The release date and the title of the new Stryper album are...

Soldier777 wrote:One thing that wasn't mentioned: if this is the official track list there isn't a title track of The Final Battle. Most of their albums have title tracks. Sometime bands would work out a title track and if it didn't work it wouldn't be included on the album.

All the previous albusn have a title track, minus the cover and rerecording album, and TYABA EP...

Soldier777 wrote:One thing that wasn't mentioned: if this is the official track list there isn't a title track of The Final Battle. Most of their albums have title tracks. Sometime bands would work out a title track and if it didn't work it wouldn't be included on the album.

Sometimes the name of the album is from a line in one of the songs.

Follower of Jesus wrote:That is, without any doubt, the most cheesy album cover of their entire career. Wow. I mean, it’s awesomely bad.

i'm not hating, or at least trying not to do so. I get into all sorts of music. Stryper, at least early on, were packaged as a glam rock (Christian Band)? For me it was hard to get past the packaging to actually hear the music over the spandex and hairspray. I will go back and try to listen more objectively.

FAIRWARNING wrote:

Follower of Jesus wrote:That is, without any doubt, the most cheesy album cover of their entire career. Wow. I mean, it’s awesomely bad.

i'm not hating, or at least trying not to do so. I get into all sorts of music. Stryper, at least early on, were packaged as a glam rock (Christian Band)? For me it was hard to get past the packaging to actually hear the music over the spandex and hairspray. I will go back and try to listen more objectively.

Stryper is Stryper.


A blend of traditional heavy metal (Judas Priest, Iron Maiden), "pop" metal (Van Halen, Ratt, Dokken), and melodic rock (Journey, Boston) with the grandiose vocal arrangements of pomp rock (Queen, Styx).

They've been leaning into heavier (almost power metal at times) territory as of late though.

That's my take anyway. 

MagnusPrime wrote:

FAIRWARNING wrote:

Follower of Jesus wrote:That is, without any doubt, the most cheesy album cover of their entire career. Wow. I mean, it’s awesomely bad.

i'm not hating, or at least trying not to do so. I get into all sorts of music. Stryper, at least early on, were packaged as a glam rock (Christian Band)? For me it was hard to get past the packaging to actually hear the music over the spandex and hairspray. I will go back and try to listen more objectively.

Stryper is Stryper.


A blend of traditional heavy metal (Judas Priest, Iron Maiden), "pop" metal (Van Halen, Ratt, Dokken), and melodic rock (Journey, Boston) with the grandiose vocal arrangements of pomp rock (Queen, Styx).

They've been leaning into heavier (almost power metal at times) territory as of late though.

That's my take anyway. 

And an extremely perfect take. And Styx, yes, especially in the vocal department.