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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Tales of Grimm from the North Sea port city of Bremerhaven deliver death and thrash metal with a narrative edge, weaving dark fairy-tale imagery through aggressive compositions since 2020. Their name invokes the Brothers Grimm's darker tales, reflected in music that balances brutality with storytelling.
Tales of Horror from Bielefeld play heavy metal rooted in horror themes and macabre imagery, drawing from the classic tradition of bands who turned B-movie terror into riff-driven metal since 2014. Their sound channels the theatrical darkness of horror-obsessed metal from the unlikely setting of Ostwestfalen.
Tales of Perdition is a symphonic metal band from London, formed in 2019. Their music combines orchestral grandeur with heavy metal power, building dramatic compositions that live up to the epic scope suggested by their name.
Tales of Sorrow from Stuttgart blend heavy metal's power with gothic metal's dark romanticism, crafting melancholic, emotionally charged compositions since 2014. Their music pairs heavy riffing with atmospheric textures and introspective lyrics from the cultural capital of Baden-Württemberg.
Tales of the Bugaboo is a melodic death metal band from Fano in the Pesaro-Urbino province, Italy, formed in 2019. They combine death metal aggression with melodic guitar interplay and dynamic arrangements.
Tales of the Old is a symphonic power metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2021. Their music combines orchestral grandeur with the triumphant energy of power metal, drawing from Greece's rich tradition of epic and melodic metal.
Tales of Vates from France deliver power metal named after the Celtic class of prophetic poets, channeling bardic grandeur through soaring compositions since 2011. Their druidic reference frames epic, melodically rich power metal steeped in Celtic tradition.
Taleteller is a symphonic metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2014. They craft orchestrally rich metal compositions with dramatic arrangements and cinematic sweep.
Taliesyn from the Duderstadt and Oldenburg axis craft progressive metal named after the legendary Welsh bard, bringing literary and mythological depth to their complex compositions since 2023. Their approach marries prog-metal's structural intricacy with the poetic sensibility their bardic namesake demands.
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