STRYPER Frontman Says People Who Liked 'The Covering' Will Love 'Second Coming

Hard rockers Stryper will release a collection of re-recorded versions of the band's classic songs in March via Frontiers Records. Entitled "Second Coming", 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 frontman Micheal Sweet addressed the obvious question: "Why did we re-record old songs?" That's a multiple-answer question.

"First, because we wanted to cut out the middle men and have a little more control over our own songs.
 

Second, we wanted to 'fix' some things that have annoyed the 'hell' out of us for the past 30 years such as: no bass in the mix of 'The Yellow And Black Attack' or 'Soldiers Under Command', and no Tim [Gaines, bass] on the mix of 'To Hell With The Devil'. The fact that I sound a little more like a man instead of a helium-induced kid at Disneyland. :-) The sheer joy of still loving these songs and still being able to perform these songs (well, we'll let the experts be the judge of that). And last but not certainly least? We did it just because we wanted to :-)

So there you go, the mystery is over and the reasons have been revealed.

Seriously, we're really excited about this record. It's one of the few re-records that I believe will stand against any of the originals if not surpass them.

If you liked 'The Covering', you'll love 'Second Coming'!"