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Stryper

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Christian Rock
Glam Metal
Heavy Metal
Hard 'n' Heavy

http://www.stryper.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/stryper
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27 май 2025 :	MICHAEL SWEET Is 'So Excited' About STRYPER's Upcoming Christmas Album: 'It's Gonna Be Awesome'
18 май 2025 :
15 май 2025 :	STRYPER's Christmas Album Should Be Completed By Early July
30 апр 2025 :	STRYPER Is Preparing To Record Christmas Album
17 янв 2025 :	STRYPER's ROBERT SWEET: 'The Holy Spirit Gave Us The Courage To Go And Do This'
12 янв 2025 :	STRYPER Recap 2024, Share Plans For The New Year Including "The Release Of Some New Exclusive Music"
11 янв 2025 :	STRYPER's MICHAEL SWEET Explains When Use Of Backing Tracks Becomes 'Too Much'
23 дек 2024 :	MICHAEL SWEET On Perception That He Runs STRYPER Like A Dictatorship: 'It's Just Not True'
17 дек 2024 :	How Close Did C.C. DEVILLE Come To Joining STRYPER? MICHAEL SWEET Responds
30 окт 2024 :	MICHAEL SWEET Would Like OZZY OSBOURNE To Give Induction Speech For STRYPER At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
19 окт 2024 :	STRYPER Debut Music Video For New Track "Betrayed By Love"
26 сен 2024 :	STRYPER Is Working On A 'Really Different And Special' Official Band Documentary
15 сен 2024 :	STRYPER Share Visualizer For New Single "Rhyme Of Time"; When We Were Kings Album Out Now
3 сен 2024 :	OZ FOX Believes He Will Be Well Enough To Join STRYPER On 40th-Anniversary Tour: 'The Prayers Are Working'
17 авг 2024 :	STRYPER's MICHAEL SWEET: 'We've Been Mocked From The Very Beginning'
16 авг 2024 :	STRYPER Shares Music Video For 'When We Were Kings' Title Track
7 авг 2024 :	STRYPER's MICHAEL SWEET: 'We've Definitely Gotten Heavier As We've Gotten Older'
19 июл 2024 :	STRYPER Shares 'Loves Symphony' And 'Grateful' Singles From Upcoming 'When We Were Kings' Album
14 июл 2024 :	STRYPER Announces New Album, 'When We Were Kings'
9 июл 2024 :	STRYPER's MICHAEL SWEET Says There Is 'A Huge Misconception That All Rock Stars Are Rich And Wealthy': 'We're Not Loaded'
4 июл 2024 :	STRYPER's MICHAEL SWEET: 'As Long As You're Performing Live And Using' Backing 'Tracks Sparingly, It's Totally Fine'
27 июн 2024 :	STRYPER Shares New Single 'End Of Days', Announces 40th-Anniversary Tour Dates
12 июн 2024 :	See STRYPER Cover BON JOVI's 'Livin' On A Prayer' In Buffalo During 'To Hell With The Amps: The Unplugged Tour'
21 май 2024 :	MICHAEL SWEET Says Upcoming STRYPER Album Will Have 'Some Different Twists And Turns To It'
20 май 2024 :	STRYPER's OZ FOX On His Latest Brain Surgery: 'I Don't Expect' Any Problems
14 апр 2024 :	STRYPER To Re-Release Acousticyzed Album / DVD "In New And Exciting Ways"

27 май 2025

MICHAEL SWEET Is 'So Excited' About STRYPER's Upcoming Christmas Album: 'It's Gonna Be Awesome'

Christian rockers STRYPER enter the studio in late April to begin recording their first-ever full-length Christmas album. The 10-song effort will include five original Christmas tracks and five traditional Christmas cuts, including remakes of "Reason For The Season" and "Winter Wonderland", both of which originally appeared on a 1985 single and were also made available on the 1986 re-release of STRYPER's debut EP, "The Yellow And Black Attack".

In a new interview with Jorge Pozo of LotsOfMuzik, STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet stated about the upcoming LP (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We just finished the music, all the tracking. The music is complete and the background vocals. Now I have to sing it. My plan was to start singing today. That didn't work out, so most likely tomorrow. And I'll sing a song a day and it'll be done within the next few weeks. And then I go to Sweden and we perform [at the Sweden Rock Festival in early June]. And then when I get home, we will mix it and finish mixing. But I can tell you this: it is awesome. Oh my gosh. We're so excited about this one."

