Metal Mythos: STRYPER 

well good for them lol

If they were muslims NOBODY would say a word about them

@@jts400hp It's kind of hard to imagine a Muslim rock band doing well in the USA. Also, Islam kind of a has a mad-on for singing and dancing.

@@TheFpCassini DUH DUH "well good for them lol" DERP!

@@venuspluto67 those are the devil's arts. They talibanned music as the root of it all.

haha great story. I guess Roy Orbison secretly worshiped the devil too.

Interesting perspective. I guess all people hold a biased POV of the things they hold sacred. And that isn't a knock on your grandpa or any other person. It is just my opinion.

Ironic considering the one song Johnny Cash Actually talks about wearing black.

Imagine thinking a dye in the cloth you wear to cover your ass makes you a satanist

I actually read that as Rapist Preacher

@seabrook1976 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He has his priorities backwards

Oh shit...🥺

Heck. Why not both?

He likes black metal, ok!?!?

Amen

AMEN!!!

@Tommy Two Tone Well bless your heart.

Jesus always was, and always will be *the spirit of rebellion* ... The church wants you in your place. Kneel, stand, sit, kneel. If ya go for that kinda thing, I don't know what to tell you.

I have to say you make a good point. To often rebellion is attributed to the beast. Modern christianity promotes passivity to the point of being walked on. Rather than trampling on what's genuinely evil.

Transgressor is FIRE, couldn't agree more!

That note he hits at the end?!?!?! Unbelievable.

Transgressor amazing

They have down tuned a snitch, but almost not enough to tell. Micjaels voice still rules almost every other metal vocalists around his age!!

I saw them in Houston also, somewhere around ‘91 or ‘92. I think the club was called Backstage.

Awesome

Gee, I got my first Bible at a church. They then proceeded to teach me what the books said, why they were in that order, and the history since the last ones were written...

​@@rjonboy7608And?

Dude, thanks so much. I've been a fan of your stuff since your review of the Blade Runner PC game. Godspeed!

Love the channel, any chance of a mythos covering either Ozzy’s storied solo career post sabbath or Def Leppard?

some of the best content on youtube

I know, just discovered this channel last week

And the single absolutely S L A Y S.

Holy shi..... I mean father!! Awesome I needed another helping of stryper cant wait!!

If they release it on time, you won't have to wait that long. You've got about a week or so longer to wait (early September 2020).

Thank you

Album is out!!! Get it

I like you already!

Who could better understand the idealistic purity and gatekeeping of Norwegian black Metal than a traditional Catholic?

And god fucking speed to him!

Not true. I like both too.

Nope, liked Bathory since the first record and Stryper since 'Soldiers...'

*Raises hand

Believe it or not, as much as I have first become a Christian back in 1983, I actually like King Diamond's voice and some of his music. Go figure.

Well I was gonna say the haters can eat a 40 gallon garbage bag full of cat uteruses, but your way will do.

Man, their new albums are spectacular 🤤

YES! Stryper are one of the best metal bands

Wow, they suck huge donkey labia.

Amen

There was a Christian Rock Artist (Jeff or Geoff) who had an awesome song called "Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music"

​@@mr.m.1409 I think that was a guy named Larry Norman.

@@superflyguitarguy3647 Wrong. Geoff Moore. "Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?"

I never rallied any bands i was a garbage dump or throw away picker whatever’s laying around I just gravitated to kinda keeps one out of that bind with parental units now ima parent I feel so uncool but I bought my son his first drums and guitar aleady he just turned four he’s 5 In sept 21st woo trying not to be that parent roboto say no crap his mom took it down so im like where is his stuff the Alesis drums and Ibanez junior guitar so hope she puts it back up she’s a weirdo , , stay up ,

Have your husband listen to their 2018 album it's a masterpiece that tops anything they have previously done.

