Saturday night our favorite Christian hair metal act Stryper play B.B. King’s. Say what you will about the Orange County collective, but you have to admire them for sticking to the script for three ...

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 ...

For much of their career, Tim Gaines (pictured far left in the photo above) has been the man holding down the low end for Stryper. But in a new interview, the band's longtime bassist reveals that he's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The members of Stryper are, from left: Drummer Robert Sweet, vocalist and guitarist Michael Sweet, guitarist Oz Fox and bassist ...

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 ...

Where: Knitting Factory, 919 W. Sprague Ave. Cost:$20 in advance and $25 day of show. Info: (509) 244-3279, www.sp.knittingfactory.com “The Final Battle” sounds like the swan song of an album for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. ENTERPRISE, AL - JUNE 15: Robert Sweet, Tim Gaines, Robert Sweet ...

In 1984, a hard-rock quartet from Whittier, Calif., made up of brothers Michael and Robert Sweet, Oz Fox and Tim Gaines, changed the name of their band from Roxx Regime to Stryper and rewrote all ...

Stryper's Michael Sweet woke up and chose violence when he challenged his followers to "fight" him over his favorite "boy" band, Backstreet Boys. However, it's clear from the Stryper bandleader's tone ...

Ever since Cain and Abel, brothers have had trouble seeing eye to eye. In pop music, that’s been all too apparent in famous blowups between Phil and Don Everly, the Kinks’ Ray and Dave Davies and ...

Say what you will about OC's legendary head banging Christian metal band Stryper, but you have to admire them for sticking to the script for three decades — or is that scripture? Putting out new music ...

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 ...