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Last Modified On 28 Jan 2008
Time Tells No Lies reviewed by Mikon on a day a long time ago

Hi all! I hope you've had a nice summer, and you're generally doing OK.

As for me I finally got my hands on "TTNL", and I say it is fantastic! Really brilliant I tell you, and I must have heard about 1000 bands so far, so I ain't just talking without knowing. The song writing is very typical of the era and also the attitude of the band, which for my money isn't something bad at all!, yet it ranks among the 4-5 best of its era! I think that Praying Mantis would have become a much bigger band than Def Leppard, something like Rainbow or even U.F.O. since their approach to melody didn't come at the expense of heaviness and this kind of crossover is what heavy metal needed back then, as far as I'm concerned. Provided that P.M. had reached the status ,their premier L.P. had shown they could reach, all this Metallica- thrash shit that reigned in the following, destructive for hard rock, years would have never come out of their garages and today Tino would be commenting on a talk show about Diana! (kidding of course).Anyway what I really want to say is that all the people involved with it, from the composers to the guy who was bringin' the beers can be fiercely proud about their involvement with this masterpiece.

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