Shredding North America Tour w/ Seven Kingdoms, Lutharo. Seventh studio album ‘Ultrapower‘ out now! Produced by Josh Schroeder (Lorna Shore, Tallah, King 810) unleashed on their label Record Breaking Records.

Blending classic heavy metal, hard rock, and 80’s hair metal, Striker has been making shredtacular anthems since 2007. The band has toured multiple times across Europe and North America along with festival appearances at 70,000 Tons of Metal, Bang Your Head Festival (Germany), and more to add to the almost 1000 shows performed in their decade-plus career. The band has been honoured with multiple Best Album awards in their home country of Canada from the JUNO Awards, Western Canadian Music Awards, and the Edmonton Music Awards. Since their inception, band has released seven studio albums ‘Eyes In The Night’ (2010, Iron Kodex), ‘Armed To The Teeth’ (2012, Napalm), ‘City Of Gold’ (2014, Napalm), ‘Stand In The Fire’ (2016, Record Breaking), ‘Striker’ (2017, Record Breaking), ‘Play To Win‘ (2018, Record Breaking), ‘Ultrapower’ (2024, Record Breaking). To fans experiencing the band’s first attempt at a synth-wave track with ‘Live To Fight Another Day’, this new offering sees group making a shredding love letter to the hard-rocking era of guilty pleasures.

The band comments on the album:

“Starting with the album cover, we wanted the artwork to represent how we feel as a band right now. We are an engine that is fired up and ready to roll. We’re made of metal and our circuits gleam! The album itself is an amalgamation of 5 years of writing and exploring music. With influences from AOR to Speed Metal, Hardcore to Hair Metal, Steely Dan to Deathcore, you name it, it made its way into the album. In the end with the help of Josh Schroeder’s guiding hand, we melted it all together to present something uniquely Striker. Lyrically we’ve stuck to the Striker tradition of writing montage songs for movies that don’t exist, songs about our spiraling serfdom, and lyrics about the evils that lurk in the shadows.”

Shredding North America – Seven Kingdoms, Striker, Lutharo, Osyron​
# = w/ Osyron

Nov 24 – Jackknife – Kelowna, BC
Nov 25 – Dicken’s – Calgary, AB #
Nov 26 – The Starlite Room – Edmonton, AB #
Nov 27 – The Black Cat – Saskatoon, SK #
Nov 28 – Sidestage – Winnipeg, MB #
Nov 30 – Reggie’s – Chicago, IL
Dec 1 – Sanctuary – Detroit, MI
Dec 3 – Meadows – Brooklyn, NY
Dec 4 – Metro – Baltimore, MD
Dec 5 – Hangar 1819 – Greensboro, NC
Dec 6 – The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
Dec 7 – The Orpheum – Tampa, FL
Dec 8 – Conduit – Orlando, FL

With the band writing material since 2018, ‘Ultrapower’ is a collection of Striker tinkering and exploring new avenues. From the album’s opening track ‘Circle Of Evil’, a Malmsteen-esque metal banger about secret societies and the evil dealings behind closed doors to their previously released single ‘BEST Of The BEST Of The BEST’ serving up some big riffs and hockey arena vocals to ‘Blood Magic’, which might be one of Striker‘s most progressive songs, taking cues from bands like King Diamond, with its unconventional structure and punctuated guitar solos. From the band delving into their obsession for late 80s AOR and pop rock with ‘City Calling’, an ode to 1987, and bands like Toto and Kenny Loggins with their hook-powered albums.