Category: PRAYING MANTIS

British legends PRAYING MANTIS will release their 12th studio album “Katharsis” on Frontiers Music, which sees the long-running act steadily progressing from the sonic signatures of their last album. “Katharsis” features the same line-up that has been featured on the previous two recordings, with vocalist Jaycee Cuijpers and drummer Hans in’t Zandt cementing themselves as part of the band’s ongoing legacy. The two have truly provided a new dimension to the writing process and musical performances delivered by the band.
Together with founding members Tino and Chris Troy and guitarist Andy Burgess, who has been with the band since 2008, they have been crucial not only in the writing of the new songs, but in providing a new vision in terms of sound engineering and production.
To hear the band now, fans will experience both the spirit and energy of the early ’80s together with a technical style that brings the band into the modern era…

Only a few years from their 50th anniversary since forming in London by brothers Chris and Tino Troy, melodic hard rockers PRAYING MANTIS prove they are still a force to be reckoned with judging by this performance for the “Keep It Alive” album, due for release on Dec. 6th via Frontiers Music. Recorded at the Frontiers Rock Festival V last...

British rockers PRAYING MANTIS will release their 11th studio album, “Gravity“, on May 11 via Frontiers Music, and tomorrow in Japan.After the positive response given to the band’s last studio release, the new record sees Praying Mantis return with another even more inspired, take-no-prisoners set. Opener ‘Keep It Alive’ shows that the band certainly do with this riff heavy tune....

* Released today by Frontiers Music, “Legacy” is the new album by British legends PRAYING MANTIS, the first to feature drummer Hans In T’ Zandt (Bangalore Choir, Vengeance) and new vocalist John ‘Jaycee’ Cujipers. It also marks the return of cover artist Rodney Matthews, whose art graced the earliest Praying Mantis classics. It has been way too long since NWOBHM-turned-Melodic...

thanx to Carl * Formed by brothers Tino and Chris Troy, PRAYING MANTIS developed a reputation for delivering thinking man’s metal. Indeed, they had the musical chops to rival and, at times, outshine the competition by utilising twin lead guitar, ambitious arrangements and multilayered harmonies; their songs were melodic yet intricately arranged and packed a powerful punch. “Time Tells No...