Zonda

Zonda was formed in mid 1999 and was active until 2006 . Yafit, lead singer and guitarist came up with the idea of creating a metal band that will be based on her written material, mainly acoustic songs. Unfortunately, she had to search for lead guitarists for about 3 years until she met Nathan Tubul, a lead guitarist which happened to be a student of Amnon Eini, the same guitar teachers of Yafit herself. They have been playing together for about a month and decided that the second lead guitarist is necessary. About a week after Shai Kalderon joined the band. Yafit songs were transformed from acoustic songs to metal songs. At that time, bassist Tomer Salman joined the band. His musical background was quite different; while Yafit, Shai and Nathan were into metal songs, Tomer was into funk/rock music. That turned out to be an advantage, since Tomer's touch on bass added just the right feeling. We were searching for a drummer and came up with Yoav Lahovitzki, a talented musician. Finally ZONDA was a real band. We were looking for an opportunity to perform. Were written and we had a 30 minutes set. ZONDAs first songs. Our first gig was at the Y.A club in Jerusalem at the 8.8.99. The crowd loved it and the few days later we had yet another gig at the Sergay club. We extended our set by adding new songs and covers and preformed at places such as The yellow submarine" & Pargod. Those gigs were very successful. We also preformed in metal festivals in Tel-Aviv at places such as "Asylum", "Maccabi music factory" and the "Camelot". During the years 1999-2001 we preformed a lot at many places and with many local bands. Interesting that most of them no longer exist. We really enjoyed that time but more important we thing the fans did. At mid 2001 Shai & Tomer had to join the army and the band struggled to exist. Not only, during that time second lead guitarist, Nathan Tubul, left the band because of personal problems. We had to search for a guitarist and came up with Shais brother, Yaniv, a well-known guitarist in Jerusalem today. At late 2002 drummer Yoav Lachovitzki moved to Amsterdam to study in a Jazz school. Several drummers played with us until we met current drummer, Shaltiel David. ZONDAs new line up was completed. The bands realesed a demo consist of 8 studio songs and 5 live recordings, and an acustic version to her song "Rise" .