Three and a half decades ago, Stryper came on the scene and shook up both the Christian music and secular heavy metal scenes with forceful, yet tuneful music and lyrics that openly addressed the faith ...

Stryper at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on January 3, 1987 was my first concert. After living under the fundamentalist rule of the Islamic Republic in Iran for eight years with maximum resistance ...

No other band within modern-day Contemporary Christian music has been more legendary in the metal scene than Stryper. For a secular metal band, though, they are markedly different from others, using ...

"We’re disappointed,” said Stryper frontman Michael Sweet of the ban. “Stryper has always been about making people think outside the box. Our new album title God Damn Evil is a statement that's needed ...

In the beginning was Amy Grant. Sort of. She wasn’t the first to the Contemporary Christian Music party — a slew of shoeless longhairs in the early 70s beat her to it — but when she arrived, she was ...

Three and a half decades ago, Stryper arrived on the scene and shook up the worlds of both Christian music and secular heavy metal with forceful yet tuneful music and lyrics that openly addressed the ...

What do you get when you have a band that dresses in outfits that resemble a bumble bee, play heavy metal music, but sing lyrics about Jesus? The punchline, at least in the 1980’s, was a band with a ...

Last night our favorite Christian hair metal act Stryper played Whisky-A-Go-Go. Say what you will about the Orange County collective, but you have to admire them for sticking to the script for three ...

Man, the apocalypse is upon us. First there’s Prince giving his CD away with a concert ticket in England. Then there’s Radiohead going to the honor system for their new record. And now, there’s this, ...

The Alive Music Festival drew several thousand people Thursday to Atwood Lake Park for a mix of hip-hop, rock, country and pop music. The festival continues with the headliners Jeremy Camp on Friday ...

Grunge is constantly credited with killing hair metal as the movement fully bloomed in the early '90s. Stryper's Michael Sweet, however, has a different point of view and doesn't believe this ...