Metal Invader – (Greece): Sanctuary Review
http://www.metal-invader.com/db/reviews-5818.html Praying Mantis – 5 Sanctuary (Frontiers Records) Total Time: 50:58 Mantis did it again man. Yes I would expect nothing by those British pioneers of electric Rocking melody than another catchy, hard as a rock and melodic masterpiece. Sanctuary is already on my top ten list with the albums of the year. Why? Because […]
Get Ready To Rock.com Bridgefest Review (Praying Mantis, Dennis Stratton & OD Saxon)
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 well here in Canning Town East London at the Bridgehouse in East London, where the […]
Metal Discovery 3 Part IV with Chris Troy
http://www.metal-discovery.com/Interviews/prayingmantis_interview_2009_pt1.htm PRAYING MANTIS 20th August 2009 CHRIS TROY METAL DISCOVERY: How you doing? CHRIS TROY: Good, good, not too bad thank you very much. “…that is a superb feeling when it occurs. It’s better than sex, you know…well, some sex anyway!” (Chris Troy on the euphoria of composing a good song) Photograph copyright © 2008 […]
Digital Steel – Netherlands ‘Sanctuary’ review
Digital Steel – Netherlands http://www.digital-steel.com/DS/index.php?headpage=albumrevs&id=1414 Praying Mantis 01. In Time 02. Restless Heart 03. Tears In The Rain 04. So High 05. Turn The Tide 06. Touch The Rainbow 07. Threshold Of A Dream 08. Playing God 09. Highway 10. Sanctuary After years of playing their classics live on stage, British hard rockers Praying Mantis […]
Class X Rock vote Praying Mantis as No. 3 in rotation airplay
Class X Rock vote Praying Mantis as No. 3 in rotation airplay Check this out: Mantis get no 3 in US class x rock station Cincinnati rotation airplay ! Request using the link below and push them up 🙂 http://www.classxradio.com/displayPage.php?pageId=1
Spirit Of Metal Review France
Spirit Of Metal Review France http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/album-groupe-Praying_Mantis-nom_album-Sanctuary-l-en.html Praying Mantis are a proper old school heavy metal band, formed back in 1979 in the UK. Their newest album ‘Sanctuary’ has come after a gap of 6 years since their last full length ‘The journey goes on’, and they deliver an excellent, rocking album full of soaring riffs, […]
Metalized Magazine Denmark ‘Sanctuary’ review
Metalized Magazine Denmark ‘Sanctuary’ review – big thank you to Ole Bach 🙂 http://www.metalized.dk/ PRAYING MANTIS Sanctuary 10/10 Praying Mantis got together way back in 1977 by the two brothers Tino and Chris Troy and they are still in the band. Very impressive because the band through the years have changed line up many times, […]
Merlin Prog (Norway) 'Sanctuary' review
–http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=no|en&u=http://www.merlinprog.com/england.htm Praying Mantis ‘Sanctuary’ With new vocalist takes Praying Mantis rate again and delivered NOK a slice that is firmly in the melodic hard rock his world, and “Sanctuary” is the first in six years Sometimes it is all a little way into the commercial world, but vocalist Mike Freeland and use songs saves this […]
Art Rock Sweden – 'Sanctuary' review
http://www.artrock.se/artrock2009/recension2009_132.htm PRAYING MANTIS – SANCTUARY (Frontiers Records) 1.In Time 2.Restless Heart 3.Tears In The Rain 4.So High 5.Turn The Tide 6.Touch The Rainbow 7.Threshold Of A Dream 8.Playing God 9.Highway 10.Sanctuary Studio album No. 8 from the British entrepreneur are Praying Mantis. Over the years, members from both Iron Maiden and Rainbow was on the […]