Praying Mantis
# Praying Mantis

Praying Mantis é uma banda de rock inglesa formada em 1973 pelos irmãos Tino e Chris Troy. Apesar de fazer parte do New Wave of British Heavy Metal, eles tem uma orientação musical mais melódica que os seus contemporâneos.

## Discografia
### Álbuns de estúdio

* Time Tells No Lies (Arista 1981) - UK nº 60
* Throwing Shapes (son o nome 'Stratus') (Steel Trax 1984)
* Predator in Disguise (Pony Canyon 1991)
* A Cry for the New World (Pony Canyon 1993)
* To the Power of Ten (Pony Canyon 1995)
* Forever in Time (Pony Canyon 1998)
* Nowhere to Hide (Pony Canyon 2000)
* The Journey Goes On (Pony Canyon 2003)
* Sanctuary (Frontiers 2009)
* Legacy (Frontiers 2015)
* Gravity (2018)

### Singles

* "Praying Mantis" / "High Roller" 7" (GEM, 1980)
* The Soundhouse Tapes Part 2 ("Captured City" / "The Ripper" / "Johnny Cool") 12" (Ripper Records, 1981)
* "Cheated" / "Thirty Pieces of Silver" / "Flirting With Suicide" / "Panic in the Streets" 2x7" (Arista, 1981)
* "All Day and All of the Night" / "Beads of Ebony" 7" (Arista, 1981)
* "Turn the Tables" / "Tell Me the Nightmare's Wrong" / "A Question of Time" 7" EP (Jet, 1982)
* "Only the Children Cry" / "Who's Life is it Anyway?" / "A Moment in Life" / "Turn the Tables" CD EP (Canyon International, 1993)
* Metalmorphosis CD EP (self-released, 2011)

### Coletâneas

* The Best of Praying Mantis (Pony Canyon 2004)