Vocal Coach reacts to Stryper - Calling On You 

The Reign has higher vocals.

Stryper - The Way last scream is the beast!!!

And songs like God, take it to the cross and blood from above are just beyond what Michael should be able to do these days

He’s personally my favorite metal vocalist. He has a great way of balancing the metal aggression in his octave screams and he’s one of the few vocalist in any genre that has maybe gotten better with age. Plus he’s one hell of a producer, guitarist and songwriter

For a male singer being able to do that I'd have to agree with you ! 👍

You mean No "Petra', 'White Cross', Guardian, Bloodgood, or the Seventh Power either ?

@@michaelblody3053 I was around when Stryper came out and I never heard of those other bands.

Same here...my dad was a pastor!

@@michaelblody3053 Yeah! Of all of the bands listed, Petra and Whitecross were never ashamed of the name of Jesus. They didn’t have a bunch of fence-sitting songs that were hard to tell whether they were secular love songs or actual worship songs. And their leas singers both branched off and totally blew the world away with their messages! Both John Schlitt and Scott Wenzel had encouraging solo albums!

Michael Sweet is definitely one-of-kind! Not even the original lead singer from Petra (Greg X. Volz) could hit the notes Sweet did with such power!

After the lead singer of Boston committed suicide that they hired Michael Sweet to go and pay the singer for a few of their concerts and everybody who said they saw him Including Alice Cooper said they couldn't believe how much of a rain she was able to do his More Than A Feeling version of Boston song that his voice didn't go down is he with the concert went on and he said that unlike most singers who try to who try to fill those kind of songs where the voice register gets high in it's hard to reach as he did for the lead singer of Boston Michael Sweet was the only person that Alice Cooper had ever heard in concert who could hit the notes that the lead singer of Boston was able to hit and to go through the whole repertoire of of songs and the voice didn't Peter out as the concert went on. And Alice said as far as he was concerned he never he didn't know of any heavy metal singer who had the same range as Michael did or his ability to both play and to he said that that when he saw us Fox and Michael Sweet playing electric guitars off each other going between the Rhythm guitars and the lead guitars and switching back and forth as they did he said he was having trouble keeping up to who was doing which part of the song Because with most times when you have a a rhythm of good guitarist that's all he does is rhythm and then you have the other guy doing the lead or you have the other guy and then it sometimes goes back and forth but with them he said especially in most of their songs it was completely combined it and it just put back between the two so they could be playing a solo where the other one who begins a solo and then the other one but either finish it or sometimes they would they would change it up depending if they were in concert or something. Alice was very impressed. As was I hearing that.

Facts!

I saw them live at the Tulsa State Fair 1989 on the In God We Trust tour! I was a preachers kid so this was the only thing I was allowed til I got older. I loved these guys, I also loved bands like Novella, Deliverance, and Seventh Angel

Spot on! I have tickets to see them in September in Dallas,Tx. They still rock!

Is Michael Sweet the rhythm guitarist or the main? It seems Oz and Him both do solos

@@wnyrailfan9510 They both play lead.

Have you heard the last 2 new songs? Awesome stuff

@@Saintjohnzman I've heard a clip of one new song but I don't remember the name of it. You're right. It does sound awesome.

@@timclark1324 Transgression?

Heavy metal band that love striper religiously so to say and all of the band members of that band to striper was Motley Crue. And the funny thing was that lead singer of Slayer I think it was he said he said he's like whoa this is so strange so bizarre. But very cool.

It was adorable!!

How about a link if you can find the time. Thanks!

He obviously can't hit the helium notes anymore...but he still sings very well.

Agreed

I have tickets for this September!

They still do make great stuff

Christian or not, it's all about the music at the end of the day.

Too many Christian rock bands coasted on their religious credentials. Ironically, if they really loved God, they should have strived for excellence to honor Him. Stryper was not the specific subgenre of heavy metal that I preferred (I was not much into the glam stuff), but they were good musicians and performers. So I can give them credit for that.

Stryper mentioned that they love Jesus in some their songs how you didn't know they are a Christian band you have se song "the way" and "more than a man"

@@deantodd8103 their newer stuff is heavier overall, and not glam at all.

Or "Divider,'" for that matter, but they've gotten better with age, and still hold their own!

"Do Unto Others" is a fabulous track. One of Michael's best vocals I've ever heard.

