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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]