never quite fit either album.
What began as a simple studio session quickly grew into something more expansive. The result is Liminality / Dream State Return, a sprawling 18-minute composition that bridges ELDER’s past and future. Built around stream-of-consciousness lyrics and extended instrumental passages, the piece captures the band in a transitional state, exploring the “in-between” with both intimacy and grandeur.
For the first time, ELDER collaborated with longtime friend and filmmaker Malachi Cull, who created an epic visual accompaniment — a short film as much as a music video — to mirror the track’s hypnotic journey.
“Liminality / Dream State Return” is out now and available on ELDER’s Bandcamp at: https://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com
ELDER guitarist & vocalist Nick Di Salvo comments:
“After many years of making music together, it’s nice to know that we can still surprise ourselves. When we met in winter of 2024 to start preproduction for the next record, we didn’t expect that we’d actually end up making a new piece of music in the meantime, or rather finishing some business from the past. This track is yet another bridge between worlds for us, a song which wasn’t ripe for the albums during which it was composed, but not fitting in our upcoming album 7 either.”
Although the project was initially conceived as a digital-only release, ELDER soon decided it deserved a physical format. Liminality / Dream State Return will also be released as a 12” vinyl EP via Stickman Records, pressed on 180g translucent coke-bottle green vinyl with an etching on the B-side and packaged with a download card and artwork by Adam Hill. Visit the label’s webstore at: https://www.stickman-records.com/shop/elder-liminality-dream-state-return/
This October, ELDER will be joining neo-psychedelic blues rock masters ALL THEM WITCHES on their House of Mirrors Tour, followed by headline shows in Portugal, Spain and France. Find all upcoming shows listed below:
With ALL THEM WITCHES:
06.10.25 Glasgow (UK), The Garage
07.10.25 Manchester (UK), Manchester Academy 2
08.10.25 Leeds (UK), Leeds Beckett Students’ Union
09.10.25 London (UK), O2 Forum Kentish Town
11.10.25 Paris (FR), Le Bataclan
12.10.25 Brussels (BE), Ancienne Belgique
14.10.25 Utrecht (NL), Tivoli/Vredenburg
15.10.25 Tilburg (NL), 013 Poppodium
17.10.25 Copenhagen (DK), Amager Bio
19.10.25 Berlin (DE), Tempodrom
20.10.25 Warsaw (PL), Progresja
21.10.25 Prague (CZ), Roxy
22.10.25 Vienna (AT), Gasometer
23.10.25 Milan (IT), Alcatraz
24.10.25 Berne (CH), Bierhübeli
26.10.25 Barcelona (ES), Razzmatazz
27.10.25 Madrid (ES), La Riviera
Headlining Dates:
28.10.25 Lisbon (PT), RCA Club
(Elder only)
29.10.25 Porto (PT), Mouco
(Elder only)
30.10.25 Bilbao (ES), D8 Sorkuntza
(Elder only)
31.10.25 Toulouse (FR), La Cabane
(Elder only)
01.11.25 Vallet (FR), Westhill Festival (Elder only)
Elder is:
Nick DiSalvo – Guitars, Vocals
Mike Risberg – Guitars, Keys
Jack Donovan – Bass
Georg Edert – Drums
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