This is one of the best announcements I ever made.
Heavy metal monsters SABATON (Sweden) are going to play a single show in Barbie club Tel-Aviv, at September 12th, supported by DESERT and our dear friends, heavy/power metal band AFTERLIFE.
Sabaton, one of our favorite bands, sing of military courage, glory, shame, betrayal. They praise heroes and damn the traitors.
Majotity of their songs are about the World War II (which everyone with European or Russian roots will love - makes us remember one more time the endless courage of our grandfathers), but they have this very special song, Counterstrike, about the Six Day War.

Sabaton sings:

"..Six days of fire, one day of rest!
June 67 tought them respect
Control Jerusalem!"

As all of you have already heard, there's a huge, one-of-a-kind HALLELUJAH fest in less than two weeks - May 30th.
The event will host some of the best Israeli rock acts, such as Betzefer, The Fading, Edgend, and many, many more!
Naturally, Desert coudn't miss the opportunity to share the stage with these great bands, and deliever insanely intensive live show!
All the profits from the fest will be donated to fight against child abuse - we don't get paid at all, and this makes your presence absolutely obligatory!
This, and an unbelievaly low ticket price - it's 30NIS!!
A day long live metal madness for a price of a hamburger!
The event will take place at May 30th, the location is called "Kohav Shmeni (the eighth star)" in Herzliya.
Gates will open at 15:00.

Stay heavy, and remember - metal is all about living!

Hail metalheads!

Slowly, but steadily we conquer the mass media :)
Desert's Alexei Raymar was invited to take part in Metal Mania radio show
next Tuesday, May 20th.
The show is aired on Kol-ha-Kineret station (106Mhz FM), and features rocking playlists, insights on Israeli and foreign bands, show reviews, and much more - a great Heavy Metal broadcast, something hard to find on radio these days!

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 arrival of new drummer, and trust us, this guy is gonna show off, so be sure to watch it!
This is going to be something you probably didn't expect - a real Power Metal celebration, the whole night of lightning-fast riffs and real, clean power metal sound!

We weren't sure Desert would handle this amount of power by itself, so reinforcement is ready - our long-time friends, The Afterlife and Altharya will be there too!

The show is scheduled for March 29th,Saturday.
Gates open at 20:00 sharp, don't be late, as A&M is known for it's precision timing - we'll start the show with no delays, as we always do.
Entrance fee is as small as 50 NIS, so you can afford to get more beers, more merchendise, more fun!

So remember - March 29'th, 20:00. Unleash the Power!

Forever yours, A&M, Desert, Afterlife, Altharya.

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 drums, is into prog style of playing, and is going to rock with us!

You can check him out at his own mySpace page.

We are ready to perform at any moment, and it seems that soonest shows will be performed.

Welcome, the new member of our family, the battle rage is on!

Hail metal, Max, Oleg, Alexei, Vadim.

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 some of the best Israeli metal bands to the American audience.

This unique compilation brings you some of the finest local bands, giving a taste of the Israeli heavy metal scene, ranging from prog/death sound of ABED, through melodic doom tracks by DISTORTED, to DESERT's dark epic mood.

We are represented by our song called "Desert (In your soul)".
The complete track list is avaiable on Road Runner Records

This release will be out at November 27th,
produced by Dean Schachtel, and published by JMG.

Avaiable for on-line order at Jewish Music Group

Stay tuned, Desert.

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 longer contribute to Desert's journey to the top, because of personal difficulties.

Being an active part of Desert requires sacrifices to be made. Max walked our way for a long time, but eventually, he had to give up on too much to go on. Max is our close personal friend and is going to remain a part of Desert family forever.

We hope to work with him in future, using his incredible skills in our future solo projects.
He was a driving force behing our drum throne - we would not be able to release "Prophecy Of The Madman" without him.

Currently, Desert is ready to perform and record, with help of our friend and great session drummer Matan Shmuely.

We suffered a great loss, but the show must go on.
If you are a skillful drummer, and have enough guts to join Desert both on stage and in studio - contact us, and maybe you will become our fifth brother for years to come!

The madness never stops - it's just looking for fifth victim...

Max, Oleg, Vadim, Alexei.

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, you were really crazy out there, and we enjoyed playing like never before! Your energy was so high it made us shred our strings and keys like maniacs!

Desert salutes Salvation, the band who stood by our side that night, the show wouldn't happen without these guys.

Special thanks to Guy Nakash (Salvation, Metalist) for co-producting the show with A&M Releases.

Special guest, Matan Shmuely (Distorted, Moonskin, Stella Maris), cared to come all the way across Israel, and take over the drum throne to blast the living shit out of subwoofers!

Hail Strident, the thrash band who supported our show like no band ever did - 'thrash 'till death' is not just beautiful phrase with these guys!

Finally, I personally thank the whole production crew - we are lucky to work with true metal warriors!

All photos from the gig you can find here.

You can't stop the madness - it's IN THE AIR NOW!

