Nathan James joins Michael Sweet, Joel Hoekstra, Tommy Aldridge and Marco Mendoza in Iconic

Iconic, the new band featuring Michael Sweet, Joel Hoekstra, Marco Mendoza, Tommy Aldridge and Nathan James, have released the first track, Nowhere To Run, from their debut album Second Skin.

“This was a very refreshing and unique experience,” Michael Sweet said. “Musically, very different from Stryper, which is, of course, very different from all the other projects I am involved with. This is more of a throwback to the past, and it felt good to do that. It reminded me of how great the music of the past really is.”

Joel Hoekstra was pleased to be back working on riff making, and the chance to work again with Tommy Aldridge was easy to embrace. “The riffs were all very comfortable to me because I wrote most of them