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Georgios "George" Kollias (born August 30, 1977 in Corinth, Greece) is a Greek heavy metal drummer and music teacher best known for his work with American technical death metal band Nile. He is the first Nile drummer to perform every song on more than one full-length album (handling drum duties so far on ''Annihilation of the Wicked'', ''Ithyphallic'', ''Those Whom the Gods Detest'' and ''At the Gate of Sethu''). His sponsors include Sabian, Evans and Vic Firth. In addition to being the drummer of Nile he also teaches drums at the Modern Music School in Athens. ==Biography== He started playing drums, self-taught, at the age of 12, covering songs of his favorite bands like Sepultura and Slayer. Around 1999, he started drum lessons with Greek drummer Yannis Stavropoulos, who was a big influence on Kollias.〔Bender, Frank. (George Kollias - Exclusive OnlineDrummer.com Interview ) onlinedrummer.com. 2009-06-26. Retrieved on 2010-07-18.〕 His early inspirations include Richard Christy, Paul Bostaph, Pete Sandoval, Dave Lombardo, Igor Cavalera, Gene Hoglan and Lars Ulrich. Later his taste expanded to different drummers like Vinnie Colaiuta, Dave Weckl, Steve Gadd, Thomas Lang, and Mike Mangini.〔 He previously drummed for Sickening Horror, a death metal band. He also used to be in the Greek melodic death metal band Nightfall, but left the band in 2005 to join Nile. Kollias made an instructional drumming DVD called ''Intense Metal Drumming'' that was released in July 2008. A press release dated April 5, 2012, announced Kollias's recruitment for session drums on the Wagnerian Opera Metal project Lyraka's upcoming album.〔()〕 He has a brother named Iraklis Kollias, who was the guitarist for the band Extremity Obsession. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Kollias (drummer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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