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Praying Mantis Heavy Metal 1981 UK
Praying Mantis - Time Tells No Lies flac album
  • Performer Praying Mantis
  • Title Time Tells No Lies
  • Date of release 1981
  • Country UK
  • Style Heavy Metal
  • Other formats APE WMA MP3 ASF TTA MP2 MPC
  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1933 mb
  • Size FLAC 1554 mb
  • Rating: 4.4
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Praying Mantis' 1981 debut Time Tells No Lies is a minor New Wave of British Heavy Metal classic. The album showcases the band's effective use of harmony vocals and guitars, as well as their knack for catchy hooks and choruses. Nowhere is this more successful than on lead-off single "Cheated," featuring a fantastic dual guitar harmony straight out of the Thin Lizzy handbook. Running for Tomorrow" packs a Joe Lynn Turner-era Rainbow flavor while "Panic in the Streets" shows the band at their roughest NWOBHM moment.

Time Tells No Lies (1981) by Praying Mantis. Labels: Arista Records. Genres: Hard Rock, NWOBHM Members: Tino Troy, Steve Carroll, Chris Troy, Dave Potts.

Praying Mantis are an English rock band Contents. The attention won them a recording contract with Arista Records and they released their best-known work Time Tells No Lies in 1981. Management and line-up instability undermined their success and Arista dropped them. The following year they signed for Jet Records, but two subsequent singles flopped and the band folded. They had recorded a version of the Russ Ballard penned track "I Surrender", but ran into conflict with Rainbow, who went on to release their version, and had a Top 10 worldwide hit. Instead, Praying Mantis recorded another single, "Cheated"

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Cheated
Written-By – S. Carroll*, T. Troy*
 3:52
A2 All Day And All Of The Night
Written-By – Ray Davies
 3:58
A3 Running For Tomorrow
Written-By – C. Troy*, D. Potts*, S. Carroll*, T. Troy*
 3:40
A4 Rich City Kids
Written-By – C. Troy*, T. Troy*
 3:47
A5 Lovers To The Grave
Written-By – C. Troy*, T. Troy*
 4:52
B1 Panic In The Streets
Written-By – S. Vermeulen*, S. Carroll*, T. Troy*
 3:42
B2 Beads Of Ebony
Written-By – T. Troy*
 5:34
B3 Flirting With Suicide
Written-By – C. Troy*, D. Potts*, S. Carroll*, T. Troy*
 5:04
B4 Children Of The Earth
Written-By – C. Troy*, T. Troy*
 5:43

Credits

  • Artwork – Rodney Matthews
  • Bass, Vocals – Chris Troy
  • Drums – Dave Potts
  • Guitar, Vocals – Steve Carroll, Tino Troy
  • Producer – Tim Friese-Greene

Notes

Released with a printed inner image/lyrics-sleeve

Different to these other German pressing Praying Mantis - Time Tells No Lies and Praying Mantis - Time Tells No Lies
on Backcover and Matrix

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): 203449 A-1/81S III Made in Germany
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped (The "II" after "III" is etched)): 203449 B-1/81S III II Made in Germany

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
SPART 1153 Praying Mantis Time Tells No Lies ‎(LP, Album) Arista SPART 1153 UK 1981
25RS 124 Praying Mantis Time Tells No Lies ‎(LP, Album) Arista 25RS 124 Japan 1981
SPART 1153 Praying Mantis Time Tells No Lies ‎(LP, Album, TP) Arista SPART 1153 UK 1981
6483 298 Praying Mantis Time Tells No Lies ‎(LP, Album, TP, W/Lbl) Arista 6483 298 Greece 1981
20RS-63 Praying Mantis Time Tells No Lies ‎(LP, Album, RE) Arista 20RS-63 Japan Unknown


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