Topping Every Record You've Ever Made — Nick DiSalvo of Elder on Pressure and Why It's Still Fun

Nick DiSalvo of Elder on the creative pressure that comes with seven studio albums and twenty years of raising the bar — and why, despite that pressure, making music is still genuinely something he enjoys rather than something he endures. Seven albums in, the expectation to top the last record doesn't get lighter. Every release cycle brings the same question from listeners, critics, and from the band itself — is this better than what came before? Nick talks about how he navigates that pressure without letting it strip the fun out of the creative process, and why staying connected to the genuine enjoyment of making music is ultimately what produces the best results anyway. It's a perspective that any creative person working in a long-running project will recognize immediately — the tension between the external pressure to constantly evolve and the internal need to actually enjoy what you're doing. Nick makes a strong case that the two don't have to be in conflict. Through Zero is Elder's seventh studio album, out May 29th via Blues Funeral Recordings in North America and Stickman Records in Europe. Order variants available now through Blues Funeral Recordings, Stickman Records, and Levitation Records. 🎵 PRE-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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━