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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Get Ready To Rock.com Bridgefest Review (Praying Mantis, Dennis Stratton & OD Saxon) …………………… OLIVER DAWSON SAXON/DENNIS STRATTON/ PRAYING MANTIS Bridgehouse II, London, 30 August 2009 Thirty years ago the new wave of British Heavy metal (NWOBHM) was alive and…