Elder

Innate Passage

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jichola This music is heavy as a winter coat and colourful as an oily stain. Strangely comforting and highly evocative.

Ebbe Scovdahl Whatever mood I’m in, Elder works for me. Their mellow moments accompany mine as do their psychedelic, energetic, emotional and sexy parts. As you can see from my profile picture, I’m mainly sexy. This album, in my humble opinion, is their best, cohesive work and it’s sexy in all the right places!

Darknight Elder have created the perfect progressive rock album, Innate Passage is the masterpiece that we've all been waiting for. In all its glory this album is absolutely gorgeous, beautiful and heavy in triumphant measures, Elder are four dudes with amazing talent. Congrats to Elder!! You've just made my year👏🤘

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1.	Catastasis 10:50	buy track
2.	Endless Return 09:54	buy track
3.	Coalescence 09:47	buy track
4.	Merged In Dreams - Ne Plus Ultra 14:43	buy track
5.	The Purpose 08:37	buy track

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Innate Passage is the sixth Elder full-length. It 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.

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.”

“Catastasis” begins Innate Passage with a pointedly bright perspective and the most complex vocal harmonies that Elder have ever produced. Alongside DiSalvo, Innate Passage features a guest singer for the first time in Behrang Alavi (Samavayo), who adds his voice to what’s already a career performance for DiSalvo as a singer; his voice is more confident, has more presence, and more reach than ever before. That is but one way in which Innate Passage steps boldly deeper into this new era for Elder.

Whether it’s a shredding lead in the culmination of “Endless Return” or the willfully patient, almost meandering, build into the crescendo and fade of “Merged in Dreams/Ne Plus Ultra,” Elder are poised as never before as they execute this material. In centerpiece “Coalescence,” they offer Opeth-worthy rhythmic intricacy and piano drama offset by crunching heavy guitar and twisting leads, and in “The Purpose,” they craft a wash of melody that is engrossing without sacrificing any clarity of the individual instruments that make it.

As the album ends with soft guitar in an answer to the intro of “Catastasis,” the sense of wholeness that comes through is one more aspect arguing for Elder as singularly crucial. Innate Passage 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. – JJ Koczan, Sept. 2022.

credits

released November 25, 2022

Nicholas DiSalvo - Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards
Jack Donovan - Bass
Michael Risberg - Guitar, Keyboards
Georg Edert - Drums

Additional vocals on "Catastasis" and "Endless Return" by Behrang Alavi
Additional keys on "The Purpose" by Fabio Cuomo

Recorded and mixed by Linda Dag at Clouds Hill Studio
Mastered by Carl Saff

Artwork by Adrian Dexter

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Elder Berlin, Germany

Elder melds the sounds of heavy psychedelic rock with progressive elements and evocative soundscapes.

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Alcatraz Metal Festival

Kortrijk, Belgium
Aug 16

Fernhill Farm

Compton Martin, UK

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