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STRYPER Release Official Lyric Video For ‘Near’ Track
December 23rd, 2022

American Christian heavy metal band Stryper have released an official lyric video for the track ‘Near’. Created by Wayne Joyner, the clip can be viewed below.

Stryper issued eleventh full-length studio album proper The Final Battle on October 21st, 2022 through Frontiers Music Srl.

Frontman Michael Sweet commented: “Although we have faced many obstacles over the past few years, we were somehow able to rise above everything that stood in our way and deliver what I believe to be our strongest release to date. Our new album encompasses everything that defines who we are: faith, guitar power, melodies and harmonies, consistency and longevity. We still have so much left to say musically and lyrically and this album showcases that. However, we couldn’t do it without our fans worldwide; those who have stood by us through it all, for almost 40 years! We are so honoured and blessed to be able to release our fourteenth studio album and to be making the best music of our lives / careers. Against all odds, we are still here.”

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Transgressor’
02. ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil’
03. ‘Same Old Story’
04. ‘Heart & Soul’
05. ‘Near’
06. ‘Out, Up & In’
07. ‘Rise To The Call’
08. ‘The Way, The Truth, The Life’
09. ‘No Rest For Wicked’
10. ‘Till Death Do Us Part’
11. ‘Ashes To Ashes’

Stryper’s line-up is as follows:

Michael Sweet (vocals)
Oz Fox (guitar)
Perry Richardson (bass, ex-Firehouse / ex-Maxx Warrior)
Robert Sweet (drums)

Music videos were released for the tracks ‘Transgressor’ and ‘Same Old Story’. In addition, official lyric videos were created for the songs ‘Rise To The Call’ and ‘Ashes To Ashes’. All four clips can also be viewed below.

Tenth studio record proper Even The Devil Believes was released in September 2020 via Frontiers.

Promotional photograph by Johanna Chattman.