Nick DiSalvo of Elder on Through Zero, 20 Years of Making Music & Life in Germany | Ep. 34

Check out our latests newsletter on ELDER HERE: www.thesonicroad.com Nick DiSalvo — vocalist, guitarist, and founding member of Elder — returns to The Sonic Road Podcast for a full conversation ahead of the band's seventh studio album Through Zero, out May 29th via Blues Funeral Recordings in North America and Stickman Records in Europe. This is a wide-ranging episode covering the full arc of Elder's career, the creative philosophy behind Through Zero, and a lot of the real day-to-day reality of being a working musician two decades in. Nick speaks openly about burnout, creative intention, what mainstream even means in 2026, and what twenty years of doing this actually looks like from the inside. Here's what gets covered: 🎸 Twenty years of Elder — what it feels like, what it's built, and the honest admission that not