@@nighttigercomics7323 Yes. I prefer Stryper's post-Dio compilations, actually. The same and better music, but often with much more subtle Xtian elements in their narratives. They could be singing about any challenge that gets people inspired, god or no god. Now that they've all been married for decades, their love songs have also grown up :) And yeah. I just coined the term. *Dio age metal* and *post-Dio metal.* Like pre-Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy. Well... maybe just post-Dio as in after Dio died, not "post" as the prefix is used by philosophers :) Anyway... If Rage wants to quote me he'll have to give me a nod and some free metal goodies for it xP

Haha I have the same bible....tell ur hubby he rocks!!!

Embrasse Le Chat not at my church

*Stryper are a great band.* I'm not religious, but I'm glad for my born again friend Brian who introduced me to them back in '88 when we were both way too young to be so wild. He was approaching Nikki Sixx levels of addiction when "god" (yeah I'm still skeptical af xP) spoke to him through his acid trip and told him to get help or he'd die like his friend, who was alive and well a few hours earlier. As soon as Brian was sober enough to deal with people, he went to check on his friend, who had just been found dead of an overdose, and carried away in an ambulance. Unfortunately 'god' also told him that his hot mess of a self would have to refuse one last temptation, which turned out to be my horny underage thang lol. So we never did hook up, but he lived and kicked cold turkey, and went to work at a street outreach centre that specialized in troubled youth. My friend and his street mission saved my ass a few times, and I eventually came around and went back to school, so it all worked out for the best. I'm still not a Xtian, but I'm a life long fan of the band \m/

Good, clean Xtian living has also kept them fit enough to keep performing through their middle years. Sweet's voice is still gorgeous after all this time. Very few of the dope fiend rock stars from the 80s were so lucky, except for maybe Slash, Keith and Ozzy. Blood transfusions? Or did the booze and dope have a pickling effect on those 3 or smthg? lol

@@XenaBe25. Respekt

Bloodgood did the same by the way. They had the same negativity as Stryper did.

The problem is that most of the bands that followed Stryper sucked. There were a few bands, like Bloodgood, the first Holy Soldier record, etc that were decent.

@@timbrown6629 Guardian was good too...esp fire and love and miracle mile. They also did a cover of the yellow and black attack. there were more decent bands...but most are unknown. Believer would be an exception as well as Galactic Cowboys

There are a lot of fairly good Christian '90s extreme metal bands, almost all of which have faded into almost total obscurity. Stuff like Paeramecium, Encryptor; to a lesser extent Antestor and Mortification. They're not all _fantastic_ but definitely good enough it's odd they're some of the most forgotten bands of that era.

​@@timbrown6629I'm sorry bit Underoath and The Devil Wears Prada do not suck

Stryper is my favorite Christian band PERIOD. They're great musicians and great people. There's no other band in the world I know that throws bibles to the audience. God bless this incredible band!

I don't think you know the real and true and only Living God.

@@markuse3472 ?

@@nameeman5051 I mean when reading, studying and researching Gods Word, it is obvious such music is not God-based, and I mean it doesn't represent nor does it reflect the theme and moral of The Bible. How is there humility and meekness in such music? There isn't, and since they would not have been popular had they mentioned Jesus Christ and Jehovah by name they left that out to please the overall masses and doing so one distances themselves from God and pushes others away from learning about Gods sovereignty. I agree that their music was uplifting and encouraging, but it was Not Christian.

@@markuse3472 Stryper aside, I'm not a fan, but... what chord progressions are acceptable? What sequence of notes? Are any particular rhythms within the guidelines? What instruments fit the parameters? What tones are said instruments allowed to emit? What time signatures are allowed ? What level of skill is allowed?polyrhythms for example... is an artist allowed to train to a point where technical proficiency exhibits a masterpiece of notes, chords, timing, rhythm & beat? Is volume and/or intensity an issue ? The reason I ask about intensity is because if I were to write a score for David killing Goliath I'm not sure it would sound like spring flowers, fluffy clouds and sparkling sunshine.

