Praying Mantis - Time Tells No Lies

One of the best NWOBHM albums. Maybe a little bit softer, but really melodic, enjoyable and amazing.

Yeh, this is a great album.

I actually bought this out of nowhere yesterday... I've seen that on the shelves at HMV.
And I saw the tag mentioning NWOBHM, I was like *hmm don't know this band, let's try it out*
I'm listening to it right now, not disappointing at all, I love it so far, but I'll make it spin
a few more times before I rate it. No matter, I'm really glad I found this.

EDIT: Well so I have listened to it a lot since and I think this is an excellent album. I love it!

New wave of British heavy rock. Not bad, but too cheesy for me.

I've changed my mind, it is a nice album. Guess I wasn't in a mood for that amount of catchiness.

Exceptionally good NWoBHM. This is actually the only PM album I regard as really good. Lots of good songs here, but IMO "Running For Tomorrow" is the only real classic here.

One of the most overlooked and underrated melodic hard rock albums ever. Nearly every song here is worthy of a medal. Children of the Earth is one of the best songs I have ever heard in my life, Lovers To The Grave has insanely cool climax and so on...

Cheated has one interesting real life story behind it. The band was originally supposed to release some unknown little hard rock song called "I Surrender", but Richie Blackmore somehow cheated it for himself, so instead they made this song called Cheated, which even has a mention of colors of a rainbow turning blue. As far as I know, PM's version of the song has never been released even to this day.

Good album slightly soiled by that awful Kinks cover version.

Masterpiece

Written by Hex_Omega on 29.12.2014 at 20:50

New wave of British heavy rock. Not bad, but too cheesy for me.

Same for me. More Hard Rock then NWoBHM. It´s ok and Running For Tomorrow and Thirty Pieces Of Silver are great songs but in total there are a lot of better genre albums out there.

6.5/10

Written by InfernalOverkill on 25.06.2026 at 11:18

Written by Hex_Omega on 29.12.2014 at 20:50

New wave of British heavy rock. Not bad, but too cheesy for me.

Same for me. More Hard Rock then NWoBHM. It´s ok and Running For Tomorrow and Thirty Pieces Of Silver are great songs but in total there are a lot of better genre albums out there.

6.5/10

Good thing Hex changed his mind right after this post hahaha. I disagree here, most tracks on this album are memorable. There's actually not that many albums in that specific style that are better. Not in my opinion anyways.

This record has a very unique flair and is catchy as fuck. Songs get stuck in your head for days. My favourite by PM by far.

Written by Guib on 25.06.2026 at 14:46

Written by InfernalOverkill on 25.06.2026 at 11:18

Written by Hex_Omega on 29.12.2014 at 20:50

New wave of British heavy rock. Not bad, but too cheesy for me.

Same for me. More Hard Rock then NWoBHM. It´s ok and Running For Tomorrow and Thirty Pieces Of Silver are great songs but in total there are a lot of better genre albums out there.

6.5/10

Good thing Hex changed his mind right after this post hahaha. I disagree here, most tracks on this album are memorable. There's actually not that many albums in that specific style that are better. Not in my opinion anyways.

This record has a very unique flair and is catchy as fuck. Songs get stuck in your head for days. My favourite by PM by far.

It changed Hex but not me. :-)

I am big fan of the NWoBHM genre and know nearly everything. Even the totally unknown records. But that´s the thing with PM. For me is´t not fitting the genre like I define it for me. It´s Hard Rock. No problem for me as I like that genre too. Not as much as Metal though. But there are plenty of bands in the same genre that I would prefer over them.