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Barren Cross To Record New Material

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Barren Cross is “definitely” going to record new music.  That’s the word from from bass player Jim LaVerde, second from left, in this photo of the band, all together.  When The Blastozoic Era program director Colin “Cruz” Strombeck spotted this photo on LaVerde’s Facebook page last night, he was the first to ask, “Is there going to be new BC music?”

LaVerde did not answer whether it will be a full album or not.   But, c’mon…it’s been this long…Stryper puts out album after album…Bloodgood was putting out new albums…Barren Cross is overdue!

Also pictured, lead singer Michael Drive (fka: Mike Lee); guitarist Ray Parris and drummer Steve Whitaker.

Barren Cross was one of the top Christian metal bands of the 1980’s.  They were one of the first Christian bands to land a video on MTV.  And they were a favorite band of Colin Cruz (and incidentally, John Cooper of Skillet) growing up.

Rock For the King, dudes!

Stryper To Hell With The Devil…2.0???

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I think most Stryper fans know deep in their hearts that despite some solid recent albums,  Stryper will never be able to top their 1986 album To Hell With The Devil.   But they will soon release an album that may very well be their best album since… To Hell With The Devil.

The band recently recorded the whole album all over again at Spirithouse Studios in Massachussets.

Rights and use issues surround some of their earlier works and this will certainly give the band some more freedoms and probably open up some more income streams from airplay and other usage of the new versions of the songs.

~Colin Cruz, The Blastozoic Era Program Director