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 ...

Earlier this week, bassist Tim Gaines revealed he was no longer in Stryper. He has served as the band's only bassist throughout their career, save between 2005 and 2009 when the position was held down ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stryper (Credit: Alex Solca Photography) Stryper at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on January 3, 1987 was my first concert.

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 ...

Plus, Yolanda Adams returns to the Top Gospel Albums top 10. By Jim Asker Veteran Christian hard rock group Stryper adds its 13th top 10 on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart as When We Were Kings ...

Decades before he looked over primary poll results and sighed "to hell with Donald Trump," Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz may have performed "To Hell With the Devil" as the frontman for ...

With 1986's To Hell With the Devil, Los Angeles' Stryper crossed over into the mainstream to become one of the first widely recognized and openly Christian heavy metal bands. Formed by siblings ...

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 ...

See more with Michael Sweet in this week’s issue of the Houston Press. In the 1980s, contemporary Christian music was on the cusp of accepting a nice little jolt of electricity for headbangers ...

The band certainly marched to their own drummer, emerging at a time when the opposing forces of hedonistic, glammy hard rock and gritty, socially conscious thrash metal were butting heads on the ...