Praying Mantis

Praying Mantis are returning to Sweden on 7 May 2011. Check out www.zaragonrockclub.se

Here is a round up off all the gigs currently have scheduled. We hope you can get along to one. The dates kick off tonight in Gravesend.

February 2011 will see Praying Mantis release a special limited edition EP to celebrate 30 years since the release of their critically acclaimed Album ‘Time Tells No Lies`. The EP will be titled ‘Metalmorphosis’ and include 5 songs some of which are from the original album re-recorded by the current Mantis line up.

The witches got their revenge and delayed the release of our Halloween treat for you.

Now for a limited period you can download the new single Witchhunt. Grab it while you can … if you dare!

We look forward to reading your reviews.

I recently had an e-mail from Dean Prezley who used to be in the band “Little Bo Bitch” that Steve Carroll was also a member of.  Dean would like to get in touch with previous band members. Sadly I have currently lost touch with Steve Carroll and I can’t recall who else asked me about the band some years ago so I thought I would add this note and then I can put members back in touch with each other if they are interest

Official Praying Mantis Merchandise is now for sale please email merchandise AT praying-mantis DOT com for details

My recommendations for buying Mantis albums outside of Japan on-line are as

follows:-
http://www.find-cd.co.uk/ is a good resource for finding cd’s at good prices
in the UK

http://www.booksprice.co.uk/ sometimes seems to find extra sources.

For the rest of the Japan stuff check out CD Gold. I find an E-mail asking for stuff works fine.

Vinyl Tap tends to have copies of the Live and singles Bootleg.

http://gemm.com/ Seems to be the best method of searching the Net for 2nd hand items.

For those of you that couldn’t make it to Sweden Rock yesterday here is Captured City. Enjoy It!

Photos from Sweden Rock have been added on Facebook. Start by looking at the following links:

Praying Mantis UK Rock

Praying Mantis – Dio Stage – Friday 11th June 2010

Praying Mantis – Rocklassiker Stage – Saturday 12th June 2010

Praying Mantis – Sweden Rock Misc

Praying Mantis – Fans at Sweden Rock

Praying Mantis are pleased to announce that in addition to there regular perform at 16.00* on Friday June 11th, they will be performing an unplugged show at 15.15* on Saturday June 12th.

Anyone that has seen the unplugged clips of Mantis in Japan will know this will be a show not to miss.

Sadly this means the gig at the Robin 2 in Bilston has had to be cancelled. It is hoped to play there sometime soon.

* For the full running order and any time changes please see the official Sweden Rock Website.