NEWSDESK, 30th March 2010
> PRETTY MAIDS' PANDEMONIUM
Danish Dynamite Rockers Pretty Maids will release their anticipated new album Pandemonium on May 14th in Europe and June 8th in the USA. Pandemonium is the band’s 12th studio album and their first full length release over the last four years. A 90 secs. preview of the single 'Little Drops of Heaven' is now available for streaming on http://www.prettymaids.dk/ and on the band’s and Frontiers' MySpace sites - http://www.myspace.com/pmaids / http://www.myspace.com/frontiersrecords.
Produced by Jacob Hansen (who has also worked with Volbeat, Rob Rock and Beyond Twilight between others), Pandemonium with its melodic approach is a definite return to the Future World / Red Hot and Heavy era of the eighties, but with an updated sound and freshness that consolidates that Pretty Maids are as strong as ever.
“I think this new record shows the band in its finest moment”, says singer Ronnie Atkins “that’s definitely our best effort in many years and the spirit in the band is higher than ever”.
This album also introduces keyboard player Morten Sandager as a permanent member of the band and his impact is evident on the tracks of the CD, particularly on the hauntingly melodic new single 'Little Drops of Heaven' which will be released – only as a digital download, as an exclusive teaser leading to the album’s release, on April 13th worldwide.
Written in the fall of 2009 and recorded in the winter of 2010, Pandemonium will be supported by several festival appearances during the summer of 2010 and then followed by a full scale European tour in Oct/Nov 2010.
Pandemonium track listing includes: Pandemonium, I.N.V.U., Little Drops of Heaven, One World One Truth, Final Day of Innocence, Cielo Drive, It Comes at Night, Old Enough to Know, Beautiful Madness, Breathless, It Comes at Night (remix)
Pretty Maids is Ronnie Atkins on vocals, Ken Hammer on guitars, Kenn Jackson on bass, Allan Tschicaja on drums, and Morten Sandager on keyboards.
> PRAYING MANTIS TO SWEDEN ROCK
Their classic debut Time Tells No Lies (1981) established Praying Mantis as one of the prime melodic bands within the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Sadly the band split up shortly afterwards due to various problems, including a conflict with Rainbow about who would get to release the single 'I Surrender'.
Praying Mantis' Japanese fan-base in particular remained devoted, and the band reunited in 1990. The comeback-album Predator in Disguise was followed by more, equally excellent releases, most recently the lauded Sanctuary in 2009.
The band's line-up has changed numerous times (former members include Iron Maiden-refugees Paul Di'Anno, Dennis Stratton and Clive Burr), but its nucleus has always been the Troy brothers, Chris and Tino on bass and guitar respectively. At Praying Mantis' SRF-debut the duo will be accompanied by guitarist Andy Burgess, drummer Benjy Reid and singer Mike Freeland.
http://www.praying-mantis.com/
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