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 are ramping up to their new studio album, 'No More Hell to Pay,' and the band is ready to debut a new track here at Noisecreep. 'Legacy' finds the iconic Christian rockers in fine form. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the '80s, Stryper were decked out in spandex as the "Yellow and Black Attack" and throwing bibles into the crowd at their live shows. Like many bands of the era, the '90s were a tough decade ...

Seriously, fuck cancer. Unfortunately, less than a month after undergoing a biopsy, Styrper frontman Michael Sweet has reveal that he’s been diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. Sweet made the ...

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 ...

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 ...