@@nameeman5051 A good writer is able to write anything and make it stand out. If the movie "The Insider" had been written or done in the 1960's, it would likely not have had any swearing in it and it would still have been a Great film. The movie "Wild Things" would have been a great movie without the vulgarity and sexual content because it was a Good story, but people as you would say both of the movies I mentioned needed to be as they are or they would not be as good. Only a feeble person would not recognize "Toccata Con Fuga" or "Carmina Burana" as a darker feel, mode and tone to them than many other classical pieces.

Guitarbro221 And Michael even more so. On their best days, I'd put them as a pair up there with guys like Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing easily.

HeathenMetalhead221 I AM AGREE BROTHER , ALSO MICHAEL SWEET HE IS A REALLY GOOD GUITARIST 🤘🏻🎸!

I want to say that Metal Edge magazine back in the day listed Oz Fox as "the next guitar god" , so at least there's that. But yeah, I agree.

Fox is 666 in gematria.

I saw them live, as well as Priest and Slayer. Stryper hold up, they were great, twin metal guitar attack.

We need Aryan metal

Lol, Christianity is based on non-thinking.

@@NwoDispatcher is there no Aryan Metal?

@@TUKByV iron maiden, amon amarth?

@Simo688 we need Aryan restaurants lol

jeremy leal LOVE YOUR COMMENT BRO, 🎸🤘🏻🔥🎸🎸.STRYPER IS THE CHRISTIAN METAL VERSION OF MOTLEY CRUE 😁🤘🏻🔥🔥🎸🎸!

Make that *three!* Edit: at the time of writing, they have released eighteen more albums and counting, now let's hear from Erin Andrews at the scene, Erin?

Their newtracks are amazing

I saw the actual sermon on tv in 1988 & remember my Dad asking "Don't you have that album?" He was old school but didn't see anything wrong with it,& sad Jimmy was full of shit😂

The evangelicals of the 80s had the exact same issues the soy-swilling concern-trolls of today have; they're more interested in preaching their own praises to the choir than they are with actually saying anything worth believing in.

@@tripleoo0 I'm not entirely convinced that the evangelicals of the 80's aren't the same people as liberals today, just a different religion.

@@kungfuman82 Agree with the sentiment, but I think I'd put it as "different people, same religion", the worship of the self. Don't let this fallen world get you down. Love, Peace and God Bless.

No more hell to pay is an excellent album

Tourniquet is criminally underappreciated.

You need to. I couldn’t believe how good the new stuff was after like you listened to them in my teens.

God Damn Evil in my opinion is their greatest album. I don't know a band who has done there best work 30+ years into their career.

@@slamdancer1720 I agree! I honestly find it more entertaining than God Damn Evil but mainly because the sound in NMHTP is... "Balanced..." (For lack of a better way of describing it 😂) It's melodic enough to think of Stryper's golden days but also having enough heavy elements to keep your head banging (or in my case noding). GDE has some great songs in it but not enough to knock NMHTP off its stool.

Two words, sir: "Killswitch Engage." Amazing metal band and the lead vocalist is black. Their cover of Holy Diver is as good as if not better than Dio. Race is not a barrier here.

@@danagray9709100%

They would love to have you as a fan.

I had a black friend who was a metal head

@@Eddie-uf6bs I still have white friends that listens to hip hop

NBC was different back then

Dude NBC in the 1980s was like more conservative than Fox news is today they were like OneAmerica

Yeah exactly!!!

That's what happens when you wear tiny hats

You spelled FOX wrong.

Yep! Agreed. I remember listening to it back in the 80's when it came out, and it still rocks, and I instantly remembered and sang along in this video. And I'm an atheist ;) Sometimes, the message, the look, the attitude or some other weird shit (and every artist has one) that we don't like and makes us cringe, overshadows the core of it all: the music!

Amen i want to make so metal like this too i see them as an inspiration praise jesus.

