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Old 01-19-2012, 06:35 PM   #101 (permalink)
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Yes the cover is absolutely awful but this little gem from '83 is well worth a listen and is definitely an undiscovered gem. If you can't find it just holler and I will up it for you.
Hahaha, wow, that album cover is amazing!
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Old 01-19-2012, 06:45 PM   #102 (permalink)
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Hahaha, wow, that album cover is amazing!

The boots alone are worth the price of admission. I actually have this on lp, solid record beginning to end. And the artwork is indeed astounding in its potential for hilarity. Power from the universe was another decent effort from them, I'll have to dust it off and give it a listen.
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Old 01-20-2012, 11:23 AM   #103 (permalink)
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The boots alone are worth the price of admission. I actually have this on lp, solid record beginning to end. And the artwork is indeed astounding in its potential for hilarity. Power from the universe was another decent effort from them, I'll have to dust it off and give it a listen.
I was gonna mention those. The dude sorta looks like the most badass Eskimo ever.
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Old 01-20-2012, 01:23 PM   #104 (permalink)
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Yes the cover is absolutely awful but this little gem from '83 is well worth a listen and is definitely an undiscovered gem. If you can't find it just holler and I will up it for you.
I know the name but that is about it. but will definitely check this out soon. Have some more stuff that I'm putting up on here soon as well.
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Old 01-31-2012, 12:42 PM   #105 (permalink)
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One of my favourite bands of the NWOBHM were Praying Mantis who were fronted by the Troy brothers (Tino and Chris) A lot of the bands of the NWOBHM genre were melodic but Praying Mantis took it to another level and at the time sounded more like an American AOR band than a British metal act. Praying Mantis showed that it was possible to marry metal with AOR and produce great melodic singing with muscle metal riffs to complement. Praying Mantis despite never garnering much success, are still going strong today and released their last album only a couple of years ago. This album their debut is probably their best album.

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Hell I love these songs.


Praying Mantis - Lovers To The Grave - YouTube


Praying Mantis Panic In The Streets - YouTube
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Old 02-01-2012, 10:09 AM   #107 (permalink)
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Praying Mantis are one of those bands that I've been meaning to listen to for years and years, but have always slept on for whatever reason. I'll have to remedy that.

Edit: Glorious. They've found a new way to make metal cheesy.
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Old 02-01-2012, 03:29 PM   #108 (permalink)
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If It's a REALLY underrated NWOBHM album you want...

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That band use to have bagpipes as well, seems like Korn copied them on that score.
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Old 02-02-2012, 08:20 AM   #110 (permalink)
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There just never seems to be and end to melody amongst the NWOBHM bands and Fist were no exception to the rule and played a fair amount of ballady songs as well, along with occult influenced lyrics. Hailing from South Shields in the North East the band probably spent too much time listening to both ACDC and Deep Purple with their large amount of cliched riffs. Apart from this the singing and those riffs were top notch and this was another band that success sadly passed by. Like a lot of these bands their debut is one of their best (They only did three albums)

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