Heavy psychedelic rock trailblazers ELDER have announced a spring 2027 North American headlining tour, confirming rescheduled performances from their previously postponed fall dates alongside a handful of newly added shows. The 14-date trek kicks off April 2nd in Cleveland, OH with BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT returning as special guests on all dates except Seattle.
The announcement follows the band’s unexpected cancellation of their remaining North American tour dates in September after bassist Jack Donovan was hospitalized with a serious medical emergency. Donovan subsequently underwent open-heart surgery after doctors discovered a congenital heart condition. With Donovan recovering, ELDER are looking ahead to their return to the stage and the opportunity to complete their long-awaited tour in support of their latest album, Through Zero.
In a statement to fans, the band shared:
“After a health emergency forced us to cut our recent U.S. and Canadian tour short. We’re happy to announce that all dates from that run have now been rescheduled, along with a handful of new shows. We look forward to having Blackwater Holylight back on the road with us and seeing you at a show soon!”
Previously purchased tickets will be honored for the corresponding rescheduled performances, including the upgraded venues at Metro in Chicago and The Oriental Theater in Denver.
For tickets and additional information, visit https://beholdtheelder.com/tour/.
ELDER – North American Tour 2027
With BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT except where noted
April 2 – Cleveland, OH – The Odeon
April 3 – Pittsburgh, PA – Spirit
April 5 – Baltimore, MD – Soundstage
April 6 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
April 7 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
April 9 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
April 10 – Montreal, QC – Theatre Fairmount
April 12 – Toronto, ON – The Opera House
April 14 – Chicago, IL – Metro
April 15 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
April 17 – Denver, CO – Oriental Theater
April 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
April 20 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
April 22 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre (ELDER only)
The upcoming tour will give North American audiences another opportunity to experience material from Through Zero, released May 29th, 2026, via Blues Funeral Recordings (North America), Stickman Records (Europe/UK), and Bird’s Robe Records (Australia).
The six-track album represents another step forward in ELDER’s ever-evolving approach to heavy progressive rock, expanding their intricate arrangements, hypnotic grooves and expansive guitar work with new electronic textures, atmospheric passages and influences extending beyond the boundaries of traditional rock music. Recorded in Berlin throughout 2025, the album was self-produced by the band and co-mixed with longtime collaborator Richard Behrens.
Watch the videos for “Capture/Release” and “Through Zero.”
Stream/Purchase Through Zero: https://mailchi.mp/bluesfuneral/elder-through-zero-preorders
Through Zero Track List:
1. Sigil To Ruin
2. Capture/Release
3. Through Zero
4. Strata
5. Sight Unseen
6. Blighted Age
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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