Many Thanks to Mark Taylor for coming down and giving both his support and excellent review!!!

PRAYING MANTIS
MERTON MANOR CLUB, LONDON

What a good way to warm up for another year full of more gigs than with a low key warm up Praying Mantis gig before they head off to Japan for gigs in Tokyo and Osaka.

Japan has been kind to Praying Mantis over the years. Whilst the rest of the world was getting drenched in a sludge of grunge in the early nineties, the Japanese market was lapping up a trio of albums; ‘Predator In Disguise’, ‘A Cry For The New World’ and ‘To The Power Of Ten’ which kept the band very much alive.

MARK TAYLOR’S BIG CITY NIGHTS

HARD ROCK HELL V
Pontins, Prestatyn
2nd/4th December 2011

(**Many thanks to Mark Taylor for his fantastic review**)

Read the full Hard Rock Hell review here: http://www.metaltalk.net/columns/20101732.php

”Praying Mantis are a band who are going from strength to strength. In fact they are better now than they have ever been in their career. I thought that their brand of harmonic melodic rock might be too much for most sozzled minds on this graveyard shift but Praying Mantis soon captured everyone’s imagination as they gave a very well crafted and polished set.

Praying Mantis … finally!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_jcNQi1tzo

Yes, true, despite a whole year waiting, finally on Saturday 26N in Barcelona, true NWOBHM Legends were delivering a great show. Raven and Praying Mantis were headliners. Before, Bourbon Society, Wild and Tysondog were opening the festival METALCOVA IV.

Around 23:00 h local time, Praying Mantis went on scene and checking sound. After 20 minutes which seemed eternal, finally thumbs up from Tino and drummer.

Many thanks to Lee for this awesome review!

Check it out at the following link:

http://www.planetmosh.com/hard-rock-hell-v-%E2%80%93-village-of-the-damned-thursday-festival/

A distinctly positive review from Prestatyn, courtesy of the folk at CackBlabbath

Read it here: http://www.cackblabbath.co.uk/2011/12/04/hard-rock-hell-v-thursday/

PRAYING MANTIS/ STAMPEDE, The Peel, Kingston
14 May 2011

Get Ready To Rock

Photos by Moonshayde Photography

Stampede, photo by Moonshayde Photography

Both Stampede and Praying Mantis were thrown under the NWOBHM banner but neither were exactly heavy metal as such but played with a more hard melodic rock approach.

Both bands are experiencing a renewed interest. Praying Mantis recieved some rave reviews for their recent ‘Sanctuary’ release and have just revisited some old ground recording five older classics with their ‘Metalmorphosis’ EP.

STEVE GOLDBY’S HEAVY METAL CHRONICLES
KOBRA AND THE LOTUS, PRAYING MANTIS, JUDAS PRIESTER, TRIAXIS
27th June 2011

MetalTalk.net Official

The songs of Kobra And The Lotus deserve to be heard by a large audience and on the strength of this performance, that is bound to happen at some point in time.

But on Sunday evening in Camden there was a growing concern that The Barfly would be only half-full, or half-empty, depending on your outlook as Metalworks were playing five doors down in The Monarch, Eye Hate God were fifteen minutes walk away in The Koko and the hottest ticket in town, Alice Cooper at The 100 Club (click here for Johnny Churchill’s review…), would surely account for some of the inevitable lack of audience at The Barfly?

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