Epidemia

The beginning of the history of the Epidemic group can be attributed to the distant 1991. The fragile young man, later known as Yuri Melisov, was spotted at the airfield in Tushino on September 28 at a concert by Metallica and AC / DC. This event aroused in the guy an irresistible desire to play in some heavy team himself. With great pleasure, Yura began to visit the notorious "Red Khimik" a couple of times a week, and already in the winter he got his first electric guitar. In the spring of 1992, an offer was received to play in a group that did not have a name and a specific style. Its leader, Vadim Zaitsev, perfectly expressed his emotional experiences in the lyrics. Yura was immediately imbued with the lyrics and even managed to write music for three songs by Vadim called "The Strangler With a Gloomy Soul", "Dance of the Dead" and "Mad Maniac". It should be noted that the then musical ideas of Yura fully corresponded to Vadim's poems. Thus, the future founder of "Epidemic" improved his skills until the summer of 1993, until the project itself died out. The turning point in Yura's life was meeting Aram, a 35-year-old emigrant guitarist from Armenia. An old lover of Deep Purple and Santana opened Yura's eyes to the rock art of the 70s. Soon, after several rehearsals, the song "Phoenix" was born - the first real hit of the then unnamed group. The author of the song was Aram, and Yura came up with a fun ending for it and wrote a new text. After some time, bassist Dmitry Shcherbakov and drummer Mikhail Yeltsov joined the band. By February 1994, four songs were ready: "Phoenix", "Devils Dreams", "New Day", as well as the slow composition "Come Back".