Some events you just attend and enjoy. Some events you do not. Some events, you'll remember for a long time. And the following event, will be burned into my soul, and knowledge for the rest of my life.

For me, DEATH was a band that started it all. My passion for Metal. My passion for guitars and was my real opening shot of becoming a musician. But before everything, the band DEATH revealed me a new world of the subgenre Death Metal - the crushing, powerful, amazing Death Metal subgenre. Subculture. Even, I might dare to say, a whole new lifestyle.

Let's start from the aspect of the performers in this amazing evening we had. Featuring the band SEPARATION ANXIETY as the band that will perform the covers with many guests. I can say, this band rocked the Old school Death Metal like DEATH before, and I wouldn't think of anyone more deserve in whole of Israel to play in a tribute than this band.
 

Featuring the following musicians as well - Yotam Defiler of PREY FOR NOTHING, Ben Sa'ada of CANINE, Oren Balbus of Ex-ETERNAL GREY, Denis Yanni of CHUGUN, Alex Zvulun of THE FADING, Aviv Hadari and TZ Sky and Roco of MAGOR, Shaked Furman of ACROPOLIS, Sa'ar Tubi of CAPILLARIES, the band members of SEPARATION ANXIETY - Assaf Kassimov, Slava Fedorow, Andrey Kudnetsov and Alex Kirmayer, and of course - the legendary drummer Hannes Grossman - As seen in the bands OBSCURA, NECROPHAGIST and BLOTTED SCIENCE.

Before the start of the show in the great venue called The Barby Club - a place for alternative culture as well as mainstream culture of Israel, they held a drummers lesson by Hannes Grossman, and he talked a lot about techniques of drumming in Metal. Excuse me for being anything but a drummer, I followed most of what he said but lost him from time to time. Except for listening to this lecture, I enjoyed as much as the lecture from the drum solos he performed in that lesson. Even the fact that I am not a drummer, listening to this brilliant musician gave me something much bigger than just few more tools to write down drums. It gave me motivation. It inspired me for more music to be created at my home studio. It brought the depths of the biggest names in the subgenre Death Metal into my own sight and my own hearing, and gave me even more tools for life.
 

Despite the fact that I had a shitty week, I have to admit, I enjoyed it there even more for the fact that It opened me up to a great weekend, listening to the best of DEATH like "Suicide Machine", "Crystal Mountain", And "Pull The Plug", and many more.

Let's start from the main aspect of the band that performed during all the evening - SEPARATION ANXIETY. Those guys rocked before, but they rocked even harder this evening. Their style is similar to DEATH, and the lord will forgive me - They are probably as good as DEATH Themselves, because when I heard and saw them performing live at the Barby Club, I had no doubt - this is the greatest replacement of the band DEATH I could see in my own eyes, for my entire life. I was definitely not disappointed.

Performing Yotam Defiler always amazes me, every time, again and again. His powerful voice, and strong stage performance delivers you exactly what it's all about - Death Fucking Metal. No compromises. No thoughts. No Questions. Ben Saada, However, gives a higher tone in vocals which is very likely to the later albums of Death, making him the perfect vocalist to perform songs from "Human" and etc.
 

Denise of CHUGUN is a real killer. She is hot, she is loud, and she will kick you in the face. Hailing all the way from the world of the Death Thrash, this girl came to kick ass. With her ginger hair, big smile and amazing voice she could deliver us exactly what we would want to hear - a strong, loud, amazing female front man that grabs the band from its nuts and pushes it forward. Aviv Hadari of MAGOR gave us a little different feel, but performed well. He is the front man of the Black Metal giants of Israel which performed this year at the Wacken Metal Battle, and it was exciting to see him, and Roco and TZ as well. As well, I can say that.
 

It was also been a pleasure to watch the best names of the New Wave Of The Israeli Metal as I like to call it, performing live on stage - members of bands such as CAPILLARIES, and MAGOR, and CHUGUN and many more. I can say, there is a lot to hear from everyone that performed there, and from the Progstage Productions Company as well.

Summing up everything in few decent words, I dare to say - Chuck Schuldiner himself watched at us from his cloud and grinned.
 

1. 1000 Eyes
2. Bite The Pain
3. Zero Tolerance
4. Lack Of Comprehension
5. Scavangers Of Human Sorrow
6. Overactive Imagination
7. Flattening Of Emotions
8. Trapped In A Corner
9. Without Judgement
10. Spirit Crusher
11. Jealousy
12. Suicide Machine
13. Empty Words
14. Symbolic
15. The Philosopher
16. Spiritual Healing
17. Crystal Mountain
18. Evil Dead
19. Pull The Plug