STRYPER to release first album since 1990! Hallelujah!

[Fenris]

Stryper Reborn
Tuesday, May 03, 2005

http://www.christianrock.net/news.asp?userid=

The multi-platinum and Billboard charting rock band Stryper is back and set to release Reborn via Big3 Records on August 16, 2005. Reborn marks the band's first complete studio release of original material in over a decade, since 1990's Against The Law, and features 10 original tracks marked by Stryper's trademark blend of melodic vocals, heavy guitar licks and pounding drums, as well a new version of the previously released track "In God We Trust." After writing and recording some songs in April 2004, Michael Sweet approached the band about reuniting and recording the material as a Stryper record. The album was re-recorded in Massachussetts at Blue Jay Studio, Mixed Emotions, and Sweet's home studio. The title track "Reborn" is provocatively dark with catchy lyrics and raw guitar riffs, and will impact radio on June 7th.

Said Stryper frontman Michael Sweet of the new record, "Our fans have said they would like to hear Stryper with more edge, but I didn't want to do something so heavy that it would limit us. We were able to deliver the edge yet still keep the melody and catchy guitar riffs." As for the title Reborn, Sweet remarks, "I wrote the song "Reborn" before we decided to reunite as a band, and once we came together it was natural to make this notion the essence of the album as we feel we are being reborn. We truly feel like a new band."

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:evilgrin:

[tridim]

1. Please gawd, no!

Maybe they should go on American Idol? :P

[flamingyouth]

2. They're too old.

By the grace of God.

[johnnie]

3. Whoo Hoooo

:woohoo:

I guess after the rehabs, divorces, lawsuits and carousing, they have time for another album.

[Dervill Crow]

4. Eeeew.

Christian music is one of the reasons my family is glad I was born again AGAIN. Or would that be UNborn? Whatever.

[Orsino]

5. ...upholding a long tradition of not rocking. n/t

[Bunny]

6. You mean these guys?

:yourock:

[last_texas_dem]

7. "To Hell with the Devil" I say

and nothing more.

[mr blur]

8. "will impact radio"

"Impact"? Don't they just play stuff on the radio anymore?

[jpgray]

9. Big3 records?

Tell me that isn't a not-so-subtle trinity reference.

:puke:

[jandrok]

10. Be fun to see them tour with Slayer.

They could call it the "Heaven and Hell" tour. It would rake in millions.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. I loved them when I was in H.S. Have their autographs and everything

Have to say, though, I prefer Sweet's voice when it is sweet. I hope he is not doing the growling thing on this one.

Then again, I am pretty impatient with blatant Bible-thumping lyrics now. Prefer the subtletly of Evanescence and King's X these days.