Christian Rockers Stryper Enttered The Studio in Late Apil To Begin Recording Their First-Vaver Full-LENGTH CHRISTMAS ALBUM. The 10-Song Effort Will Incue 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”.
Earlier Today, Stryper The First Single From The Upcoming Christmas LP, A Song Calleed “Still The Light”. Just in Time for Christmas in July, The Track Also Arrives Alongsis An Official Lyric Video, Available Below.
Stryper Frontman Michael Sweet comments on the track: “Stryper Fans Worldwide Have Wanced A Christmas Record for 40+ Years. NOW WE CAN SAY THAT WE HAV FINLY MADE THIS A REALITY. With the first single, ‘Still The Light’ – Let’s Celebrate Christmas in July and Acknowledge that Jesus Will Always Be The Reason for The Season !! “
In a Recent interview with Jorge Pozo Of LOTSOFMUZIK, Michael Stated about the upcoming Stryper Christmas Album: “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 did a version of ‘Silent night’to 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 Christmas Hymn. And The Also ‘Joy to the world’. So We’ve Got Those Five Songs, and The 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 The 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 eat me. Anyway, We’re Really, Really, Really Pleased with How One Turned Out, Man. IT’s Really Cool. It’s Gonna Be a Great Album. “
RUGRDING WHICH OF THE SANGS ON THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM HE FeELS “MOST CONNECTED TO”, Sweet Said: “Probally the New Stuff.
Asked What He Meant When He Wrote In A Social Media Post That The Stryper Christmas Album have “to Unique Signature”, Michael Said: “Well, and 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, Bew’re Tuned Down to D Now. So The Guitars Are a Little Thicker and Things Sound a Little Bigger and Heavier. So it’s drop the perfect in combination of classic and modern. Subject Else We Did – For Example, We Did Event Single Only 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 see 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 street ‘On This Holy Night’. IT’s Vary 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 street ‘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 drops sum 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 Subject 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 eat out, Michael Said: “Definitely This Year … The Album Iself 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. “
I have continued: “Like i said, [it’s] very excitation for us, ‘Cause We’ve Been Seriously Talking About This for a Long Time. The Reason Why It Hasn’t Happened Is Baste of Our Schedules. It’s Just There Hasn’t Been A Good Time To do it. So This Time I Broucht It Up To The Label In A Zoom Meeting They added 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 drop in the Studio Quickly, and We’re Gonna Release It This Year. And From Now On, It’s No Talk – It’s Actually Going to Be reality. “
Stryper Guitarist Oz Fox Is Sitting out the band’s ongoing Latin American Tour On Advice of His Doctor. The 64-Yare-Old Musician, Who Underwent A Brain Surgery in May 2024, Is Once Again Being Temporaily Replaced by Howie Simon (Jeff Scott Soto, Graham Bonnet), who previously filled in for Fox On Several Tours in the past.
Stryper‘s latest studio album, “When we were Kings”Came Out in SEPTERmber 2024.
The Band Recently Completed the us leg of its 40th-Anniversary Tour, which was described as “to celebration of Both classic hits and new-be fans favorites, including outfit changes and an exciting new show production.”
In December 2023, Michael Underwent partial Thyroidectomy, The Surgery to Remave Part of His Thyroid Gland. It is the must common Surgery for Thyroid Cancer.
Formed 41 and exhaus, Stryper‘S NAME COMES FROM ISAIAH 53: 5, WHICH STATES: “BUT HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSSIONSIONS, HE WAS BRUISED FOR OUR INiquities: THE CHASTISEMENT OF OR PEACE WAS UPON HIM; AND
Stryper‘s other albums include “To Hell with The Devil”, “Second Coming”, “Don’t More Hell To Pay”, “Fallen”, “God Damn Evil”, “Even The Devil Believes” and “The Battle Final”.
