TANTAL was formed in 2004. The musicians define their style as a mixture of Progressive and Melodic Death Metal.
Founders of the band are Dmitry Ignatiev (Everlost, Flash Of Aggression, ex-Rest In Pain, ex-Fatal Band), Alexander Bessilin), Michael Krivuletz, Vyacheslav Gurovoy.
In 2005, talented singer Sofiya Raykova, has joined the band. Her voice has become essential part of the band's music.
At the beginning of 2007 the band recorded promo-cd «Emotional Distress». Music on this album is a mix of melodic and aggressive Death Metal with progressive elements, and of course there is an excellent female growl sometimes changed by clean voice.
After that for the personal reasons Alexander Bessilin left the band. Now, Alexander Strlnikov (ex-Rosa Infra, ex-Stentorian Voice) takes up a place of the second guitarist.
In the end of 2008 the first album «The Beginning Of The End» was recorded! The music of the debut 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. One of the best sound control supervisors, Eugene Vinogradov «Day-Records»), 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 (U.D.O., ex-Master, Everlost) recorded the solo to a title track of the album, and also he made some keyboard arrangements. Alexander Dronov (Valkiriya, 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 Arch Enemy, James Labrie,Firewind, Nightrage, Cryptopsy, Sonic Syndicate, God Forbid etc.
On March 30th, 2009 the album «The Beginning Of The End» was released by Russian Indie label Mazzar Records
The band gives a lot of performances in Russia, and also supported foreign bands at their Moscow gigs: legendary Italian band «Sadist» and Techno-Death band from Sweden - «Anata». The band has also released a concert video clip for the song called «Suicide» from their debut album which is now rotated at the First Metal Music Television channel in Russia «1 Rock TV», Ukrainian Music channel "End of Silence" and famous Russian alternative music channel «A-One». You can check the video at Tantal's You Tube chnnel.
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.
Musicians have filmed demoinstration of their guitars special for Russian ESP website:
In the beginning of the 2010 debut album was released in UK by «Raven Heart Music Records» label, and also got worldwide distribution with the help of promotional agencies in Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Mexico («Dig Metal World» agency), in Italy («Rock Metal Bands» agency) and India («Six Inch Nail Records» agency). Also the album is available worldwide by the means of on-online store «CD Baby».
In 2011 Alexander Strelnikov became the official representative of the famous "AMT Electronics" company, which produces guitar preamps, cabinets, effects and accessories: www.amtelectronics.com.
Also, in 2011 the band started tracking of the second full-length album called "Expectancy", but as a result of some differences of opinion Sofia left the band...After some abortive attempts to find the right man (during 2012-2013) the rest of participants decided to record the album with a guest vocalist Vlad Lobanov ("Vector Of Underground"), who did an excellent job and recorded all extreme vocals for "Expectancy".
In summer 2013 the band announced their new female vocalist Milana Solovitskaya.