Legendary  hard rockers Stryper will enter the studio this weekend to begin recording their new album for a late spring/early summer release via Frontiers. The band’s guitarist/vocalist Michael Sweet told Eddie Trunk‘s SiriusXM satellite radio show, “Eddie Trunk Live”:

‘The [other] guys [in Stryper] come out here in three days, to my house, and they’re gonna be here for eight days. I’m gonna teach ’em all the songs. We’re gonna go through two songs a day and get ’em down — really, really get ’em down. Then we’re gonna go in the studio. We load in on February 1 at the studio we always record at, SpiritHouse [Recording Studios] in Northampton, [Massachusetts]. We’ve done the last five albums there. We’re gonna load in on [February 1] and we start tracking on [February 2].’

Regarding the musical direction of the new Stryper material, Sweet said: Continue reading »

As previously reported, guitarist/vocalist Michael Sweet of legendary metallers Stryper is “in writing mode” for the band’s next studio album for a 2015 release via Frontiers. Sweet just reported the following:

‘Here’s The Latest! I’ve been working hard for the past 4 days and so far 8 songs are ready to go! Aside from a few tweaks here and there over the next week, I’m loving the direction!!! I dropped the low E down to D on three songs and overall this album will be the heaviest yet. There is a ballad that’s a straight ahead “rock” ballad and I may try for another as well but I have to tell you, I’m super excited about the style and I feel in my gut that this album will not only rival “NMHTP” but quite possibly surpass it. It would be very cool to make the “the best album” of our career (when many people have already stated that “NMHTP” was and is). I believe we’re easily on that path right now.’ Continue reading »