Amen

There are worship bands of every caliber. From R&B and Rap to Metal and Pop to Ska and Punk, and so on. Something for everyone. That’s what the Good Lord intended for us; to extend the message to others, no matter the format. God is universal like music 👍🙏

Sorry man but Stryper is not a religion group at all.. they called christians cuz zthey decide to follow Jesuschrist an not christianity..!! 👍👍

And, arguably, stryper has taken the lord’s message to more people than those churches ever did.

@@infinity.8 Christianity is not a religion either. Its a relationship and there is a 180 degree PHYSICAL difference between Christianity and religion.

@@Deetroiter yeah i know so well i did rhe same i am a rock lover.. 👍👍👍

@@scottroyce5803 u should read again what i said cuz i think u are taking in the worng way. Read it till get it..!! 😁👍

Jorge, even Oz himself was saying how all his riffs were sounding bland and the same so he enlisted the help of a buddy Tony Palacios to help him broaden his style. Tony plays for Guardian, another under-appreciated Christian rock band.

@@media696 Not really. Scott Stapp just became a Christian a few years ago. Wrote a biography on his rode to Faith. He probably read a Bible a time or two and wrote a couple good songs with vague Christian ideas. Stryper was awesome. Some songs were cheesy.

Stryper is not hair metal. They are heavy metal.

Jeffery Claborn me too! Petra never did it for me. Rez Band were great, but a little ‘dated’ sounding. Stryper came along and blew me away! Finally, some excellent metal without the garbage lyrics! Their new stuff is excellent too!

@@scottishbananaclan They got the hair, they got the metal, they got the glamorizing lyrics and smooth, undistorted guitar solos. Nothing wrong with hair metal, man.

Me as well. I was 13 and in 7th grade when THWTD dropped. Southern gospel was the only thing allowed in my house. Secretly, I had been listening to Crue, WASP, and KISS but with Stryper, there was no hiding it. Bold lyrics and incredible musicianship. To this day, I relish a twin guitar attack!

They rocked like heaven 😎

Cause it was a great album

I sure hope you went back and listened to Soldiers Under Command. And then The Yellow and Black Attack. And then To Hell With The Devil.

@@B_Dog_33 they were all great my friends!!!

Excellent production.

The title track is easily my favorite Stryper song.

so cool..!!!.

Thats amazing!

@WhoDarestheMAN gamer so are imaginary people living in the clouds that help your favorite sports team win. As are talking snakes and people living to be 900 years old.

@BIG DYLO He said he was Christian, not Catholic

Noel Perez needs standards..

as a christian..*yawn*

Wasnt there a WASP and Stryper tour? They were under the same label for a while...would have been nice to have seen meat and bibles on the floor after a throw down of that magnitude.

I would love to see that for merely the spectacle.

I saw W.A.S.P at a small club in my area in California in the late '90s and their sound was so powerful they nearly tore the roof off. I had not been a big fan of theirs in the '80s (I was more into Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Rush, Black Sabbath, etc.), but I did enjoy their great show.

Stryper actually opened for slayer in Mexico in 2006

Gekokujo76 That's funny because Blackie Lawless is now an even bigger bible thumper than Stryper

You Got that vibe too!!!!

He definitely has an extensive vocabulary and is a Gifted Talent. Those are gifts from God and unfortunately, they will not get Razor to heaven. He needs to (as all who will be in heaven must), trust in the substitutionary life, punishment and death of Jesus Christ Alone. Nobody but Christ is Worthy, and that is why we must trust in Him Alone.

Exactly

@Andy Salter Hell for Satan!

They're no different than any one else.

A7xandria NICE COMMENT 🎸🤘🏻⚡️⚡️!

Goota love thoose butthurt atheists that really feel the need to reply to every single reliegious person's coments to feel better and mentaly superior. It never fails man.

Cinocephalus You realize that not all atheists are not like that you bible thumper.