A&M Releases puts out some new merch for you to enjoy - this time it's Desert stickers to place on your car, guitar, front door or whatever you wish! Vynil-covered, with custom graphics, these are worth having!

Hail Insane!

We're happy to announce addition of new Desert T-shirts to our merchandise arsenal!
These shirts have custom-designed graphics of high quality, L and XL sizes are in stock now. You can order any size you want through A&M Releases.
The new shirts will be available for purchase at our next show, the open air night in Beer-Sheva, so there's another reason to show up for you!

Stay extreme, Desert band!

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 ha-Zairim" - Beer-Sheva's old city). Gates open at 19:00 sharp. It's an Open Air!

This time we've teamed up with Salvation, one of the oldest Goth metal bands in Israel, to bring you proper celebration of Desert's 5 years old Birthday.

Our production unit A&M Releases and Salvation's RockLab put together the most furious dark metal show you can imagine, and that's why famous and totally insane drummer Matan Shmueli (Stella Maris, Distorted, Azazel) is joining us to take over the drum throne and kick the sh!t out of the subwoofers! Strident (old school thrash) are also helping out to make sure you aren't keeping your sanity that night!

Entrance fee is 30 NIS (25 NIS if you pre-order), there are organized trips avaiable from the Northern and Central Israel.

A&M promised to provide special birthday discount on the merchandise, so be sure to grab some extra cash for CD's and shirts!

We are counting days till the show.. The madness has begun - it goes live!

Two new videos from the last gig were uploaded to the media section.
Its "Sacred Throne" and the brand new song called "Release Me".

You can check these here.

Enjoy and stay heavy...
DESERT

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 went insane and delievered as fierce playing as humanly possible.
The energy was about to blast the place!

Desert also wants to thank Matan Shmueli, who kicked the crap out of the drums and rocked with the band on stage, bands Edgend and Requiem for Dawn for giving all they had to offer (and this was alot!)

Huge thanx to Guy Nakash (Salvation,Metalist) for helping with tech stuff at the gig, and Felius (Arafel), who was responsible for running perfect lights for dark epic metal show!

Also thanx to Koltura sound crew and Or Musman for taking care of tech aspects for Desert's album launch.

Pictures from the show here

Stay heavy, Alexey, Oleg, Max S, Vadim, Max B.

Desert was inited to appear on air of nationwide-broadcasting station, the 89.1 FM!
Alexei Raymar and Max Shafranski will visit the studio this friday to take part in live metal broadcast one hour long!

The shedule includes an interview, as well as putting brand new tracks from "Prophecy..." on air.

You will have a great opportunity to hear the band's comments on Thursday's Prophecy of the Madman launch show (check out the "live dates" section of the site!)

So don't miss it - tune your stereos to 89.1FM this friday, Feb 2nd, 15.00-16.00 hrs to find out whether your FM reciever can handle this heavy metal blast!

Stay insanely heavy!

Desert's lead singer Alexei Raymar was recently interviewed by Metalist's writer, Alon Myasnikov.
You can check the outcome of conversation on magazine's web site www.metalist.co.il
Alexei talks about newest dark power metal album "Prophecy of the Madman", Desert's live activity, and shares thoughts about local heavy/power metal scene.
You can also read a brief story of Desert's way to honor, told by the band's frontman.

Check out the magazine's web site often for updates on Desert and other metal warriors who rock with us!

Stay extreme!

It's been only few weeks since Desert's brand new record hit the metal scene, and already magazines from all over the world put out their reviews on latest dark power metal tracks around!

Metal Observer has published a long review in English, so fans from any corner of the world can read what Canadian metal heads think of "Prophecy..."

PowerMetal.de tries to keep up the pace, so they wrote a review too.
Unfortunately for most of you, it is in German. You can still read it using any online translation engine you choose.
Hey, I've read it, so you can do it too!

Finally, Layla.co.il published a brief one in Hebrew.

If you find more reviews we don't know about - write us.

Stay metal, and check in for more soon!

Hail metalheads!

We are finally announcing the date for our next Tel Aviv show.

The metal will be played heavy and sharp in Koltura Club (Herzl st. 154 gates open at 20:00), at February first.
Edgend (beautiful and heavy Progressive Metal) and Requiem for Dawn (Hardcore/Progressive Metal) are gonna be joining us to make the night even more extreme.

Unfortunately, our drummer Max Balagula won't be able to rock with us that night, but we are helped out by Matan Shmueli (Distorted, Azazel, Moonskin), known for his explosive sound, who will take over the drum throne. Dont get too upset, coz I assure you - Matan will blast the f**k out of the drumset as furiously as Max does.

Entrance fee is 50NIS.
Our new album CD's will be sold at the location, and A&M even mentioned a discount, so bring some extra cash for these and for beer!

We're all set to go and can't wait to hit the TA stage to deliever fierce heavy metal experience.

The madness has begun - it goes live!