"Urban Tale - Signs Of Times"

"They trace the way to follow to make AOR come again out of the underground" - HMPortal.com "Urban Tale have lived up to my very high expections, of which I am very happy" - AOR Europe "Without doubt, one of the standout albums of 2001" - Heart of The Rock "Simple. All Journey and Steve Perry fans need this album now. This album is a smooth, soft-rocking, pure AOR monster" - Melodicrock.com "Perfect!" - Majestic Magazine "Highly recommended to all lovers of AOR and Melodic Rock!" - Ontherocks.net "This is the freshest music I´ve heard in a long time!" - BOBBY KIMBALL (Toto singer) Those excerpts from reviews of Urban Tale's debut album, which came out on Frontiers Records in June 2001, say almost all about the potential and the talent of those finnish guys!

Born in the autumn 1998 as a Journey cover band, they soon started to write their own material in the vein of Toto and Journey, with influences from other AOR and melodic rock US bands such as Chicago, Styx and Survivor. What was originally a project, had then evolved into a real band with an expertise on Melodic Rock and AOR styles with grand, majestic sound and massive vocals. After playing some live dates around their hometown Helsinki in Finland they recorded "One Day (I´ll Make You Mine)", which was released as a promotion single in June 2000. The single spread fast around Europe and resulted in rave reviews everywhere that praised the bands songwriting and musicianship The single also paved the way for negotiations with several record labels that approached the group.

Finally in September-2000 Urban Tale signed a production deal with Roastinghouse Productions. The band´s debut album was recorded during the late autumn 2000 in Malmö, with a majestic result which culminated in superb reviews (as witnessed above) and great acclaim from the melodic rock fan base. The band also appeared on several festivals including a storming performance in the GODS festival of 2001 in the UK and a spotlight in the Nemelrock festival in the year 2002 in Spain. Recording session for the second album started in the summer 2002 still under the guidance of the renowned team of Roastinghouse Productions in Malmo, Sweden. The resulting cd, "Signs of Times" is nothing else than an amazing masterpiece that restores the faith in pure melodic rock and hard rock with modern pop and even progressive edges. Urban Tale is NOT the band of the future, as their present times are already unmissable!

Urban Tale are: Kimmo Blom - Lead Vocals, Erkka Korhonen - Guitars, Backing Vocals, Tuomo Kovalainen - Bass, Backing Vocals, Timo Pudas - Keyboards, Kari Välimäki - Drums, Backing Vocals

www.urbantale.net - www.frontiers.it