John Segal met Erz Simon in 2001 and together with two friends, Joseph Everjill and Wolf Kash they formed a metal band and named it "Epidemic". The band switched line-ups several times, Joseph had joined the army and left after a year, regrouped with rest and today the band is in it's original line-up, and recorded two Studio demo albums in the last two years. At 2005 they recorded their first demo "Evil against Evil" including six songs, and two more tracks (intro and outro) by the band's drummer, Simon. The demo was recorded and produced by Alex Kashirin, Brother of Wolf Kash, and manager of the band at the time. After they released the demo, they took a short break for writing new material in 2006 they released another studio demo, "Earth Penitentiary" Recorded at "Studio Bagalil" By Haggy Bar. The single: "Six years old" will be featured in the compilation: "Israel Unleashed: The Best Rock And Metal From The Holy Land" Came out from Jewish Music Group (JMG) Today Epidemic is performing all over Israel, including Tell Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa And all the biggest and famous rock clubs in Israel. The band is also played by many radio stations over the net and some of the FM radio stations in Israel. In Dec06' the band recorded a new single, "The Man That Kills Himself ". A year after they Re-recorded a song from their first demo: "Then", for an Israeli metal compilation coming out on Raven Music in 2008