In anticipation of the forthcoming Sweet & Lynch album featuring Stryper frontman Michael Sweet, former Dokken guitarist George Lynch, ex-Megadeth bassist James Lomenzo, and S.U.N./ex-Whitesnake drummer Brian Tichy, they have unveiled the cover art for their debut album, Only to Rise. Check it out below.

They are also streaming the new song "Divine" at this location.

A new official Facebook page has been launched. It is currently under construction but fans are invited to check it out here.

The band, originally introduced as STiLL back in July, will release their debut album in February 2015 via Frontiers Records. Stay tuned for updates.

Check out the lyric video for their new song, "September", below:

Michael Sweet recently spoke with Tim Louie at The Aquarian weekly. An excerpt from the interview, featuring discussion on Sweet's collaboration with guitar legend George Lynch (ex-Dokken) is available below:

TL: I heard a clip of the Sweet Lynch song called “Time Will Tell”… Mind blown!

Sweet: "Yeah, that’s really cool and that’s a really cool tune. We just recently released a song called 'September'. It’s a really cool tune too. It doesn’t necessarily speak for the rest of the album. It’s definitely a bit of the odd man out in terms of stylistically, but it was really a relevant and powerful song for today’s times. We released it on 9/9, two days before the 9/11 anniversary, and it’s about 9/11.

But I am excited about this album because I have a particular style of singing and I can’t escape that. I’m not going to be something I’m not and try to sing like someone else because it’s just not going to be natural. That being said, this album is really different from Stryper, and when people hear it as a whole, they’re going to agree. It’s really cool, man. Some of the best playing I’ve heard in a long time and George, what’s really cool about it in regards to George, we all know and love George from the Dokken days because that’s what put him on the map and made everybody go, 'Wow.' He’s still going strong and sounds great and this takes me back to those days. What he did on this album in terms of guitar, they take me back to the Dokken days, and that’s a good thing in a very good way.

I’m really excited for people to hear it. And you know what’s really cool about it, we just stuck to what we do best and that’s our roots. What we all grew up on. James (Lomenzo), Brian (Tichy), George and myself, we all grew up on that great music from the ’70s and the ’80s and we stuck to that, but in the same sentence, we put a little bit more of a modern production on it. I produced the album and I wanted to make sure that it had some modern sounds to it so it didn’t sound dates or cheesy, but musically, it took you back to that time. So, you can close your eyes and you feel like you’re back in the late ’70s and early ’80s, and that’s what is really cool about the album."

Go to this location for the complete interview.