Asphodelia have released River, River, and the reading they give the myth is the whole reason to listen.
Daphne, pursued by Apollo, begs her father the river god Peneus for help and is turned into a laurel tree. The usual telling makes that a tragedy, a woman destroyed rather than taken. This band make it a decision. "Sometimes, survival means becoming something no one can ever possess," they say, and the song is built around resistance and rebirth rather than loss.
Musically it is dark symphonic metal with the orchestration kept cinematic and the Mediterranean element audible rather than decorative, which for an Italian band is simply what is to hand.
Unfairy Tales runs nine tracks and forty six minutes, all of them taken from mythology, and it is their second album after Welcome Apocalypse in 2018. Stefano Morabito mixed and mastered it at 16th Cellar.
Kraempus Records put the song out, and the album was recorded at Walls of Sleep. Eight years between albums is a long time for a band to keep the same idea in view, and the mythology has held across both.