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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 ...

Stryper frontman Michael Sweet has taken to social media to say that he's thinking of starting a Stryper tribute band. Sweet, who formed the pioneering Christian glam metal outfit in 1983, is clearly ...

Stryper is back with “When We Were Kings,” a solid album with big riffs and an even bigger message. The band’s 12th album, which dropped in September, is just another step in the long Stryper journey.

Christian metal band Stryper sure love to play the victim in terms of their Christian beliefs, especially lately. Just a few months back, drummer Robert Sweet claimed that the group was “given a hard ...

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 ...

Legendary, long-running metal band STRYPER are setting the stage for a great year with a new single entitled "End of Days." Accompanied by a new lyric video, the track also helps announce the band's ...

Seriously, fuck cancer. Unfortunately, less than a month after undergoing a biopsy, Styrper frontman Michael Sweet has reveal that he’s been diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. Sweet made the ...

Stryper performed Wednesday night at San Antonio’s Aztec Theater as part of a tour celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary. The members’ advancing ages combined with the group’s status as hair metal’s ...

MINERAL CITY − Ashley Petcavage expects her first time at the Alive Music Festival to be special. She'll join thousands of others who are going to Atwood Lake Park for the three-day event, which ...

I was first introduced to Stryper by the late, great Rob Campo of the New York (and later, L.A.) metal scene back in 1987. I know nothing of Christian metal. In fact, I know almost nothing about ...