{"id":8116,"date":"2009-06-24T10:55:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2009-06-24T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:58:30","slug":"stryper-signs-with-frontiers-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=8116","title":{"rendered":"STRYPER Signs European Deal With Frontiers Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/murderby-1.jpg\" alt=\"M\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrontiers Records is honored to welcome to its roster, legendary Christian glam metallers STRYPER &#8212; for the European release of the band&#8217;s brand new album &#8220;Murder By Pride&#8221;, on August 28th 2009.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFormed in 1983, Stryper are pioneers in the mainstream popularization of Christian hard rock and metal music, with overall sales in excess of 8 million records and one Platinum and two Gold records received for the albums &#8220;To Hell with the Devil&#8221; and &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221;. The band released five studio albums before disbanding in February 1992. Singer Michael Sweet pursued a solo career, while the other members have kept on working together, until Stryper came back in the original line up during 2005, releasing the acclaimed new album entitled &#8220;Reborn&#8221;.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/stryper2008cd.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn the past few years singer Michael Sweet started to cooperate with Boston and the result of this is a stunning recording of the classic song &#8220;Peace of Mind&#8221; on the brand new album &#8220;Murder By Pride&#8221;, which sees none other than Tom Scholz guesting on guitar.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8220;After years of speaking to fans and hearing comments like &#8216;more guitars,&#8217; &#8216;more solos&#8217; and &#8216;more screams'&#8221;, says Michael Sweet &#8220;I decided to keep those comments in mind as I wrote each song. It was important to me to try to get back to that early sound of STRYPER yet at the same time, to remain relevant today. It&#8217;s certainly not an easy thing to do but as I listen to &#8216;Murder By Pride&#8217;, I think that was accomplished&#8221;.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8220;I got the idea of the title &#8216;Murder By Pride&#8217; from seeing pride consume dreams, goals and many times, lives&#8221; continues Sweet &#8220;We all deal with pride and it can be crippling, so I wanted to write a lyric and a theme that would be a constant reminder of that. This record has been in the works for a long, long time and I can only hope that it was worth the wait!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8220;Murder By Pride&#8221; European tracklisting includes the following tracks:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n1. Eclipse Of The Son<br \/>\n2. 4 Leaf Clover<br \/>\n3. Peace Of Mind<br \/>\n4. Alive<br \/>\n5. The Plan<br \/>\n6. Murder By Pride<br \/>\n7. I Believe<br \/>\n8. Run In You<br \/>\n9. Love Is Why<br \/>\n10. Mercy Over Blame<br \/>\n11. Everything<br \/>\n12. My Love (I\u2019ll Always Show)<br \/>\n13. My Love, My Life, My Flame (Exclusive Bonus Track for Europe)<\/p>\n<p>\nStryper have also already confirmed some live appearances in Europe in early 2010, which will be followed by more dates which are currently being worked out. Stryper now are: Michael Sweet (vocals, guitar), Oz Fox (lead guitar), Tracy Ferrie (baass guitar) and Robert Sweet (drums).<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stryper.com\/\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.stryper.com\/<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontiers Records is honored to welcome to its roster, legendary Christian glam metallers STRYPER &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}