Liminality/Dream State Return, by Elder

Liminality/Dream State Return

by Elder

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Elder return with a single, long 18-minute track bridging the gap between 2022's Innate Passage and their next full-length, anticipated early next year.

At the end of 2024, Elder looked back on an unusual period in their now near 20-year career. A few years ago, the band had released their most progressive record yet, 2022's highly acclaimed Innate Passage, followed by the usual heavy touring schedule, including a 24-show arena tour supporting Tool. The band then took a year-long sabbatical to recharge their creative batteries, which, instead of rest, culminated in the release of multiple albums by side projects.

Convening in the winter of that year for a two-week songwriting session at Big Snuff Studio in Berlin, the band set a goal of knocking off the rust and putting together ideas for the next record. While combing through an archive of old sketches, they hit upon an outline of a song from somewhere between 2020's Omens and its successor Innate Passage, abandoned then for reasons now inscrutable. Picking up the pieces with fresh ears, Elder fleshed out a new version of the track, which is firmly rooted between those two albums but with an identity of its own. Building on the song's ending, a swirling tower of synthesizers, chugging guitars, and almost tribal drumming was constructed during lengthy in-studio jams.

Liminality/Dream State Return can be seen as a bridge between eras in Elder's creative universe: one foot is planted in the highly melodic and sometimes alternative/grunge-tinged riffing of Omens, the other in Innate Passage's dreamy prog soundscapes, with its head in the clouds looking toward Elder's upcoming LP 7.

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released September 22, 2025

Elder is
Nicholas DiSalvo
Jack Donovan
Michael Risberg
Georg Edert

Additional keyboards by Fabien de Menou
Recorded by Richard Behrens and Fabien de Menou at Big Snuff Studio, Berlin in Winter 2024
Mixed by Richard Behrens
Mastered by Carl Saff
Artwork and layout by Adam Hill

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