I second this .great track

Still prefer 80s Stryper sound to today’s Stryper sound.

Reborn, Murder By Pride, No More Hell To Pay, Fallen, (May) God Damn Evil, Even The Devil Believes, and The Final Battle. All of these Albums capture that Classic Stryper Sound, and yet, they add to their musical repertoire. Personally, I can't believe just how well Michael Sweet's voice has held up over the past several years...or, should I say, over the past several decades! I'm just totally blown away by the fact, that he can still hit Super-High notes with relative ease, although he might not do that as much, nowadays. He's nearly 60 years old, so even he has the wisdom to be careful, as it concerns his voice. The last thing he'd need, is to do something foolish, vocally speaking, and end up blowing out his voice! He doesn't want that, and neither do we!

🤯 I didn’t know they had new stuff. I listened to them in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s.

@@VirginiaGeorge yeah they just released another really good album this past week. Michael Sweet is one of the busiest guys in the industry anymore.. He does a Stryper album about every other year, a solo album nearly every other year, he's done two albums with George Lynch, James Lorenzo (bassist for Megadeth and prior White Lion) and Brian Tichy on drums, they're working on a third album now, He's also done an album with Tracii Guns this past year, and a "supergroup" type album called, iconic, sharing guitar duties with Joel Hoekstra, Marco Mendoza (whitesnake, Twisted Sister bassist) and Tommy Aldridge (Ozzy, Whitesnake, Gary Moore etc) on drums and he's written an autobiography as well, all this within the past like 7 years. And I think he's produced all of them, he's a really good producer.

@@VirginiaGeorge On par with the classics, if not even better.

Same here! Saw em in 86 or 87 in NYC. GREAT show! Saw them again in the mid-00's in Boston and they still sounded amazing!

Same here. 1986. At 13 discovering Christian rock secretly contained one of the best bands in the world.

@@jg6693 I’ve got Weapons of our Warfare on CD and on my phone

I also saw them during the THWTD tour in FL and I still have that little Bible!

I absolutely agree with your suggestions!!

I wish people would understand being a Christian and being religious are not the same. religion is of man Not God.

@@billwren5033 Christianity is a religion, though. Regardless, “I’m not religious” is usually code for being agnostic or atheist. In my case, it’s the latter.

More Than a Man and Writings on the wall are more impressive imo

Love "Makes Me Want to Sing" so good...so good. That's awesome with your open mindedness in their music vs thier song message.

They are completely different songs

Did he join?

@@robertcronin6603 He was with Boston for like 5 years officially.

I did not know...hummmm

@@jeremiahrose4681 yea he ended up leaving to focus on Stryper more.

I did not see him when he was with Boston but I read there were several songs he would not sing because they conflicted with his beliefs.

Personally, though, I was glad to see Tim go. He was causing too many problems, according to Michael and Robert Sweet, and quite possibly Oz Fox. After Tim was ousted from Stryper, they picked up Perry Richardson, who was known for his tenure in the Band, Firehouse. According to Perry Richardson himself, he's apparently been a Christian for many years, and Stryper was absolutely thrilled to have him come into the Band. Perry Richardson is (As far as I'm concerned), the PERFECT addition to Stryper. He compliments them perfectly with his Bass playing, and with backing vocals.

Stryper just never gets old and they continue to put out new music. I'm glad they found Perry and are still together after all these years. Not many bands last as long as they have.

Perry is an awesome addition! Bands are like a family...not everyone gets along all the time. It was time to move on.

So unusual.

Not quite but he held up really well

Phenomenal tune!! Great call! Harnell crushes on that tune. Beautiful song!

Yes that whole album is so great! Sublime guitar playing by Ronni as well. My favorite song is "Forever Shine On".

Forever Shine on. Yes. my fave too! Will see harnell next weekend at M3!

or Everyone's A Star

Ken Tamplin He is another Christian vocalist who shines, and probably the one who best maintains his voice to this day. Not for nothing does he have a youtube channel where he teaches techniques to have a better voice

check out their newest stuff.

The first time I heard Stryper, back in the 80s, the person who played it mentioned that they sounded kind of like Styx.

For his age it is still real good and yes they are putting out new stuff...def not glam rock though :)

He hits a C6 scream on In God We Trust

You need to hear their live vocals . Check their performance recorded in Korea .