In 2024, at Tacoma's Sabertooth Festival, Washington—an annual extreme metal event launched in 2018 as a hub for stoner and doom scenes with an underground focus—Massachusetts band Elder, formed in 2008 and honing psychedelic doom on Innate Passage (2022), which marked their shift to melodic riffs, delivered a day-capping set. Their hour-long performance, brimming with heavy guitar textures and atmospheric jams, embodied the band's resilience post-lineup changes, as stoner rock gained festival scale under rain, evoking catharsis among thousands. This show underscored Elder's role as American psychedelic metal pioneers, transforming the stage into a realm of collective trance.