STRYPER Schedules Michigan Signing Session
March 2, 2011, 13 years ago
Christian hard rockers STRYPER will be taking part in a signing session on March 19th at 1 PM at Rock Of Ages in Garden City, Michigan (31015 Ford Rd. - just outside of Detroit). The band will be perform later that night at Harpos in Detroit. For more info email:
rockofages@earthlink.net
Stryper are promoting their new covers album, appropriately titled The Covering, which features classic hits from JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, LED ZEPPELIN, KISS, VAN HALEN and others, along with the new studio track 'God', which is currently streaming online at BraveWords.com - head to the left-hand-side of the site to launch the KnuckleTracks Online Audio Player.
BraveWords.com conducted an extensive interview with frontman Michael Sweet recently. An excerpt follows:
The Covering features a tweaking of Stryper’s sound, not just that of the songs. Following their return in 2005 with Reborn, there was a call for the band to bring back the guitar solos and vocal acrobatics of the Soldiers Under Command and To Hell With The Devil eras. The band succeeded admirably with Murder By Pride in 2009, but The Covering is full to overflowing with those missing elements. According to Sweet it wasn’t an accident.
“It’s because the songs really called for that. If you back and listen to the original versions of most of those songs, you’ll hear lots of guitar and high-end vocals. Plus, we’re trying to get back to the things that people expect from Stryper. If you’re always wrestling to be artistic, sometimes you lose sight of what made you popular to begin with, and we realized that the twin harmony guitar solos, trading off solos, the high-end vocals, the background vocals, that’s all stuff people expect to hear from us.”Check out the entire feature at this location.
