THE FADING

The band started writing materials and playing together in 2000 by vocalist Ilia Badrov and guitarist Boris Aranovich. For several years, the line-up was in constant change while the band was looking for the right musicians for them. Finally Boris recruited his younger brother Arie Aranovich (then only 14 years old). He has joined as the lead guitarist, while Itamar Cohen joined on drums and Maor Bitton on the bass. Boris was replaced by Leon Notik (previously in Arafel) on the guitars after 2002. Some more time passed and Itamar could not continue with the band, and Nadav Luzia took his place for a while. Not after long, Nadav and Maor were both replaced by drummer Shaked Furman and bassist Elad Manor.
In 2005 the band entered the studio with producer Daniel Varfolomeyev (Acropolis) to record their debut EP Instruction for Self Destruction. By the time the recording and mixing of the EP has finished, Leon was replaced by Jonathan Bar-Ilan (of Dissonant).
In spring 2007, the band entered Jonathan's studio to record the promotional EP Chaos in Flesh. Produced by Jonathan himself and mixed by Swedish musician and producer Jonas Kjellgren (Scar Symmetry, Carnal Forge) at his own Black Lounge Studio, Chaos in Flesh featured 3 crushing new tracks and 2 re-recorded and improved versions of tracks taken from Instruction for Self Destruction.
After Jonathan finished his job producing the new recording, he left the band. His position was taken by Paul Mitiyanine (Arafel, Deface).
Since then, The Fading have been playing in many venues around Israel with leading Israeli acts like Betzefer, Whorecore, Eternal Gray, etc.
On May 22, 2008, the band participated in the Israeli Wacken Metal Battle competition in which the participating bands competed over a place at the WET stage at the annual Wacken Open Air festival, the biggest heavy metal festival in the world.
The Fading competed against such bands as Acropolis, Breorn, Sexes and Vipress and won.[1]
On August 1, 2008, the band represented Israel at the Wacken Metal Battle competition, competing against other European countries. This is a rare achievement for Israel as the band is the second Israeli band ever to perform at Wacken Open Air after doom/death veterans Orphaned Land in 2006.
On August 2, 2008, at the end of the Wacken festival it was announced that The Fading are the winners of the Wacken Metal Battle competition.[2] The band won an international record deal with Wacken Records,[3] and new instruments from the Metal Battle sponsors, as well as invitations to play more European festivals in the upcoming year.
In January 2009, the band left for Västerås in Sweden to record their first full-length album for Wacken Records at the Studio Underground. Mixing and mastering of the album is done by Jonas Kjellgren (Scar Symmetry, Carnal Forge) at his Studio Abyss.
The band's debut full-length album, entitled In Sin We'll Find Salvation is due for release on August 1, 2009 in Germany, in the Wacken Open Air festival (where the band will perform again), and August 3, 2009 in the rest of Europe. It was produced by Pelle Saether (Ebony Tears, Necrodeath, Carnal Forge), with artwork provided by the talented British artist Colin Marks (Nevermore, Strapping Young Lad, Aborted).
The band completed their first European tour on the Infecting Nations Tour with Evile and Warbringer, through January–February 2010.[4]
On March 27, 2010, the band released their debut album In Sin We'll Find Salvation in their homeland Israel, in a special release show in Tel Aviv, featuring special guests Tomer Jones of Whorecore, Sven de Caluwé of Aborted and Oren Balbus of Eternal Gray.[5]
On November 5, 2010, the band supported Ensiferum on their only show in Israel at the Barby club in Tel Aviv.[6][7]
On November 26, 2010, the band released their first music video for the single "The Sin Collector" off their debut album In Sin We'll Find Salvation.[8]
In December 2010, the band went on another short European tour, playing mainly UK dates supporting The Rotted and Desecration, and the Bang Your Head Festival in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. This followed a 3-date Israeli tour co-headlining with The Rotted in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem, and featuring Israeli support bands.
On May 5, 2011, the band played as a supporting act for Misery Index on their one-off show at the Sublime club in Tel Aviv, Israel.[9][10] On May 12, 2011, the band went on their first headlining tour of Ukraine, dubbed as the Wind of the Other Side Tour, the tour consisted of 11 dates co-headlining with Russian symphonic black metal band Little Dead Bertha, taking place between May 12–22, 2011.[11][12]
On October 30, 2011, as a consequence of their successful performances earlier that year, the band returned to Kiev, Ukraine to support the Swedish melodic death metal giants In Flames. After the concert with In Flames, they rushed back to their homeland to be the supporting act for Children of Bodom on their one-off show at the Barby club in Tel Aviv, Israel, on November 3, 2011[13]. On January 11, 2012, it was announced that the band will be supporting another major melodic death metal band, Arch Enemy, on two shows in Russia, to take place on January 28–29, 2012, at Moscow and Saint Petersburg.[14]
On August 13, 2012, it was announced that guitarist Arie Aranovich and bassist Elad Manor, who also play together in the Israeli thrash metal band Hammercult, will be leaving The Fading.[15][16]
On September 27, 2012, the band announced their newest band members: Alex Zvulun on guitar, and Eyal Ben Shushan (of Eternal Gray) on bass. They have also announced that they're currently in the preparations stage of the recording of their second album.[17]