Not long since the predecessor "Forever in Time" has finally been released in Europe, it is followed by the millenium work of the melodic English crew and is regularly available in German CD stores. The style is similar to the lunacy of the precursor but the guitar solos can't fit to hold a candle to this one, I think.

The song material is not far away of it, though. The opener and the title song can write "AOR classic" on their flags, "Cruel Winter" is a song that creeps with fantastic keyboards slowly into your ears...! "The Clocktower" is pure philosophy: "Time hides the answers, time holds the truth, time is the enemy hidden from your youth; hode answers from my memories, part me from my soul, but the pendulum of life will carry on" - just the right thing for me! Guitar parts with Spanish flair with a soft singing and huge choirs like in "Whenever I'm Lost" are the points that make this album definitely better than the latest PRETTY MAIDS, although the Danish are walking the same soil with "Carpe Diem".

Tony O'Hora is a fantastic frontman who fits better into this kind of music than a Ronnie Atkins. Well, that is at least my opinion. So there is just one question left: why do PRAYING MANTIS sound live like a modern NWoBHM band and on studio albums they spread the feeling of a slim version of their past? Strange, but a fact.

Music: 8,5

Sound: 7,5

play time: 60:27

(PIRATE QUEEN)

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