Urban Tales

Urban Tales is a Portuguese rock music project based in Lisbon, with acoustic, heavy metal and gothic influences in their sound.

With the first 4 songs, the UT, attracted the attention of the media (mainly of the well-known Metal Incandescente blog), being even considered as one of the most promising national bands, by several specialized music sites.

With some options to edit the first album of originals, the band signed with the international Burning Star Records, thus ensuring distribution and promotion worldwide.

With João Correia performing and Rui Neto as main actor, the band reached a new level of exposure as several television channels such as MTV, SIC Radical and was considered one of the best music videos of the year.

During the recordings of the album Tiago Borges (bass) joined the band and in the summer Jota (drums) and Johnny (guitar) teamed up with Urban Tales.

In 2008, the project saw the creation of songs for the new album interrupted, when they received the invitation to create the Hymn of the Federation of Rare Diseases of Portugal (FEDRA).

The work was pre produced by Marcos and Urban Tales, recorded in the Academia Estúdios and mixed and mastered by Daniel Cardoso.

[6] The new single titled "The Name of Love", released digitally in 2016, and edited by Farol Música, reached the top spot in national iTunes chart, radio.

The Name of Love features an official video filmed in Dortmund and was recorded by actor / director Tadeuz Janewsky being Sonia Lakta the female actress.

The project premiered the song on Nilton's well-known RTP1 TV channel "5 Para a meia noite" show, where the main guest, was the prime minister, António Costa.

The video clip, was again made by Tadeuz Janewsky and addresses the issue of domestic violence,[7] a difficult subject in Portugal, at the time of the release of the single.

The single receives a lot of attention from national and international radios and even achieves the iTunes Portuguese chart The band released a lyric video on their official YouTube channel.

The single is a return to the rock/metal/gothic genre, and quickly received worldwide radio airplay, in countries like Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Canada, Portugal, Germany, USA, and many more.

Urban Tales at Fnack Chiado to present Alive single
Soundcheck for the "5 para a meia noite" TV program
Front man of the band Urban Tales, Marcos Cesar