Elder released new 18-minute EP »Liminality / Dream State Return«; now available via Stickman Records!
Berlin, Germany based progressive heavy rockers Elder premiere their brand new EP, »Liminality / Dream State Return«, now available via Stickman Records.
Tracklist:
01. Liminality
02. Dream State Return
Courtesy of All Noir PR:
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. Watch HERE.
Photo credit: Leon De Backer
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.”
»Liminality / Dream State Return« is out now and available on Elder’s Bandcamp at: beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com
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. To order your copy, visit the label’s webstore at: stickman-records.com
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)
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well