Artist: V/A
Release: Metal For Muthas, Compilation 1980
Covers: Front | Back | Lyrics | Vinyl A | Vinyl B
Label: EMI / Laser Records #EMC 3318
Genre: NWOBHM
Country: UK
Bitrate: 320kbps
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Thanks to steeler for adding lyrics-scans from the japanese pressing!.

The compilation was a sampling of various better-known artists of the NWOBHM, primarily
known for having some of the earliest recorded material by heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN. The album reached #12 on the British LP charts and became the basis of a tour by the artists who contributed songs to the compilation. IRON MAIDEN, who headlined the tour, became largely intertwined with the history of Sanctuary Records (whose namesake was the similarly named Iron Maiden track on the compilation), now a major metal label.

Engineered by Ron Hill & Dave Flower at EMI Studios, Manchester Square (except *)
Executive production and compilation by Ashley Goodall. Design & art Direction by Rob Burt.
Illustration by Peter Campbell. Review + More Info at The Corroseum.

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SIDE A
1. Iron Maiden - Sanctuary
2. Sledgehammer - Sledgehammer
3. EF Band - Fighting for Rock and Roll
4. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Blues in A
5. Praying Mantis - Captured City

SIDE B
6. Ethel the Frog - Fight Back
7. Angel Witch - Baphomet
8. Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
9. Samson - Tomorrow or Yesterday *
10. Nutz - Bootliggers *

Artist: Praying Mantis
Release: Cheated, Single 1980
Genre: NWOBHM
Country: UK
Bitrate: 320kbps
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1. Cheated
2. Thirty Pieces Of Silver
3. Flirting With Suicide
4. Panic In The Streets
More awesome stuff from Oeb Madskull!
This double 7" features more Rodney Matthews artwork, although this time only on the front cover. Maruee track is pop rocker Cheated, from the one and only NWOBHM album from the band, but here in different version. It's still quite a limp sound, although things are starting to gel and an identity is being forged. B-side Thirty Pieces of Silver is non-LP, and is a considerably brisk and lively piece of work for the band, slamming with a metal enough verse and then injecting the harmonies come chorus time. Both live tracks orginally hail from the lone LP, Flirting With Suicide being an example of the good, solid White Spirit-like songcraft that can emerge from this band, and Panic In The Streets being a fast, tough rocker that still manages the band's star vocal quality. Gatefold features live shots, back cover features a scientific explanation of te curious sexual dance found within the praying mantis species. - Martin Popoff

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Artist: V/A
Release: Hammer, Compilation 1981
Genre: NWOBHM
Country: UK
Bitrate: 320kbps
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1.	Motörhead - Ace of Spades
2.	The Michael Schenker Group - Armed and Ready
3.	Girlschool - Hit and Run
4.	UFO - Chains, Chains
5.	Point Blank - Nicole
6.	Dedringer - Direct Line
7.	Angel Witch - Angel Witch
8.	Krokus - Smelly Nelly
9.	Tygers of Pan Tang - The Story so far
10.	Tokyo - Tokyo
11.	Gillan - Future Shock
12.	Praying Mantis - Children of the Earth

Artist: V/A
Release: Metal Explosion, Compilation 1980
Genres: NWOBHM
Country: UK
Bitrate: 192kbps
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1. Samson: Take It Like A Man
2. Praying Mantis: Johnny Cool
3. Trespass: Visionary
4. Taurus: Paper Chaser
5. More: Soldier
6. Money: Leo The Jester
7. Gillan: If You Believe Me
8. Angel Witch: Extermination Day

Artist: Praying Mantis
Release: The Singles (1979 - 1982)
Genre: NWOBHM
Country: UK
Download: Mediafire

Market Value:
The Soundhouse Tapes Part 2, 1979: $120
Praying Mantis, 1980: $20
Cheated, 1980: $15
All Day And All Of The Night, 1980: $10
Turn The Tables, 1982: $55