George Kollias is a world touring drummer-clinician-educator, member of the legendary metal band Nile and drum instructor in Modern Music School.
Born in August 1977, he started at the age of ten as a guitar player and picked up the drum set at the age of twelve. He also started his first band at the same age doing several local shows and live sessions for other bands.
He joined Nile back in 2004, he recorded 4 albums with them raising the bar of their rhythm section and together leading the world’s extreme metal scene. Nile’s unique musical and lyrical approach established their name as one of the most technical bands for live performance and studio.
George has years of studio experience and has recoded with multiple bands such is Tyr, Cerebrum, Ade, Outloud, Sickening Horror, Nightfall and many others. His 2 instructional DVDs Intense Metal Drumming and Intense Metal Drumming II established George as one of the top metal drummers worldwide and his DVDs stayed at the top selling Instructional DVDs for months. Both DVDs faced great reviews from the drumming press and magazines like Modern Drummer, Drum! Magazine, Drum Scene, Drumhead Magazine and others. George’s DVDs got also a great support from the fans around the world making George’s name grow as a very important instructor, influencing thousands of drummers.