20 Years of Elder — Nick DiSalvo on Pride, Reality & What "The Big Time" Even Means Anymore

Check out more on the episode here: www.thesonicroad.com Nick DiSalvo reflects on twenty years of Elder with the kind of honesty that's rare in music interviews — the bewilderment of still doing it, the genuine pride in everything the band has built, and an admission that not breaking through to mainstream recognition still stings sometimes even two decades in. Nick talks openly about what hitting the big time actually means in 2026 — whether the traditional definition even applies anymore, and whether more people coming to live music than ever before might be a more meaningful measure of success than radio play or mainstream chart positions ever were. It's a grounded and thoughtful take on what sustaining a career in independent heavy music actually looks like over the long haul — not the romanticized version, but the real one. Twenty years of touring, seven albums, a devoted international fanbase, and the ongoing process of figuring out what success actually means when you're operating outside of the mainstream on your own terms. Through Zero is Elder's seventh studio album, out May 29th via Blues Funeral Recordings in North America and Stickman Records in Europe. Pre-order variants available now through Blues Funeral Recordings, Stickman Records, and Levitation Records. 🎵 ORDER THROUGH ZERO: Blues Funeral → bluesfuneral.com Stickman Records → stickmanrecords.com Levitation → levitation-records.com 🔔 SUBSCRIBE to The Sonic Road Podcast: thesonicroad.com | linktr.ee/thesonicroad 📲 FOLLOW THE SONIC ROAD PODCAST: @thesonicroad 📲 FOLLOW ELDER: beholdtheelder.com | @elderofficial ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Elder #NickDiSalvo #ThroughZero #TheSonicRoadPodcast #BluesFuneralRecordings ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━