Mantis Fist began in the year 1999, with Steve aka OKI, Ron aka NARATA, and the twins Keith, and Ken. With a few line-up changes since. Justin joined us around 2004, bring his own unique style of flow that fit right in. Justin aka SVETZ not only emcee's, he has produced some tracks him self on our first album ZEN ARCHERZ. T.J. Fangio and Shawn Wright, both were with us for many years playing guitar and bass, on songs like Zen and many more. Sean Duran was our drummer for a while, he also play on the song ZEN. We had our first show at a penthouse party for the new millinium with a bunch of friends. The show went good so, we then we booked our FIRST real show. At LAUNCHPAD, they let us perform on a wensday night it was called, new-music-night. The place was pack. thanks to us and other new bands that played that night like FEELS LIKE SUNDAY and DV8. We performed our first FallCrawl at LAUNCHPAD 2000 and have been in almost every Spring or Fall Crawl since. (very cool festival for alb.,nm.) Albuquerque has been good to us. Bars like LAUNCHPAD, BURTS TIKI LOUNGE, GOLDENWEST, EL REY, MOONLIGHT LOUNGE, ATOMIC CANTINA, 4TH STREET PUB, also old greats like BREWSTERS, BLUE DRAGON, AND CLUB R&B all have been very helpful and friendly. Out side of Alb. we have performed in cities like Rio Rancho, Los Lunas, Santa Fe, Gallup, El Paso ,and Tucson. Also we have been lucky enough to have performed with greats like SAGE FRANCIS, 2 MEX, PHUNK JUNKIES, GLUEY BROTHERS, SMOKE, and the 2006 and 2007 WORLD-RAP-CHAMPION- ILLMACULATE, and many more. Watch one of our emcee OKI, battle NOCANDO in the FINALS of "MIC FIGHTS 11" on YouTube. Other live performances filmed by our man DRAW are here on myspace and youtube. Thanks to all you who voted for us in the BEST OF BURQUE 2006 issue of the Alibi, we were voted-"BEST HIP HOP BAND in ALBUQUERQUE" by you the readers of the weekly "ALIBI".
We also won-"BEST HIP HOP BAND in NEW MEXICO" in the New Mexico Showcase Battle of the Bands.
Thanks for your suport. tell us what you think ADD us as a friend leave a COMMENT. BOOK us a TOUR if you can,want to,and are able. We are ready. Look for our new album soon. MANTIS FIST FIRST CD ZEN ARCHERZ IS OUT NOW. CD BABY
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