Heavy psychedelic rock giants ELDER have debuted the second single, “Capture/Release,” from their highly anticipated album, Through Zero, that’s out May 29th via Blues Funeral Recordings (North America), Stickman Records (Europe/UK) and Bird’s Robe (Australia).
Commenting on the song, vocalist/guitarist Nick DiSalvo says:
“’Capture/Release’ is uncharacteristic in the Elder catalog for its relative straightforwardness and energy, which grew out of an older song fragment from the beginning of the decade. Like much of this record, for me it has an old meets new Elder spirit, dialing in a bit more of the heavy riffing from previous albums to mesh with our current sensibilities.
Playing this song together is a lot of fun, and that’s a statement in itself for what the track is about. Being a creative person in this day and age is an exercise in self-exploitation, fighting for visibility in a living hell of content creation and paid advertising just to keep your head above water. ‘Capture/Release’ is about the feeling of being caught in this technocratic nightmare that’s been imposed on us all, and reaffirming the reasons we create as humans in the first place – purely for our own free expression and joy. It says a lot about our world that we need to remind ourselves of why we do what we love, when that becomes divested of its inherent meaning.“
Watch the music video for “Capture/Release,” shot and edited by Sean Miller at Agency 159: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo73AyUfVz0
Stream “Capture/Release”: https://found.ee/elder_capturerelease
Pre-Order Through Zero: https://mailchi.mp/bluesfuneral/elder-through-zero-preorders
“Capture/Release” Single Artwork
ELDER’s follow-up to 2022’s critically acclaimed Innate Passage was self-produced by the band and co-mixed with Richard Behrens. Across six expansive tracks, ELDER continues their exploratory journey, blending their signature towering riffs and immersive atmospheres with influences drawn from beyond the traditional rock spectrum, further expanding their progressive vision.
Stream the record’s previously released title track and first single, “Through Zero,” here: https://youtu.be/_3pjBEGsw5Q?si=eQZ1LCsG-MPBisFX
ELDER will take their new record on tour across Europe this summer performing at festivals followed by US shows in the fall. Tickets are available for announced dates now at https://beholdtheelder.com/tour/.
Through Zero Track List:
1. Sigil To Ruin
2. Capture/Release
3. Through Zero
4. Strata
5. Sight Unseen
6. Blighted Age
ELDER European & UK Tour Dates:
June 13 – Derby, UK – Download Festival
June 14 – Colchester, UK – Colchester Arts Centre (w/Blood Incantation)
June 15 – Southampton, UK – The 1865 (w/Blood Incantation)
June 16 – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2 (w/Blood Incantation)
June 18 – Clisson, FR – Hellfest
June 19 – Graspop Metal Meeting
June 20 – Dortmund, DE – Junkyard Open Air (w/Kadavar)
June 21 – Frankfurt, DE – Das Bett
June 23 – Winterthur, CH – Gaswerk
June 24 – Karlsruhe, DE – P8 (w/REZN)
June 26 – Oslo, NO – Tons of Rock
June 27 – Thyrnau, DE – Blackdoor Festival
June 30 – Sofia, BG – Mixtape 5
July 1 – Thessaloniki, GR – Eightball Club
July 2 – Athens, GR – Arch Club
July 7 – Slunj, HR – Bearstone Festival
July 10 – Pleszew, PL – Red Smoke Festival
July 23 – Reutlingen, DE – Hafensounds Festival (w/Kadavar)
July 25 – Tolmin, SI – Tolminator Festival
July 26 – Milan, IT – Circolo Magnolia Summer
July 28 – Rockstadt, RO – Rockstadt Extreme Fest
July 30 – Breitenbach am Herzberg, DE – Burg Herrzberg Festival
Aug 4 – Rostock, DE – MAU Club
Aug 5 – Josefov-Jaromer, CZ – Brutal Assault Festival
Aug 9 – Âncora, PT – Sonic Blast Festival
Aug 14 – Valais, CH – PALP Festival
About ELDER:
Two decades into their existence, Elder remain an anomaly in the underground rock scene – a rare band with the ability to absorb and shed influences from a myriad of genres without falling into pastiche or losing their own identity. Their new record Through Zero is a strong reaffirmation of a commitment to pushing boundaries in the world of heavy rock and cements the group’s status as leaders of the pack in heavy psychedelic rock.
Elder has long since mastered crushing riffs, melodic jaunts, progressive patterns, hypnotic grooves and ethereal atmosphere along their path of music-making in the past twenty years. On Through Zero, Elder takes these years of experience and forms possibly their most immediate and engaging record to date, while allowing seeds from outside the sphere of rock music to take root and bloom within their progressive framework. Listeners will find familiar elements of new textures, sequences, and sounds alongside Elder’s iconic take on heavy rock. As always, every spin reveals new details.
Recorded in Berlin across several months between tours in 2025, Through Zero is the first album which the band not only produced but also co-mixed together with longtime collaborator Richard Behrens. The album sounds more like a full extension of the band’s creative intentions than ever before.
Elder was founded sometime around 2006 or so – nobody remembers exactly – in a small coastal town in Massachusetts by three longtime friends with a passion for heavy downtuned music. Over the years, the band has gained a guitarist, lost a drummer, relocated (mostly) from the States to Germany, played hundreds of shows from small clubs to arenas across the world and released six full-length albums, four EPs and two live records. Though this pedigree isn’t a requirement for anything, the twists and turns along the group’s winding road to today might explain the group’s refusal to stagnate.
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