ELDER Announce New Headlining Dates + European Tour With ALL THEM WITCHES!

Following their recent tour announcement in support of neo-psychedelic blues rock masters ALL THEM WITCHES on their House of Mirrors Tour, progressive psych-rock spearheads ELDER have unveiled a series of new European headlining dates for October 2025!

The band posts: "We're extremely stoked to be supporting one of our favorite current bands All Them Witches in Europe this October. Following that, we'll be playing a few headline shows in Portugal, Spain and France."

Find all upcoming ELDER dates listed below; 

Tickets for the headliner shows will go on sale this Friday. 

Visit https://beholdtheelder.com/tour/ for more ticket & concert info!

Furthermore, the band will be kicking off their much-awaited European "Lore" anniversary tour-leg this Thursday in Hamburg, Germany, playing their ground-breaking, third studio album in its entirety. "Lore" was released in 2015 on Stickman Records.

"Lore is turning 10 years old. This album marked a point of departure for Elder upon a path which the band is still walking now", ELDER recently commented. "For us, this is the record where the band came into its own as a unique voice in the heavy rock underground. As we approach our second decade as a band, we feel it's appropriate to look back on this landmark for us and acknowledge it properly, which is why we're doing a tour performing the entire album along with some other tracks from our earlier catalog; we'll give this era of the band a proper celebration before turning our attention once again toward the future and the next album, currently being written."

ELDER - "Lore" 10th Anniversary Tour 2025:

08.05.2025 Hamburg (DE), Bahnhof Pauli
09.05.2025 Copenhagen (DK), A Colossal Weekend
10.05.2025 Oslo (NO), Desertfest Oslo
11.05.2025 Stockholm (SE), Hus 7
13.05.2025 Esch-Alzette (LU), Kulturfabrik
14.05.2025 Tourcoing (FR), Le Grand Mix
15.05.2025 Brussels (BE), Le Botanique
16.05.2025 London (UK), Desertfest London
17.05.2025 Nijmegen (NL), Sonic Whip Festival
18.05.2025 Savigny-Le-Temple (FR), Grand Sludge Fest
20.05.2025 Wiesbaden (DE), Schlachthof – Kesselhaus
21.05.2025 Lyon (FR), L’Epicerie Moderne
22.05.2025 Lucerne (CH), Sedel
23.05.2025 Munich (DE), Feierwerk
24.05.2025 Jena (DE), Kuba
25.05.2025 Berlin (DE), Desertfest Berlin
05.06.2025 Gdańsk (PL), Mystic Festival

With ALL THEM WITCHES + Headlining Dates:

06.10.25 Glasgow (UK), The Garage
07.10.25 Manchester (UK), Manchester Academy 2
08.10.25 Leeds (UK), Leeds Beckett Students’ Union
09.10.25 London (UK), O2 Forum Kentish Town
11.10.25 Paris (FR), Le Bataclan
12.10.25 Brussels (BE), Ancienne Belgique
14.10.25 Utrecht (NL), Tivoli/Vredenburg
15.10.25 Tilburg (NL), 013 Poppodium
17.10.25 Copenhagen (DK), Amager Bio
19.10.25 Berlin (DE), Tempodrom
20.10.25 Warsaw (PL), Progresja
21.10.25 Prague (CZ), Roxy
22.10.25 Vienna (AT), Gasometer
23.10.25 Milan (IT), Alcatraz
24.10.25 Berne (CH), Bierhübeli
26.10.25 Barcelona (ES), Razzmatazz
27.10.25 Madrid (ES), La Riviera

28.10.25 Lisbon (PT), RCA Club
 (Elder only)
29.10.25 Porto (PT), Mouco
 (Elder only)
30.10.25 Bilbao (ES), D8 Sorkuntza
 (Elder only)
31.10.25 Toulouse (FR), La Cabane
 (Elder only)
01.11.25 Vallet (FR), Westhill Festival (Elder only)

[Artwork: Adam Hill]

For More Info Visit:

https://beholdtheelder.com
https://www.facebook.com/elderofficial
https://www.instagram.com/elderband
https://elder.bigcartel.com
https://www.stickman-records.com

Thanks to All Noir PR for all of the details.

All Them Witches - ATW (Album Review)

Release date: September 28th 2018. Label: New West Independent Music. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl

ATW – Tracklisting

1.Fishbelly 86 Onions

2.Workhorse

3.1st vs. 2nd

4.Half-Tongue

5.Diamond

6.Harvest Feast

7.HJTC

8.Rob's Dream

Members

Charles Michael Parks, Jr

Ben McLeod

Robby Staebler

Review

All Them Witches have never been afraid to take risks with their music and it's seen them build their reputation with each album they've released so far. The band will be releasing their fifth album overall with ATW. ATW sees All Them Witches opt for a sixties sounding Psychedelic Rock sound compared to the heavier Blues/Stoner Rock sound of the last couple albums.

This is distinctively All Them Witches but with a more experimental feel as the band take influence from The Doors and Blue Cheers with bombastic heavy Psychedelic Rock sounds. The album is quite complex in places and long-time fans may take some time getting used to this album. 

It's not as accessible to previous All Them Witches but when have the band ever played by the rules. The instrumental work is sublime as ever with the band creating a rawer sound. There are still elements of the sound from previous albums but they only appear for brief moments here and there.

