Stryper have drawn their share of criticism over the decades, but it's usually from the non-Christian faction of metal fans. After singer Michael Sweet and bassist Perry Richardson enjoyed a couple ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We were very different in the sense that we were a rock band on the Hollywood scene that became Christians," he said. "We weren't Christians that became a rock band." By Glenn Peoples Nearly four ...

Following a hiatus due to bass player Tim Gaines' divorce, Christian metal band Stryper is going through a divorce of its own, parting ways with Gaines after a year of bad blood led to "toxic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...