My name is Nick NID Despotopoulos and I was born in Athens in 1985. Music won me from a very young age, culminating in the discovery of the Iron Maiden , which was the reason I picked up the guitar. From that moment I started guitar and music theory lessons and then I studied music technology and sound engineering.
My everyday life was just music in every way. We were running around the sheep farms, forming bands, playing gigs and you know, not missing every gig that was going on!
In 1999 I met Johnny Zero. In the beginning we formed a band with a more extreme sound, with which we did a lot of gigs in concert venues in Athens. A few years later and while I finished my military service, Johnny had formed Elysion , in which he took the position of guitarist from 2008 until today.
With Elysion I am now doing what I thought was a dream when I was a kid, recording, video clips, participation in the compositions and you mean many live performances in Greece and abroad. We have shared the stage with many big names, indicatively, Lacuna Coil, Evanescence, Nightwish, In Flames, Helloween, Saxon, Stratovarius.
At the same time I am preparing my personal project, in my home studio, which I hope to share very soon.I can't imagine a day without music... Music is the answer!