Asked which songs will be included on the record, Michael said: "We've got five traditional Christmas songs on it. We did a remake of 'Winter Wonderland' and then we did a version of 'Silent Night', a version of 'The Little Drummer Boy', 'Go Tell It On The Mountain', which is not one that's been covered a lot, which is cool, and it is considered a Christmas hymn. And then also 'Joy To The World'. So we've got those five songs, and then we did a remake of 'Reason For The Season', made it sound more today. It's still the same arrangement, but obviously with new tones. It sounds bigger and thicker and heavier. And then we did four new original Christmas songs: 'Greatest Gift Of All', 'On This Holy Night', 'Still The Light' and — what's the other one? I'm trying to think. It's slipping my mind right now. It'll come to me. Anyway, we're really, really, really pleased with how this one turned out, man. It's really cool. It's gonna be a great album."

Regarding which of the songs on the Christmas album he feels "most connected to", Sweet said: "Probably the new stuff. I love the traditional stuff and it was awesome and fun doing that, but I always feel a little more connected with new material 'cause it's a little more exciting and hasn't been done before. So it's new territory."

Asked what he meant when he wrote in a social media post that the STRYPER Christmas album has "a unique signature", Michael said: "Well, I mean it definitely has a very unique signature. We didn't really plan it this way, but it has this really great merge of classic — it's got that undeniable classic sound to it, STRYPER classic sound, but yet at the same time it's got that undeniable modern-era STRYPER sound too, because we're tuned down to D now. So the guitars are a little thicker and things sound a little bigger and heavier. So it's got the perfect merge in combination of classic and modern. Something else we did — for example, we did every single solo in harmony. So every solo, every note is in harmony, which is a first. We've never done that on any album. But the minute you hear those harmony guitar solos, that's a very STRYPER signature sound. So you get lots of that on this album. It's really cool, man. It's exciting, and I can't wait for people to hear it. We have a new song called 'On This Holy Night'. It's very heavy musically — dark. It sounds almost like [BLACK] SABBATH. And it's got this cool vibe to it and such a great message about how we worldwide really more often make Christmas about everything but Jesus. So that's the message, and it's a cool message. And then we've got an uptempo song called 'The Greatest Gift Of All'. It's almost kind of a little GREEN DAY-slash-BLINK-182 sounding, and it's just this power-pop metal, slightly punk vibe to it. It's really cool. So it's got some new flavors to it that I think people are gonna like and appreciate."

On the topic of whether there were any challenges balancing the STRYPER sound with the traditional sound of the songs on the Christmas record, Michael said: "No. Not at all. It just all came together so naturally. As you know, we did remakes, re-recordings of 'Winter Wonderland' and 'Reason For The Season'. So we tried to stay true to the original form. The only difference is they'll both be tuned down a half a step, and 'Winter Wonderland', we didn't do the joking around in the beginning. Because we felt like that was something that you shouldn't touch. That was with Tim [Gaines, original STRYPER bassist] and that was a spontaneous, fun thing. And we didn't wanna go down that road and try to mimic that; that could have been real corny. But other than that, it's the same arrangements. And the other traditional songs sound killer. 'The Little Drummer Boy' is powerful. It's a really good album, and we're excited. We've been talking about a Christmas album since 1985, believe it or not."

As for when fans can expect the STRYPER Christmas album to come out, Michael said: "Definitely this year. I would say the first song would probably come out — could be September, that the first song comes out for this album. And then we'll release another song after that. And then the album itself may come out in October, certainly by November… Frontiers [Music Srl] will be releasing it worldwide. It will be available for all. And it's gonna be awesome, man. It's such a cool thing."

He continued: "Like I said, [it's] very exciting for us, 'cause we've been seriously talking about this for a long time. The reason why it hasn't happened is because of our schedules. It's just there hasn't been a good time to do it. So this time I brought it up to the label in a Zoom meeting. They agreed it would be a good idea, and we just made it happen. We're, like, 'Let's go. Let's go do it right now.' And we got in the studio quickly, and we're gonna release it this year. And from now on, it's not talk — it's actually going to be reality."

Asked which of the songs will be released as the first single from the Christmas album, Michael said: "We'll probably release one of the original songs first. I could see us releasing maybe 'The Greatest Gift Of All'. That's probably gonna start the album — a great, up-tempo high-energy song. Or 'On This Holy Night'. That's a powerful song too. Or 'Heaven Came On Christmas Day'. That's another one that's really cool. I don't know, man. That's gonna be tough."

STRYPER's latest studio album, "When We Were Kings", came out in September 2024.

The band recently completed the U.S. leg of its 40th-anniversary tour, which was described as "a celebration of both classic hits and new-era fan favorites, including outfit changes and an exciting new show production."

In December 2023, Michael underwent partial thyroidectomy, the surgery to remove part of his thyroid gland. It is the most common surgery for thyroid cancer.

Formed 41 years ago, STRYPER's name comes from Isaiah 53:5, which states: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

STRYPER's other albums include "To Hell With The Devil", "Second Coming", "No More Hell To Pay", "Fallen", "God Damn Evil", "Even The Devil Believes" and "The Final Battle".

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