Seems the orders from frontier EUrop are quarters splitted LP, and US are half :D (got mine quarter as well as another friend, ordered to Frontiersshop EUr) ALl my friend from US got and half split
Great video! I canceled the Frontiers order and got my refund so I can buy the CD at a local store last Monday September 16. I will reorder some items on Frontiers without the CD. I listened to it this week several times and I like the album. The more I listen to it the more I like it. Not keen on Raptured though for some reason. Wasn't keen on Betrayed by Love but It's growing on me. It's not unusual for me to not like a song or 2 on an album. At this point, I would rank the new album around the middle of the last 6 albums. I think my ranking would be: 1. Even the Devil Believes 2. Fallen 3. No More Hell to Pay 4. When We Were Kings 5. God, Damn Evil 6. The Final Battle. I think I will eventually go through the 5 albums to see if this current ranking will change. Stryper and those who work behind the scenes work very hard and it shows. Michael Sweet mentioned doing 21 Stryper studio albums which is 5 more if you count The Covering, Second Coming and To Hell with the Amps which is currently a total of 16 albums so far. If he achieves this it will be pretty impressive. I have a question: On the album cover, Christ is wearing a crown of thorns as he seems to be in His Glory or post resurrection. Is that Biblical? Also, is it wrong to produce an image of Christ on artwork? I don't think it is as long as it's not the object of worship but an appreciation of the artist in making Christ relatable.
Couple of my favorites on this album are Raptured and Trinity. I have a hard time ranking the albums but Fallen is at the top of my list. Problem is a lot of them are at the top of my list. The only Stryper albums I am not as keen on are Reborn and Murder by Pride. Murder by Pride would have been better as a Michael Sweet solo album, not Stryper. Best bet is to put them all your favorite Stryper Albums (that is 12 for me, including 7 Weeks Live In America) on a MP3 player and run shuffle! Oh, I disagree with their eschatology (I am not a dispensationalist) so those songs can bug me if I listen to the lyrics to closely but those songs also tend to be some of the hardest rocking cuts too. Second coming is great but you just can't replicate the original youthful singing. Oh, forgot about To Hell with the Amps and cannot see myself buying that one unless in the dollar bin. Stryper is about metal and metal is about amps. Not sure what they were thinking to go without the amps. I really am not fond of any of the new covers. I prefer covers like they had in the 1980s. Although the original THWTD cover was similar to their more recent covers. Anyway, Stryper is my favorite metal band and about the onlhy metal I listen to other than Bloodgood, especially their 2013 album with Oz Fox.
Great review. Awesome album. I got mine recently too,. My yellow /black vinyl is not half/ half . It is in quarters - yellow /black 😎
Whoa! That’s cool.
Seems the orders from frontier EUrop are quarters splitted LP, and US are half :D (got mine quarter as well as another friend, ordered to Frontiersshop EUr) ALl my friend from US got and half split
Great video! I canceled the Frontiers order and got my refund so I can buy the CD at a local store last Monday September 16. I will reorder some items on Frontiers without the CD. I listened to it this week several times and I like the album. The more I listen to it the more I like it. Not keen on Raptured though for some reason. Wasn't keen on Betrayed by Love but It's growing on me. It's not unusual for me to not like a song or 2 on an album. At this point, I would rank the new album around the middle of the last 6 albums. I think my ranking would be: 1. Even the Devil Believes 2. Fallen 3. No More Hell to Pay 4. When We Were Kings 5. God, Damn Evil 6. The Final Battle. I think I will eventually go through the 5 albums to see if this current ranking will change. Stryper and those who work behind the scenes work very hard and it shows. Michael Sweet mentioned doing 21 Stryper studio albums which is 5 more if you count The Covering, Second Coming and To Hell with the Amps which is currently a total of 16 albums so far. If he achieves this it will be pretty impressive. I have a question: On the album cover, Christ is wearing a crown of thorns as he seems to be in His Glory or post resurrection. Is that Biblical? Also, is it wrong to produce an image of Christ on artwork? I don't think it is as long as it's not the object of worship but an appreciation of the artist in making Christ relatable.
I do not believe it is an issue to have artwork of Christ.
Couple of my favorites on this album are Raptured and Trinity. I have a hard time ranking the albums but Fallen is at the top of my list. Problem is a lot of them are at the top of my list. The only Stryper albums I am not as keen on are Reborn and Murder by Pride. Murder by Pride would have been better as a Michael Sweet solo album, not Stryper. Best bet is to put them all your favorite Stryper Albums (that is 12 for me, including 7 Weeks Live In America) on a MP3 player and run shuffle! Oh, I disagree with their eschatology (I am not a dispensationalist) so those songs can bug me if I listen to the lyrics to closely but those songs also tend to be some of the hardest rocking cuts too. Second coming is great but you just can't replicate the original youthful singing. Oh, forgot about To Hell with the Amps and cannot see myself buying that one unless in the dollar bin. Stryper is about metal and metal is about amps. Not sure what they were thinking to go without the amps. I really am not fond of any of the new covers. I prefer covers like they had in the 1980s. Although the original THWTD cover was similar to their more recent covers. Anyway, Stryper is my favorite metal band and about the onlhy metal I listen to other than Bloodgood, especially their 2013 album with Oz Fox.
It's good but not as good as the final battle.