Opening song - Fishbelly 86 Onions - is a very cool song to open the album with. As the band play a heavy psychedelic sound that may leave the listener questioning some of the bands creative choices. This album will take a few listens to fully admire and appreciate. The lyrics are superb and offer a twisted Americana vibe when merged with the heavy music that the band has written for this album.

The production is quite raw and less ambitious than we are used to from the band. However it's still a superb sounding album and it makes you feel more emotionally connected to the band. The other songs take a more experimental approach compared to the opening track with songs such as 1st vs. 2nd, Half Tongue, Diamond, Harvest Feast and Workhorse being the strongest tracks on the album.

Harvest Feast is perhaps the song that will excite fans the most as it's an eleven minute epic that sees All Them Witches blend Psych Rock, Classic Rock, Americana, Blues and Stoner Rock. Yeah you may think you've heard the band do this style of music before. Wait till you hear Harvest Feast. As it's delivered by a band who are at the top of their game.

I will admit this was a very hard album to review as the album changes into so many different directions. Some that we haven't heard from the band before. ATW proves why All Them Witches are one of the best and most important bands currently within the Psych/Stoner Rock scene.

There is no other band like them at the moment and ATW what makes them so unique. All Them Witches never release the same type of record twice and ATW maybe their best and most creative album to date. Well until the next album comes out of course….

Words by Steve Howe

ATW will be available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl via NewWest Independent Music from September 28^th 2018.

Links:

Official | Facebook | BandCamp

All Them Witches - Sleeping Through The War (Album Review)

Release date: February 24^th 2017. Label: New West Records. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl

Sleeping Through The War – Tracklisting

1. Bulls

2. Don’t Bring Me Coffee

3. Bruce Lee

4. 3-5-7

5. Am I Going Up

6. Alabaster

7. Cowboy Kirk

8. Internet

Band Members

Charles Michael Parks, Jr. (vocals/bass)

Ben McLeod (guitar)

Allan Van Cleave (keys)

Robby Staebler (drums).

Review

All Them Witches is a band who create cosmic hypnosis. They combine 60's psychedelia, 70's fuzz and 80's groove in their own brand of trance rock. This is a band that is constructed of certain paramount elements of pure rock grandeur, the essence of what comprised the relevant in U2, the mighty in Zeppelin, the abstract in Floyd and the dangerous in The Doors.

Eight songs make up the rooms in this astrological house of an album and each room is decorated differently, just like the signs of the zodiac. This is to be marked as a triumphant return of a band who conjure music from electric broomsticks, upturned cauldrons, black cat organs, and lyrical spell books. The exhibition of paramount song writing power and overall glossy album production are the two commandments followed on this release. 

Here are the songs:

Bulls-is a dream-like song of enlightenment in the new age of sound. This band leads off the album with a warm, fuzz laden lullaby; a mesmerizing blend of powerful and magnetic stoned blues rock.

Don't Bring Me Coffee-this tune is intergalactic garage rock made in the orbit of deep space by psychic astronauts on the fringe of the great beyond. A song played with the dirt of distortion bouncing off cavernous drums, all of which is recorded in a satellite coated with duct tape residue.

Bruce Lee-a galloping ride of hovering organ and shuffling rock mellow fusion whose goal is to proclaim the strength of clarity in a wilderness of doubt.

3-5-7- embodies the rhythmic sway of the turquoise beaded shaman and all his magical allure to predict the magnificent course of the child into the god. This tune consists of melodic keys of organic elongation, distorted guitar riffs and uncomplicated drums, all of which exist alongside a masterful choral delight.

Am I Going Up-this tune is broadcasted through echoes of guitar plucks and strums, background singers of the female persuasion, a smooth vocal delivery, and the use of a machine whose sole job is to make warm, ripe, cinnamon coated apple sounds...welcome to an ascension into the world exotic birds and the feathery vibrations of their solar sails.

Alabaster-this track is a manifestation of reflected instruments backed by spacey jazz percussion. A cool spin that mirrors a functional imprint of repetitious instrument notes and swirling patterns of conga beats.

Cowboy Kirk- a dichotomous, slow beat song that dissolves into psychedelic woe, yet also evolves into an appeal that makes you bob and sway. It is time break all the colors of your kid sister's wax crayon box only to fashion a candle to burn and watch the rainbow bleed down.

Internet-a fantastic, harmonic, blues man, spoken word mantra which trades off with a classic rock vibe that voices the broken code to an all true tell tale lyric demonstrated by watching your neighbors explore an expansive video game civilization instead of the real world around them.

All Them Witches remind us that the darkness doesn't always have to consist of razor sharp teeth, rather it may sometimes offer an undulating caress of the black tongue.

These witches are highly developed entities who have chosen to move beyond the ancient, constant and all to common torture tactics of devil worship, choosing instead to embrace the experimental craft of posthypnotic suggestion and rehabilitation through modernism in music, all the while putting a divine magic spell on us and our mundane culture.

"Sleeping Through The War" is a journey into sound that sets fire to limitations and goes beyond your expectations. The lyrics move like fusiliers and enrich the songs that support the album. This band has stuck its neck out on this release, so give the album a chance to charm you. The oracle has spoken with the prophecy revealed...if you are troubled, it's time to set your self free. This will be a classic album and we are fortunate that it was made in our life time...make room for it along side your other circular friends on the record shelf.

Words by Nick Palmisano

Thanks to Dave at Division PR for the promo. Sleeping Through The War will be available to buy via New West Records on CD/DD/Vinyl from February 24th 2017.

Links:

Official | Facebook | BandCamp