Search - Praying Mantis :: Demorabilia

C'Mon Heepsters, buy it!

David K. Barrett | Seattle, WA | 06/17/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Friends, This album features demos by Praying Mantis, Stratus and Eclipse (all of course being essentially the same great NWBOHM band). It is firmly in the Iron Maiden-esque NWOBHM camp and features none other than Bernie Shaw of Uriah Heep on vocals. If you crave Brit Rock than look no further. I love this CD, and the packaging is incredible. Despite being demos, all the tunes are pretty solid sounding. Don't worry, no junk here. Keep in mind that a lot of the great NWOBHM stuff sounded like demos because the production value was so bad.Anyway, the music is superb, many songs in fact being dusted off and rerecorded with later versions of Praying Mantis. Mantis fans will recognize a lot of the older stuff. Lastly, as I said earlier, this is NWOBHM, this is not the melodic prancing stuff of the 1990s."