Haha, I'm not even a christian nor even talked about all atheists. Jeez, the triggering is so easy on hardcore ahteists,

As opposed to the religious, who feel they have to flaunt their ridiculous superstition wherever they go? It's almost like RU-vid is populated with an imbalanced number of narcissist fuckwits.

Cinocephalus And you automatically assume I'm an atheist when I'm actually agnostic.

Me before this video: Christian metal? LOLOLOL Me after this video: This still sucks.

I'm a former atheist and this song is for you: Stryper - From Wrong to Right (1984) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SqhPVWPllY4.html I've changed my ways from wrong to right. The devil never pays, no, he robs just like a thief in the night So many bands give the devil all the glory It's hard to understand, we want to change the story [Chorus] We want to rock one way, on and on. You'll see the light some day All say Jesus is the way. [Verse 2] Satan is a fool and it's so insane. Some people think he's cool, you play with fire, You'll feel the pain. Why lose when you could win? Give God a try. The devil's not your friend, the truth is not a lie. I've changed my ways from wrong to wright Evil never pays, no, the truth is not a lie. [Repeat Chorus]

@@HansS11160 the devil does not exist and certainty has nothing to do with being atheist

Same here. Loved this band ever since 1985.

For me the lyrics ruin it. I cant stand to hear anybody going on about their religion. I really think people should keep that to themselves. I dont want hear it. Its everywhere already and it makes me sick. The US is a tax free haven for this kind of sickness. So my message in response to theirs is Fuck religion and fuck stryper.

@@ktcadd you kinda just gave us YOUR religious view...and we didn't ask for it...so fuck YOU as well

I hope that i would been living in the mid 80s

But I'm only 13 years old

@@blind_channel_fp 😂👍👍👍 I turn 58 on Wednesday. You're young enough to be my grandchild. In fact, I have a 14 year old grandson. The 80's rocked. I Love STRYPER

@@friedgreentomatoes4998 what do you think was 80s stryper better than todays stryper

@@friedgreentomatoes4998 I think that they were better in the 80s

Capt Char Mine does! On Thursday nights the 18-30 group get together and watch videos and eat. Not the typical stuff like Petra (ugh...) Last week, it was all Johnny Cash, and egg roll casserole which is much better than it sounds. But there's definitely been some Stryper.

Some do! Times change but always seem to be behind.

Thanks and you as well. The newer stuff is really cool. God Bless.

Awesome amen!

Nobody: Crazy Pastors: *"strapper' ez devul muzic"*

Ever heard of Count Raven?

Me too

Paramecium is a great band.

And they’re better NOW than they’ve ever been!

Have you read the Bible? Actual Christians would be closer to Muslims if they weren't forced to temper themselves by the United States Constitution. Just read a book about the Dark Ages if you doubt it.

Doug Pridgen "Just read a book about the Dark Ages if you doubt it." Well given that I study the Medieval church as part of my discernment, no they would not be. The "dark ages" themselves were a myth created during the Reformation to undermine the church, and it was reinforced by "Enlightenment". Having read about the church in the middle ages though, monasticism and mysticism reigned supreme in the church at the time, so the kind of violence you see from muslims was nonexistent, outside of the less devout, more worldly populous engaging in petty squabbles, and of course warring kingdoms (not much has changed on those fronts in the whole of human history though). Outside of the crusades, the church has never called on the masses for violent affairs. In fact, while rallying for the crusades, St. Bernard literally reproved an entire village for persecuting other religions in the area under the guise of "holy war". And this is the man who founded the Knights Templar. If you're referring to technology/science, again no. Not only were natural sciences actually pursued by the monks arguably more than anyone to the point of discovering things like the concept of genes (in an era where doctors were basically quacks and con men), but cases like the incident with Galileo and others never take into account any other sort of political or social issues at the time. for Example, the church initially gave Galileo the go ahead on his theories, but the way Galileo presented his theories was in the form of a fictitious dialogue, in which it comes across as though Galileo was basically mocking the church and the Pope specifically. _This_ was the reason they condemned him, not because they saw his theories as doing anything inherently wrong or anti-christian, but because they found his presentation insulting. Also, given the horrible and disgusting things politicians and criminals get away with through loopholes in the constitution, I'd hardly be holding it up as a symbol of freedom.

