New material?

[Alteredmindeath]

why hire studio musicians now when half of kiss is studio musicians?

studio musicians besides kiss.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

Is Tony O'Hora still in Praying Mantis? I love his 2005 solo album (music by Magnus Karlsson) but it seems like he's fallen off the face of the Earth since. Haven't heard his PM albums yet (or any earlier stuff actually) but I'm working on it.

'Forever in Time' and 'Nowhere to Hide' are big must haves. Breaking away was a bad move; the Troy/Stratton songwriting brought out the best in him and produced two of the best Mantis albums.

 

[mdmatt4ever]

studio musicians besides kiss.

well peter and ace were always the guys in the band who were replaced and neither of them are in the band now so there is no reason to do that now

 

[Wyvern]

'Forever in Time' and 'Nowhere to Hide' are big must haves. Breaking away was a bad move; the Troy/Stratton songwriting brought out the best in him and produced two of the best Mantis albums.

FIT does have good songs too, but for me NTH is their best modern album. Stratton left because some issues that can be read about in their website, IMO it was a bad decision from him but since the original band was the Troy brothers I{m confident they can still put good songwriting.

Is Tony O'Hora still in Praying Mantis? I love his 2005 solo album (music by Magnus Karlsson) but it seems like he's fallen off the face of the Earth since. Haven't heard his PM albums yet (or any earlier stuff actually) but I'm working on it.

Tony left after NTH, they pick two singers for the next album being one of them Doogie White. Now they have a revamped line-up.
Basically the debut album "Time Tell No Lies" worth because is NWOBHM era stuff, sadly the band get idle for many years until they did a concert with Paul DiAnno and Dennis Stratton to celebrate the ten years of NWOBHM. Stratton remained until a coule of years ago but DiAnno declined (bad move from him IMO). Then they begin to put out albums but they're OOP, rarities very difficult to find and expensive. I was lucky with FIT on eBay, the newer albums are easier to find since they come out on Frontier Records.

Time Tells No Lies
1981

Live At Last
1990

Predator In Disguise
1991

A Cry For The New World
1993

(EP) Only The Children Cry
1993

To The Power Of Ten
1995

Captured Alive In Tokyo City (live)
1996

Forever In Time
1998

Demorabilia (old demos)
1999

Nowhere To Hide
2000

The Journey Goes On
2003

The Best Of Praying Mantis
2004

 

[tsorl]

Thanks guys, I added Forever In Time to my Amazon.co.uk haul (gotta take advantage of that weak £££ ).

 

[Wyvern]

Thanks guys, I added Forever In Time to my Amazon.co.uk haul (gotta take advantage of that weak £££ ).

Wait until you listen to 'The Day The Sun Turned Cold'