A Massachusetts trio whose layered guitars and atmospheric vocals create expansive, immersive tracks.
For a good sense of their sound, try 'Gemini' or 'The Falling Veil'. Both tracks show how they build these heavy, atmospheric spaces that feel immersive.
Elder's music matters because it refuses to stay in one lane. Songs like 'The Falling Veil' build slowly with layered guitars and drifting vocals, pulling from doom metal but stretching into progressive rock and psychedelic atmospheres. They've maintained their own creative direction rather than chasing commercial pressures, which shows in their unconventional choices like releasing 'Dead Roots Stirring' on vinyl only.
Elder formed in Massachusetts in 2006 as a trio with Nick DiSalvo on guitar and vocals. Their 2015 album 'Lore' and 2017's 'Reflections of a Floating World' showed them incorporating krautrock and jazz elements into their sound. They continued working after their former drummer Michael Rehberg died in a motorcycle accident in 2011.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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