Duro Atama ultimately, even though I'm Catholic I love Stryper because all they want to do is spread love. That's the kind of thing I can get behind. I'd rather people experience the love of christ in some other form rather than never. I hope they see the way some day, but ultimately who am I to judge when I myself am so imperfect in my own faith? I'd rather watch and make sure I myself don't stumble than try to force people down one path. I have protestant friends and colleagues, and we're fine with each other. We're both there for the same guy in the end. I just keep Philippians 1:15-18 in mind when I see other denominations. "in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in that I rejoice." Stryper's message is ultimately about goodwill towards all through the praise of Christ in an open and Unique manner that clearly means a lot to both them and their fans (myself included). And that's why it infuriates me when I see Fundamentalists call them wolves in sheep's clothing. (Ironically, being Catholic in America I can probably relate to that feeling of dejection more than most of their other fans.)

Study harder and choose better sources.

Yeah no you're so wrong here. I'm an atheist, but the Christian faith if anything has lead to the west become tempered and less warlike. It lead directly into the concept of Just War. Hell back when Christianity first started the most radical of those went into the fucking desert to mediate, and starve. Because Christianity in its truest form is not about getting into heaven or avoiding hell it is in fact about suffering on earth to suffer like Christ to become divine here. As mentioned in the script with the desert fathers they are said to be like fire in their head that merely pointing a finger it caused a fire in their heart(not literally but what they are saying is their spirit is like fire). Now this does not change the fact of some Christians in the Roman period destroying pagan temples and carving a cross in said statues head. Now onto the Dark Age issue. I actually have a degree in history to notion in the field since hell the 30s is that the dark age was a creation by one man due to the Renaissance. If there was a Dark Age which some historians think there was it was not from the fall of Rome, to the Renaissance a total of a thousand years, but due to the fall of Roman and the chaos of the various Germanic tribes invading former Roman lands, this lasted till the rise of Charlemagne when Europe stabilized due to the conquering(Clovis kind of kicked it off, but still killed and conquered he was a pretty shitty Christian one which the pope admitted as such). We call the period of Charlemagne the Carolingian Renaissance for good reason as the focus was on education reform, and the sciences. Hell Charlemagne as a king was one of the first to become literate himself during this age. That is what most historians agree on is the end of the dark age. If anything the reason the Dark age happened had nothing to do with the church, nor was it kept in it by it. The monks during that time were discovering new sciences all the time, and continued to grow, leading directly to the Renaissance hell the lost language of Rome was brought back by the fall of the Byzantine Empire by monks caste out via the Ottoman Turks. Dude I just told you a shit ton of history, now are you going to tell me a dude who has A DEGREE IN THE FIELD AND STUDIES IT OBVIOUSLY A LOT to do more research.

Agreed, I bet this was in some part being fans of Queen. Thats the only other band I can think of with harmonies like that.

STILL ARE PAL

This comment is fantastic!

As a Christian, thumbs up. Top Kek.

Christians got the biggest balls on earth

I am a Christian Conservative and I like Bathory. The Satanic crap is just teens rebelling against what was at the time the establishment and nothing more. I think any satan shit is not to be taken seriously

Quorthon even later stated that the satanic stuff was boring. It's one of those things with most black metal the young start super satanic, but if they stick in the genre they evolve lyrically a lot to something dark, but not longer satanic except for Varg who is the biggest fucking edgelord to ever edge.

I know this comment is late, but thank you for that.

EndlessVacuum lol

Especially during the 80’s.

Yeah sure buddy.

Joe Barnes yeah they always sound really good live too

Duuuude, I would kill to be you for just that night. Petra is my favorite band! I bet I woulda loved that guy. You're So lucky man!

