ANTHEA – Tales Untold

August 23, 2022 Bryce Van Patten Album Reviews, Reviews 0
Anthea - Tales Untold album cover
  • 8.4/10
    ANTHEA - Tales Untold - 8.4/10
8.4/10

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Label: Rockshots Records
Release date: August 26, 2022

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Top Notch Prog Metal From Los Angeles

With the release of the band’s 2nd full length album Tales Untold, Anthea has outdone themselves and created a fantastic new collection of songs to more than make fans of the genre happy. Originally formed in 2015 as a recording project by vocalist/keyboardist Diego Valadez and drummer Peter Vasquez, Anthea quickly became more than a side gig. With the addition of guitarists Juan Pina and Marcos Mejia, and bassist Eric “EJ” Guerrero, the band has developed into a tour de force of Melodic/Symphonic/Progressive Metal with hints of Thrash thrown in for good measure.

Tales Worth Telling

The new release Tales Untold has 9 new songs and one cover, with the majority of the material being the brainchild of vocalist/keyboardist Diego Valadez, with 2 tracks co-written with Marcos Mejia. The album is self-produce by Valadez, and sounds amazing. Favorite tracks for this reviewer are “Tales Untold” and “Song for Winter”.

Final Notes

With such a strong second release, fans of Anthea have a lot to be happy about. Tales Untold has the sound of a veteran band with top notch production, and really great song writing skills. Fans of Dream Theater, Kamelot, Nightwish, and Wintersun will all find something great here, and a reason to make Anthea one more band to follow. Tales Untold is definitely worth adding to your music collection.

Lineup

Diego Valadez – Vocals/Keys
Juan Pina – Guitar/Screams
Marcos Mejia – Guitar
Eric Guerrero – Bass
Peter Vasquez – Drums

Tales Untold – Tracklist

01. Tales Untold
02. Ascendance
03. Song for Winter
04. The Deceiver
05. Sapiens
06. Memoriam
07. Looking Glass
08. Empyrean
09. Sunder Heart
10. In Time

Author

  • Bryce Van Patten

    Bryce is an audio engineer and a graphic designer here at Metal Express Radio. From the day he purchased his first album (Machine Head by Deep Purple), he has had a passion for heavy music, which has influenced his whole life. Bryce is from the great Pacific Northwest in USA, and has played in metal bands like Babylon, Holy Terror, The Wild Dogs, Warhead and Egypt through the 80s. He had his first interview for the Portland, Oregon publication The Rock Rag with guitarist Paul Gilbert in his Racer X days. Then he was honored to get to have drinks, and talk for an hour with the legendary Dan McCafferty of Nazareth for his second interview. In 2013, he spent an amazing hour talking to Andi Deris of Helloween, which was the high point of his heavy metal journalism.   In the year 2001, he formed Man in Black Music Publishing. They released recordings by several local bands, and in the spirit of the old Metal Massacre compilations, he created a 2-album series called The Defenders of Metal. The albums featured classic styled Metal bands from all around the world, with bands from Australia to England, and from Argentina to Russia. Currently, he is the producer/creator/vocalist of the Metal band The Black Tuesdays.

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