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Desert

Dark Epic Metal

About Me

Desert was founded in 2002 in one of Israel’s industrial and cultural centers, the city of Beer-Sheva. The name Beer-Sheva stands for "seven wells", the roots of the name and the city itself downcome to the pre-biblical era, approximately 4000-3500 b.c.

There, in the heart of ancient culture, the creative union of guitarist Max Shafranski, drummer Den Kovalev, bassist Alexei "Kid" Surpin, Rem Kozlov (guitar) and Anna (female vocals) was born. This was the band’s first line-up. However, the most significant thing this line-up has contributed to the band was it’s name - "Desert". The name was chosen as the symbol of geographical situation of the band - it was located in the middle of biblical sands where Moses had led his people to the Promised land ages ago.

The band started gigging with it’s own material right away. During next several years the band played in various places ranging from small clubs to open air biker festivals, all over the country. Desert tried several directions, which resulted in firing the female singer and the second guitarist.
Fortunately, replacement was found soon - singer Alexei Raymar joined the band,as well as a young (age 16 at the time) keyboardist Oleg Aryutkin. The band finally defined their style by bringing raw, powerful baritone vocal and shaped the mix by adding keyboards. This line up worked out really well - the band started playing in better, bigger clubs in Tel Aviv, new songs had a unique, distinguished direction.

Desert recorded their first demo, "The Way to Honor" in November 2004. The release received good responses nation and worldwide. Songs scored some internet rotation and positive reviews by web magazines all over the world.
One of the tracks, "More than my Life", even made it to the top 5 of european Goth Metal Radio’s song competition. Greek label ’Secret Port records’ made the release available for purchase in the EU.

During the next year two of the original band members left the band - bass player Alexei ’Kid’ Surpin was replaced by locally famous thrash metal band "Ground Zero"s leader singer/bassist Vadim Shulman, and drummer Den Kovalev was replaced by Max Balagula.

First live show after the substitute made it clear that Desert advanced to a new level, reviews and fan reaction were beyond expectation, confirming that the band is able to deliver furious heavy metal experience from stage.

It was the right time for a full scale record to come out. Desert recorded new material in Tel Aviv’s Mantra studios. Felius, israeli extreme metal star, honored the band by mixing and mastering the record.
"Prophecy of the Madman", Desert’s latest release is a maxi-EP featuring sharp and heavy, yet mysterious and melodic power metal.

Right now Desert is constantly keeping itself in top shape to make every show its best ever and give the fans what they’re looking for.


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Member Since: 12/29/2006
Band Website: desertband.com
Band Members:

Max Shafranski - Guitars

Alexei Raymar - Vocals

Vadim Shulman - Bass

Oleg Aryutkin - Keyboards

Zohar Telor - Drums


Influences: Manowar, Grave Digger, Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Rage, Stratovarius, Helloween, Moonspell, Dark Tranquillity, Hammerfall, Kamelot, Sentenced
Record Label: A&M Releases
Type of Label: Indie

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Tel-Aviv Live Show announced! See details...

Hail metalheads! Once again we are preparing a conspiracy against pop music... The production team, A&M Releases, has provided the details for next Tel-Aviv perfomance. Desert is celebrating the a...
Posted by Desert on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:59:00 PST

Zohar Telor - the new member of our family!!!

We are thrilled to finally deliever the good news - DESERT have just made the decision to invite the new drummer to join the band - and he accepted!His name is Zohar Telor, he kicks the hell of of the...
Posted by Desert on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:15:00 PST

"Israel Unleashed" compilation featuring Desert to be released in the US on Nov. 27th!

Greetings fellow metalheads!We're proud to announce that one of the songs from 'Prophecy of the Madman' EP is going to be released in the US as part of "Israel Unleashed" compilation, which presents s...
Posted by Desert on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:17:00 PST

IMPORTANT - Desert is looking for drummer.

    We are sad to announce that Desert had to part musical ways with our long time friend and drummer Max Balagula.     Unfortunately for all of us, Max could no long...
Posted by Desert on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:33:00 PST

One Hot Summers Night show report.

Hail metal fanatics!The band thanks all of you who were insane enough to come and see our Beer-Sheva show, July 19th, and celebrate Desert's birthday together!Under the skies, it was hot, it was loud,...
Posted by Desert on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:48:00 PST

One Hot Summer's Night - 19.07.07 !!!

Hail headbangers! One hot summer's night, metal will be blasting all over the town while we crank the kilowatts up to make your heads go bang!Join us July 19th at the Amphitheatre ( Herzl 12, 'Merkaz ...
Posted by Desert on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:17:00 PST

New videos from the last gig!

Two new videos from the last gig were uploaded to our official website. Its "Sacred Throne" and brand new song called "Release Me". You can check these here: www.desertband.com..media.htm &n...
Posted by Desert on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:25:00 PST

Pictures from "Prophecy Of The Madman" launch

New pictures from our last gig, "Prophecy Of The Madman" launch are available here: http://www.eve.mastersland.com/ The pics came out great, and they really can give you an idea of how insane the...
Posted by Desert on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:48:00 PST

Album launch show report

The band thanks all the metalheads who had the guts to jump into metal madness and came to Desert's album launch last thursday, feb. 1st. It was truly amazing to play for such a crazy crowd, the band ...
Posted by Desert on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:20:00 PST

Desert appearance on FM waves!

Desert was invited to appear on air of nationwide-broadcasting station for Russian speakers, the 89.1 FM!Alexei Raymar and Max Shafranski will visit the studio this friday to take part in live metal b...
Posted by Desert on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:28:00 PST