Nick was born in Camden, New Jersey, the son of a US Navy Father, and studied architecture before pursuing a career in music.

In the summer of 1990, Douglas auditioned for the German hard rock singer Doro Pesch and was chosen among many candidates.

[6] In 2005, he was the bass player for Chris Caffery, on his Faces tour[7] and at the end of 2005, he reunited with his first band Deadly Blessing, which had been inactive for a long time, for some live performances and the release of an album containing rare and previously unreleased material.

[9] Douglas composes and records music in his home studio and licensed some of his compositions to movie and TV companies.

Starting in 2016, Nick narrated two audiobooks for Native American novelist Craig Strete, The Bleeding Man And Other Science Fiction Stories and Paint Your Face On A Drowning In The River.