STRYPER members Tim Gaines and Oz Fox are sad to announce the loss of their former SINDIZZY bandmate and brother Bobby MacNeil.
Fox: “An amazing artist and influential guitarist. I will miss him dearly.”
R.I.P. Bobby MacNeil! \m/
SinDizzy released one album, He’s Not Dead, in 1998. The album was re-released in 2008 via Girder Records with all new artwork and liner notes and more, although the release was never authorized by Tim Gaines, who holds the rights to the Sin Dizzy name.
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Christian rockers STRYPER will enter the studio in March to begin work on their next all-new original album for a late 2013 release.
In a 2012 interview with Guitar World, STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet stated about the band’s plans for the next studio CD: “We’re going into this new record with the mentality and thinking of making it like a ‘To Hell With The Devil 2’. That’s not to say it will actually sound like that album, but we really want it to be as great as ‘To Hell With The Devil’, which was our biggest album. We want people to put on this record and go; ‘Whoa! Wow! This is as good as or better than ‘To Hell With The Devil’!’ We want the new album to be a powerhouse and we’re going to do whatever it takes to make that happen.”
Frontiers Records yesterday announced the signing of STRYPER to a multi-album deal. The first CD to be made available the agreement will be a collection of re-recorded versions of the band’s classic songs, due in North America on March 26. Entitled “Second Coming” and produced by Michael Sweet, the CD will contain a total of 16 cuts — two from “The Yellow And Black Attack”, six from “Soldiers Under Command”, six from “To Hell With The Devil”, as well as two new tracks, “Bleeding From Inside Out” and “Blackened”.
STRYPER‘s “Live In Indonesia At Java Rockin’ Land” DVD was released in October 2012 via MVD Visual. The set was recorded in front of an enthusiastic crowd in 2010.
The band’s covers album, “The Covering”, was unlike any previous STRYPER recording in that it was a collection of cover songs from bands that inspired them and helped to shape their sound and musical identity, including hits from JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, LED ZEPPELIN, KANSAS and many others. “The Covering” also included “God”, a new original recording from STRYPER.
According to an update from STRYPER, the band’s new album featuring re-recorded songs from their catalogue will be released on March 22nd via Frontiers Records. It will be entitled Second Coming.
Frontman Michael Sweet has checked in with the following update:
“These mixes are sounding dope! No, doesn’t sound right. They’re sounding high! Nope, not right either. They’re sounding smokin’!”
Second Coming will feature two new songs ‘Bleeding From Inside Out’ and ‘Blackened’ and tracks from the The Yellow And Black Attack, Soldiers Under Command and To Hell With The Devil.
Frontman Michael Sweet: “The re-recorded songs are sounding awesome! Better than the originals in many ways!! One word to describe the record? Heavier.”
The tracklist is as follows:
‘Soldiers Under Command’
‘Makes Me Wanna Sing’
‘Reach Out’
‘Loving You’
‘Loud ‘N’ Clear’
‘The Rock That Makes Me Roll’
‘Calling On You’
‘First Love’
‘Surrender’
‘To Hell With The Devil’
‘Free’
‘Sing Along Song’
‘More Than A Man’
‘The Way’
‘Bleeding From Inside Out’
‘Blackened’
Stryper recently announced they will be headlining a winter NAMM House Of Blues show Anaheim, CA on January 26th, and that vocalists Todd La Torre (QUEENSRŸCHE, CRIMSON GLORY) and Jeff Scott Soto (TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, ex-TALISMAN) will be joining the band on stage during the show. Vocalist Tony Harnell (ex-TNT) has been added to the roster and is due to perform Stryper’s ‘The Rock That makes me Roll’ and the UFO classic ‘Lights Out’.
As previously reported, La Torre will be performing the IRON MAIDEN classic ‘The Trooper’ and Stryper’s ‘Surrender’ with the band. Soto will be performing QUEEN’s ‘Tie Your Mother Down’ and Stryper’s ‘All For One’.
STRYPER are due to perform in Argentina and Brazil in February, and they have issued the following video message to their South American fans:
The band’s schedule is currently as follows:
February
16 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Flores
17 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – Carioca Club
Stryper recently announced they will be headlining a winter NAMM House Of Blues show Anaheim, CA on January 26th, and that vocalists Todd La Torre (QUEENSRŸCHE, CRIMSON GLORY) and Jeff Scott Soto (TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, ex-TALISMAN) will be joining the band on stage during the show. According to an update from the band, La Torre will be performing the IRON MAIDEN classic ‘The Trooper’ and Stryper’s ‘Surrender’ with the band. Soto will be performing the QUEEN classic ‘Tie Your Mother Down’ and Stryper’s ‘All For One’.
Stay tuned for more news regarding more guests to take the stage with Stryper.
God rockers STRYPER have checked in with the following update:
“It’s official – Stryper will be headlining another winter NAMM House Of Blues show Anaheim, CA on January 26th. Be sure to come out and see Tim and Mike at the Overture Guitars booth, and check out our Overture signature guitars and basses.”
More details and ticket information will be available soon.
Stryper are gearing up for the release of an album’s worth of re-recorded versions of songs from their catalogue. The album – slated to be issued via Frontiers Records in March/April 2013 – will feature two new songs ‘Bleeding From Inside Out’ and ‘Blackened’ and tracks from the The Yellow And Black Attack, Soldiers Under Command and To Hell With The Devil.
Frontman Michael Sweet: “The re-recorded songs are sounding awesome! Better than the originals in many ways!! One word to describe the record? Heavier.”
The tracklist is as follows:
‘Soldiers Under Command’
‘Makes Me Wanna Sing’
‘Reach Out’
‘Loving You’
‘Loud ‘N’ Clear’
‘The Rock That Makes Me Roll’
‘Calling On You’
‘First Love’
‘Surrender’
‘To Hell With The Devil’
‘Free’
‘Sing Along Song’
‘More Than A Man’
‘The Way’
‘Bleeding From Inside Out’
‘Blackened’
Stryper will tour South America in 2013. Thus far, two shows have been confirmed:
February
16 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Flores
17 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – Carioca Club
Wendy Dio, the widow and longtime manager of legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW, HEAVEN & HELL), spoke to Eric Blair of “The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show” at this past Saturday’s (December 1) Icons & Idols-Rock ‘N’ Roll Auction at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, California.
Asked for her opinion of STRYPER‘s cover version of the BLACK SABBATH classic “Heaven And Hell”, Wendy said (see video), “I think they’re a great band, and I think it’s great that they would do something like that. I really do; I think it’s great. A lot of people do covers, and if they do them well, I think it’s great. It’s a very nice acknowledgement as well.”
STRYPER‘s version of “Heaven And Hell” was included on the band’s covers album, “The Covering”, which sold around 4,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 175 on The Billboard 200 chart.
Produced by frontman Michael Sweet, “The Covering” was unlike any previous STRYPER recording in that it was a collection of cover songs from bands that inspired them and helped to shape their sound and musical identity, including hits from JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, LED ZEPPELIN, KANSAS and many others.
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