I loved Petra, then I heard Stryper. Wow. Back to Petra, the Greg X Volz stuff was all I liked, but I liked it a lot.

that describes me too

yup

Kristian Bates Same here.

It's basically the "represntation" of being a Christian, usually found with people that are too heavenly minded they are no earthly good. I went to a christian grade-highschool that basically believed that if you did anything that would be considered "non-christian" they got upset with you. They cared more about how you looked to others, than how you actually are. They promoted going to a christian college (Pensacola I remember, so straight laced going to see a movie was banned and could lead you to expulsion). Sadly this same mindset makes it that when Christians actually go to the outside world, they get culture shocked so hard that it breaks straight through the conditioning the schools tried to place on them. The kids/young adults do not have their own ideas on their belief just what the people above them told them to have. This usually leads to two types of people, people that just double down on their faith, seeing everyone else as ungodly sinful people and repeating the cycle for the next generation, or it causes them to give up the faith that much easier. I myself though didn't agree with this and tested my faith myself, questioning what was taught and coming to my own beliefs on the subject matters. This lead me to less shock going to a secular college, and why I'm still a firm believer to this day.

EXACTLY

Why would he get shit from atheists? I'm an atheist, I think Stryper has a lot of talent and I like a good few of their songs. Being an atheist doesn't mean you take offense to someone liking something created by Christians or to Christians themselves. It simply means you reject their supernatural claims. This kind of peremptory proclamation is the reason that some atheists are militant (well, that and growing up being told you're evil and deserve eternal torture because you couldn't believe what was handed to you)

Right on! 👍😎

I'm an atheist and I love Stryper...

I'm an atheist but that's not why I didn't get into Stryper. They were just another hair metal band to me. Quite talented and all but I didn't listen to Warrant either. Their religion seemed as forced and campy to me as the pretend satanism other bands used and I don't recall taking them serious as christians any more than I took Kerry King to be a satanist.

Oh I know Kerry is an atheist. He's never been shy about the fact that all the evil imagery Slayer uses is merely theatrics. It sells records. I think Stryper was as good as any hair band of the day in terms of musicianship. Maybe better than the likes of Winger and Warrant. But none of that was my cup of tea, so Stryper to me was just another gimmick band and I was surprised to hear they even made albums after 1992.

Giovanni Laurenti Y E S

And NOW, Even The Devil Believes!

Two dudes? I thought it was just Brian Welch. Who is the other one?

Kerry Livgren from Kansas is also a Christian. One or two of the other guys in Kansas are also Christians - John Elephante comes to mind; but there was someone else, too.

I think what Stryper accomplished back then was proof, despite the Christian label, they could still be successful. Plus there were lots of Christian kids back then that liked heavy metal. Heavy Metal was branded devils music by everyone. But the generation that grew up with rock liked this style. I remember kids that were not Christian that liked Stryper. If you were a rocker and the band rocked that is what mattered. I remember thinking most of rock was an act. I didn't think many of them were Satanists. Of course being older now being around the entertainment industry, I know a little different. But when you were kid it all seemed so cool. Better than much of the crap we have out today.

Also all of black Sabbath

Completely agree, Mr. Rick Valentino. I was one of those kids. Personally, I'm thankful Stryper and others that followed gave me something to listen to.

Ian Phoenix you and me bro, rageagolic is just so entertainingly delightfull

I was there in Tacoma. I was 15. Took the bus all the way from Ballard. Awesome concert

Ah, I was born in 75 myself and went to clash of the titans in 91 at alpine valley in Wisconsin. Good times, brother. Good times.

You're metal?😂 Where's the fundamentals? Priest,Maiden,Sabbath....

I had some vague memories from my very early childhood of the Rez Band and for some reason did a search for their records a couple of years ago and I was completely mind blown. The Rez Band were the BEST Christian 'Metal or Rock' band ever. Songs like 'The Chair' were just incredible. The songwriting and vocals were unbelievable. Im still discovering their songs. Great stuff.