Michael Sweet, the lead singer of 1980s Christian metal band Stryper, revealed he has been diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer and is asking for prayers as he prepares for upcoming surgery. Sweet ...

Stryper frontman Michael Sweet has revealed that he’s been diagnosed with cancer. In a post shared to Facebook, the 62 year-old singer noted that a “biopsy that was performed on 11/17 (a nodule in my ...

Singer Michael Sweet talks with Rick Damigella about the Christian metal band’s first full length album of Christmas music. Many soldiers at Army commands in SA likely moving to Fort Bragg Alarm grows ...

Tis the season for being jolly and holly and all that good shit, and while you may not yet be in the holiday spirit, I’ll tell you some people who definitely are—Stryper. You may not have guessed how ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - Christian metal band STRYPER is coming to perform at the Devon this summer. The group has been performing for four decades. The marked their 40th anniversary tour in fall of ...

Honestly, this could be the case. I am not and have never been a follower of the alleged man upstairs, but it does make sense that people in all genres of music might be. Even the heavy stuff has room ...

Over the past 30 years, Steve Perry has resisted practically all overtures to perform Journey classics onstage, whether as part of a solo tour or a reunion with the band. But on very select occasions, ...

Stryper is back with “When We Were Kings,” a solid album with big riffs and an even bigger message. The band’s 12th album, which dropped in September, is just another step in the long Stryper journey.

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 ...

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 ...