“Tantal” - band from Moscow (Russia), which plays Modern Progressive Death Metal! The band’s music combines a big part of aggressive and virtuosic Death Metal with multi-faceted melodies and progressive elements. The band’s female vocalist, Sofia Raikova, is an indisputable zest of the band. The style of her singing varies from powerful screaming and growling to a refined clean voice. In January 2007 the musicians released a promo-cd called «Emotional distress». The work has got a lot of positive comments and reviews from different Internet resources both in Russia and in Europe (in Czech Republic, Poland, Germany). The music of the début album “The Beginning Of The End”, recorded in 2008, is an original mixture of Progressive, Death, Thrash and Modern Metal, “spiced” with gloomy conceptual lyrics. In spite of technical skills, the material differs with its irrepressible drive and a great number of melodies. Because of this, long compositions are herd in a burst of inspiration. The super high-speed, but at the same time, expressive parts of the solo guitars are played in the best traditions of “Dream Theater” and Yngwie J.Malmsteen. And a frantic female screaming and growling singing, changed by a clear singing voice, will leave nobody indifferent. One of the best sound control supervisors, Eugene Vinogradov (“Day-Records” studio), who has worked with loads of famous Russian bands and German legend “Crematory” was responsible for sounding of the CD. The guests- musicians, who took part in recording of the album, are: - Andrew Smirnov (Paul DiAno (ex-Iron Maiden),“Master”, “Everlost”) recorded the solo to a title track of the album, and also he made some keyboard arrangements. - Alexander Dronov (“Valkyrie”, “End Zone”, “The Dynasty of the Devoted”) recoded and arranged most part of the keyboard parts for the album. He appreciably enriched and modernized the band’s sounding by that. - The guitarist of the Belgian Modern-Death-Metal band “In-Quest” Douglas Verhoeven became a special guest in the CD. He recorded the solo to the song “Controlled by hate”. The design of the CD is done at the highest levels by the famous Brazilian artist Gustavo Sazes, who worked with such giants of the metal stage as Gus G, “Firewind”, “Nightrage”, “Tribuzy” (the project with the participation of Bruce Dickinson from “Iron Maiden”), “Cryptopsy”, “SonicSyndicate”, “God Forbid”, “Almah”, “Krisiun” and many others. The artist carried out great work and consequently an idea of each song is reflected in separate illustration in the booklet. It lets a listener plunge into the music and mood of the album more deeply. Debut album “The Beginning Of The End” was released officialy by Russian metal label – Mazzar Records (www.mazzar.ru; www.myspace.com/mazzarrecords) and has got only positive responses from all over the world (Russia,Europe,UK,USA) In October 2009 guitarists Dmitry Ignatiev and Alexander Strelnikov became official representatives of ESP and LTD guitars in Russia! More info you can find at official Russian web-site of ESP Company: http://www.espguitars.ru/artists_tantal.html Official web site: www.tantalweb.ru MySpace page: www.myspace.com/tantalband