Category: STRYPER

Legendary, long-running heavy metallers STRYPER are set to return with a brand new studio album, “The Final Battle” Firmly continuing the trend established over their last few albums, “The Final Battle” sees the band growing heavier while also maintaining their trademark melodies, virtuoso guitar playing, and air tight rhythms.
“The Final Battle” was crafted during the most challenging time of the band’s career. While they suffered the same setbacks faced by all artists during the course of the global pandemic, the band also had to contend with Oz Fox’s ongoing battle with brain tumors and for Michael Sweet, a detached retina which required multiple medical procedures, the use of an eye patch, and limited mobility for stretches of time.
But rather than let the adversity get them down, the band accepted these challenges and channeled it into writing some of the greatest songs of their storied career.
Defying all logic, “The Final Battle” somehow manages to best it’s immediate predecessors, “No More Hell To Pay” (2013), “Fallen” (2015), “God Damn Evil” (2018), and “Even The Devil Believes” (2020), continuing the band’s unprecedented late career streak of releasing arguably the best albums of their multi-decade career…
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Now we have here in exclusive the last of the STRYPER albums from the new Universal Music Japan campaign “HR/HM 1000 Vol.2 reissue series” including some awesome titles you need to own in a superior Japanese CD for a reasonable price.
And it’s the criminally underrated “Against The Law“, where Stryper changed in the musical and visual direction for a more commercial, eye catching look. Gone were the yellow and black spandex outfits, the bold evangelical lyrics and the original band logo with Isaiah 53:5. In their place were leather outfits, and lyrics more focused on rock n’ roll lifestyle.
Produced by expert Tom Werman, “Against The Law” is late ’80s US hard rock / metal with that big sound & polish. And we have Jeff Scott Soto on background / harmony vocals.
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As part of the new Universal Music Japan campaign “HR/HM 1000 Vol.2 reissue series” including some awesome titles you need to own in a superior Japanese CD for a reasonable price. We just purchased STRYPER‘s defining album “Soldiers Under Command“, and the sound quality is great.
”Soldiers Under Command” was the LP were everything came together for Stryper’s sound, which would finely pay off and earn them a gold status and started the band’s rise to stardom.
The hair metal catchiness from the era is blended with the band’s metallic attack on ”Soldiers Under Command’, for many, Stryper’s best balanced album. From one song to another, the arrangements are tight, and the hooks, harmonies and melodies manage to stay planted on solid metal terrain despite their potential radio accessibility.
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A couple years ago we featured a lot of albums from the Universal Music Japan campaign ‘HR/HM 1000‘, that meaning Hard Rock / Heavy Metal long time out of print record from their catalog at the price of 1000 Yen = about 10 USD.
Now 2020 the label started the “HR/HM 1000 Vol.2 reissue series”, including some awesome titles you need to own is a superior Japanese CD press for only 10 bucks.
And we have here in exclusive the STRYPER album “To Hell With The Devil“.
An Eighties Classic
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A couple years ago we featured a lot of albums from the Universal Music Japan campaign ‘HR/HM 1000‘, that meaning Hard Rock / Heavy Metal long time out of print record from their catalog at the price of 1000 Yen = about 10 USD.
Now 2020 the label started the “HR/HM 1000 Vol.2 reissue series”, including some awesome titles you need to own is a superior Japanese CD press for only 10 bucks.
And we have here in exclusive the STRYPER album “The Yellow And Black Attack!“, replicating its original release artwork, including full lyrics.
A Classic
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A couple years ago we featured a lot of albums from the Universal Music Japan campaign ‘HR/HM 1000‘, that meaning Hard Rock / Heavy Metal long time out of print record from their catalog at the price of 1000 Yen = about 10 USD.
Now 2020 the label started the “HR/HM 1000 Vol.2 reissue series”, including some awesome titles you need to own is a superior Japanese CD press for only 10 bucks.
And we have here in exclusive the 1988 STRYPER album “In God We Trust“.
An ’80s Classic
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STRYPER is alive and kickin’ with their solid new 2018 album and one of you asked for remasters of their more celebrated ’80s records. None of classic Stryper albums have been remastered with ‘modern’ technology / equipment. Their first LP’s received a ‘vintage’ Nineties remastering (beefed up gain only), and Michael Sweet did his own ‘retouch’ to To Hell With...

The last decade of STRYPER‘s career has been quite prolific and now they’re back with the strong “God Damn Evil“, the new album on Frontiers Music, and Avalon / Marquee in this Japanese Edition plus a bonus track.
When Stryper’s landmark ‘To Hell With The Devil’ hit MTV hard, many churchgoers were divided about their big hair, spandex jumpsuits, and heavy guitars. They gave us license to rock for the rock, as they liked to say.
Target practice was easy for the naysayers. The drastic heights of the aquanet hair. The iconic eyesore of the yellow and black attack wardrobe and staging. The saccharine sweet ballads that brought ladies out to a metal show.
Love them or hate them, Stryper was doing their own thing.
More than 30 years later, they still are.
The fashion, hair, and ballads have all been toned down, but the guitars have been cranked up. Lead singer Michael Sweet has traded his feminine-sounding falsetto to claim his place among the upper echelon of stratospheric screamers like Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson. The guys are confounding middle age gravity with insane vocal ranges.