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"I don’t think there’s a single metalhead out there that hasn’t heard of Iron Maiden or Def Leppard and doesn’t recognize their importance in the development of heavy metal music, regardless of whether they’re fans or not. Yet many other bands from the same period remain largely unknown to the younger generation of metalheads, one of them being Praying Mantis."

Read the rest:

http://metalrecusants.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/release-review-praying-mantis-metalmorphosis/

Praying Mantis
Metalmorphosis
Children of the Earth
Praying Mantis
Lovers to the Grave
Panic in the Streets
Captured City
Time Tells No Lies
heavy metal
new wave of british heavy metal
nwobhm
hard rock

1.Iron Maiden-Killers
2.Black Sabbath-Mob Rules
3.Saxon-Denim And Leather
4.Killer-Wall Of Sound
5.Holocaust-The Nightcomers
6.Demon-Night Of The Demon
7.Venom-Welcome To Hell
8.Accept-Breaker
9.Dark Star-Dark Star
10.Arkangel-Arkangel
11.Anvil-Hard 'n' Heavy
12.Saracen-Heroes, Saints & Fools
13.Ozzy Osbourne-Diary Of A Madman
14.Raven-Rock Until You Drop
15.Clientelle-Destination Unknown
16.5x-Human Target
17.Barón Rojo-Larga Vida Al Rock And Roll
18.Judas Priest-Point Of Entry
19.Praying Mantis-Time Tells No Lies
20.AC/DC-For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)


Near misses:

Resistencia-Hecho en Venezuela
Riot-Fire Down Under
Rainbow-Difficult To Cure
Samson-Shock Tactics
GoRdi-Pakleni Trio
Mistreater-Hell's Fire
Rage-Out Of Control
Rose Tattoo-Assault & Battery
Tygers of Pan Tang-Spellbound
…

Accept (2)
Adrenaline Mob
Aerosmith
Alestorm
Alice Cooper (3)
Alien
Alter Bridge (2)
Amon Amarth (6)
Amorphis
Anathema (2)
Angel Witch
Anthrax (2)
April Divine (2)
As I Lay Dying
Asta Kask
Astral Doors (2)
At the Gates (2)
Audrey Horne
Avantasia (2)
Avenged Sevenfold (2)
Axel Rudi Pell
Axxis
Backyard Babies
Bad Company
Bad Religion
Band of Horses
Behemoth (2)
Biffy Clyro
Bigelf
Billy Idol
Black Label Society (2)
Black Sabbath
Black Stone Cherry
Black Tooth
Blackfield
Blackfoot
Blaze Bayley
Blind Guardian
Blindside
Bon Jovi
Brainstorm
Bruce Springsteen (2)
Buckcherry (2)
Bullet (5)
Bullet for My Valentine
Candlemass
Cathedral
Cinderella
Circle II Circle
Cloudscape
Clutch
Coheed and Cambria
Coldplay (2)
Combichrist
Corroded
Covered Call
CRASHDÏET (4)
Crooked X
Crucified Barbara (3)
Crystal Eyes
Cult of Luna
Cynic
D-A-D (2)
Danger Danger
Danko Jones (2)
Danzig
Dark Tranquillity (5)
…

Following up on the earlier journal, Getting Artist Images to Look Their Best, here is a short guide to explain how images (be they square, tall, or wide) that you upload to artist galleries are cropped for eventual use in the library.

I'll use these images (taken from Simone Kopmajer's gallery) as a visual guide to show how your original artist pics will end up looking as library images. It works on the idea that cropping images square or tall - if your original shots allow this - really is the safer option, as they minimize further cropping when your images are processed. Shown below are three sample images, in square, tall, and wide formats, and beside them the actual 126s images used for the library. The translucent red masking shows where image content will be lost (or hidden from view, rather), and the window is what you'll end up with in the library:

http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l450/fmera_photos/Picture1-9.png http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126s/34206107.png
…

Wed 5 Aug – Praying Mantis, Fury UK, Core of Nation

Last night was a worthwhile gig at the relatively small Purple Turtle in Camden, London.

Openers Core of Nation from Sweden impressed me very much very quickly. Stationed near the equalising desk the sound was almost as perfect as one could possibly demand from a studio mixing. Though it's highly cliche to say so the band played like a well-oiled machine and I found it hard to believe they weren't headlining their own show of at least this size. I suppose I would describe the genre loosely as stoner metal with a classic rock leaning, particularly in the vocals field, or alternately classic metal with a stoner metal leaning in the bass sound and prominence and riff characteristics. I came away with their Machine World album, which I haven't listened all the way through yet, but will likely be willing to write something about or answer questions on once I have.

Second act Fury UK, I had seen before but I believe they've had a line-up change since then. …