Although this is the first album under the moniker TALES OF DELIRIA, they already released a demo and a full-length before, when their name was Deliriä. The style description mentioned above is only a first clue to classify the music of this talented band. The five Italians season this basis with elements of traditional and progressive Metal. Some passages even breathe a light industrial vibe. This sprawling mix works surprisingly well, not least because the right balance between brute musical force, technical skills and appealing melodies is found. The songs are never overloaded (such as Mercenary for example) and the flow is obtained over the entire distance. A remarkable share of it has shouter Orion who knows to deal with his variable vocal cords and thus enriches the musical spectrum further, whether it is the whispering voice in the right place or the intense, almost Black Metal-like screaming in the violent parts added by deep Death Metal growls. The modern but not too modern production goes ahead, nicely balanced and completely adequate for this kind of music. By the way, the mastering was done in the Finnish Finnvox Studios. Well, not every song reaches the same high level (otherwise an even higher rating would have been possible), but highlights as Under This Shroud (with simple but very effective guitar lead in the chorus), title track Beyond The Line (groove with variability) and A Snatched Love (great rollercoaster ride) show an enormous amount of potential and will.

With Beyond The Line TALES OF DELIRIA create no commodity and thwart (along with other bands such as Kingcrow and Gory Blister) the popular prejudice, that Italian bands only produce kitschy Symphonic Speed Metal, that is hardly to bear. Anyone who likes heavy and sophisticated tunes, alongside compact and relatively catchy, should try this disc!