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2006 - March - Festival start
- February - recording of the new Firewind album
- February - recording of Saracen album "Vox in Exelso"
- Jan/Feb - recordings of God's Army
2005 Dec - shows with God's Army - DVD live recording
- launch of new band Gods Army
- September 26 SAE recording seminar
- July/August recording of Hugos Cross fusion project
- April 19 - May 6 - European Tour with At Vance "inside the Monster" Tour *Brainstorm"
- April 11, release of At Vance's new CD "Chained" by AFM Records
2004 - May - shows with Spitfire
- Writing material for own solo project
- August/October - Drum sessions in the UK for Winters Bane's new CD
- April - joined US metal band Winters Bane
- March - SAE drum clinics
2003 - December - Recordings for Mike K. in Athens Greece. Release scheduled for 2005
- May - 12th, release of "Helloween's "Rabbit don't come easy" by Nuclear Blast records.
- March - SAE drum clinics
2002 - Early September - Studio recordings with Helloween
- July/August - several gigs with Electric Eye
- June - Pre Production of Helloween's "Rabbit don't come easy"
2001 - November - Video & DVD release of Metalium's 'Metalian Attack - Part I by Locomotive Music with the entire documentation of their 2 year existence, including a 6 track live CD from the S.O.T. 2000 tour.
- In September he parted ways with Metalium and joined German pumpkins Helloween
- Festivals in the summer with Metalium.
2000 - December - Germany drum clinic
- October 14, Kingdom Come "too" release by Eagle Rock Entertainment" - Spitfire records, UK.
- October - December, Metalium's "State Of Triumph" European tour
- June - July, festivals with Metalium
- August - Japan by Avalon/Marquee. USA by Pavement records
- Metalium release dates in Europe: 26th of June by Massacre records
- In March he recorded the drums for Kingdom Come's 8th studio album "Too"
- January, recordings for Metalium's second album "State of triumph, chapter II".
1999 - Festivals "Rock Wave Athens" & several concerts during the winter of 99 in the south of Europe with Nightfall. During this year he moved to Germany and joined forces with the German- American power metal band Metalium.
1998 - Late October he recorded the drums on Nightfall's fourth album "Diva Futura" and CD single Electronegative, which were recorded and co-produced by J.P.Genkel (Cradle of Filth, Therion, Lacrimosa, Seven Witches, Metalium, Kingdom Come etc. at the Impuls recording studios in Hamburg, Germany.
- Summer - Spitfire Tour
1997 - Joined Greece's best-known hard rock band Spitfire. New recordings at Magna Carta studio.
1995/96 - Played with cover bands (Anonymous - Take 3) for two years
1995 - Returned to Greece and built the recording studio The Magna Carta.
1993 - Recordings and tour with Mike Rakintzis featuring Deep Purple's front man Ian Gillan.
End of 1993 moved to Los Angeles, USA
1992 - He took some time off to get a band together and formed the band Bad Habit, who opened for the Ramones and played the Gillan/Rakintzis shows the following year.
1990/91 - Early 1990 he parted ways with Magna Carta and joined Greek pop star Anna Vissi & Nick Carr for a period of two years. 98 shows at the REX Theatre Athens, 21 shows in Salonica and 75 sold out shows around Greece.
1988/89 - Writing, recording & release of first album of Magna Carta - early 1990 - Promotion & concerts in Greece.
1987 explored the German music market for a few months, returned to Greece and performed with local popular rock artist V.Papaconstantinou on 35 shows in the country.
1986 - Scraptowns third release, featuring the no 1 hit single Viva Sahara. Promotion & club tour through the Cote dÁzur, France.
1985 - First professional recording on a movie soundtrack entitled "Time of Growing", featuring Julie Massino, composed by D. Papadimitriou. Joined the Greek rock band Scraptown
1984 - basic training in sound engineering at the SAE (School of Audio Engineering) in Vienna AUS for 6 months and started working as a part time engineer at Northlight Studios in Athens, Greece.
1983 - established himself in the Greek record industry as a session musician.
1982 - recorded first own demo.
1980 - formed own band and organized High School gigs.