The Fading

The Fading
The Fading Live 2017
Background information
Also known as	Excessum
Origin	Tel Aviv, Israel
Genres	Melodic death metal Thrash metal
Years active	2000–present
Associated acts	Hammercult, Eternal Gray, Acropolis, Arafel, Solitary, Matricide, Dissonant, Deface
Website	TheFading.com
Members	Ilia Badrov Paul Mitiyanine Eyal Ben Shushan Ran Shenkerman
Past members	Shaked Furman Arie Aranovich Elad Manor Jonathan Bar-Ilan Leon Notik Nadav Luzia Itamar Cohen Maor Bitton Boris Aranovich

The Fading is an Israeli based melodic death/thrash metal band, founded in 2000 under the name Excessum. The band released two EPs before winning the Wacken Open Air Metal Battle contest, earning them a contract with Wacken Records, where they released their debut album In Sin We'll Find Salvation on August 3, 2009.

The band started writing materials and playing together in 2000 by vocalist Ilia Badrov and guitarist Boris Aranovich. For several years, the lineup was in constant flux 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. After a while, 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 reworked versions of tracks taken from Instruction for Self Destruction. After Jonathan finished his job producing the new recording, he left the band and was replaced by Paul Mitiyanine (Arafel, Deface).