Satan is unequivocally the most metal character in history. During the 1980s, bands embracing his evil imagery spurred the Satanic Panic, when straitlaced parents were terrified that their children ...

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 ...

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 ...

The embattled frontman of a Christian metal band sentenced to prison for plotting to have his wife killed recently confessed that he and other band members had become atheists, but continued to pose ...

Growing up in an evangelical Christian household, I was not allowed to listen to secular music—or to any music that did not explicitly point to Jesus Christ and reflect “biblical values.” Heavy metal, ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - Christian metal band STRYPER is coming to perform at the Devon this summer. The group has been performing for four decades. The marked their 40th anniversary tour in fall of ...

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 ...

In the early 1980s, Michael Sweet formed a band called Roxx Regime with older brother Robert, eventually changing the name to Stryper. Their full-length debut, 1985’s Soldiers Under Command, became ...

Daniel Williams, a former drummer for the Christian metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada, was killed in a plane crash in San Diego this week. He was reportedly aboard a Cessna jet that struck power ...