N°24 ALMANA SHCHORA - THE ESCAPE

An Israeli heavy metal band founded in 1991 and, although only the lead singer, Eli Zulta, is the only surviver of the original band they're still performing. They had some trouble during the years though. Eli wrote most of the songs and lyrics in the early years but Assi Hason was the lead singer when they started playing. 

The year after being founded Almana Shchora recorded their first album though these songs and album was never to be released. Instead they started over in 1994 releasing the first newly recorded song called Look Into My Eyes. This song also never made to any further albums Eli and his crew would create. The band switched record labels and started back from scratch to finally annouce the birth of "Almana Shchora" in 1997. The album never made it into the charts but it got the band a huge amount of intrest in the Israeli heavy metal scene and thus a lot of gigs. A year later two founding members would quit but Almana Shchora would keep touring across the country hiring new band members to fill in the gaps. Another year later they would also loose their lead singer Assi Hason.

Eli found three new band members to re-founded the band and in 2003 they started to write new material in hopes of releasing a complete new album. Also this release would become problematic when they had to replace the drummer in the process. They decided to release a few songs for the fans while they had to wait for the complete new album. They released The Enemy in 2005 and another single called It's War Time in 2007. In 2008 Eli promissed his fans to finally release the album but more problems came up so only the song Blood Frogs saw the light. Then in 2010 they would finally be able to show the world the album Phantom Pain. This release was rewarded with a performance on Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzfest in Tel Aviv, Israël.

Oh yeah almost forgot to mention that Almana Shchora means Black Widow in Israeli language !