Artist: Stryper Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock
Discography:
Reborn Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
7 Weeks: Live In America 2003 Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
7: The Best Of Stryper Year: 2003
Tracks: 18
Live In Seoul, Korea (03-25-1989) Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Tokyo 1989: Burning Flame Live (In God We Trust Tour) Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
To Hell With The Devil Year: 1991
Tracks: 11
Against The Law Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
In God We Trust Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
Soldiers Under Command Year: 1985
Tracks: 10
The Yellow and Black Attack! Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Heavy alloy has been associated with ol' Beelzebub ever since its origination, just there own been a few acts wHO took the opposite route and put their Christian beliefs in unvoiced rocking songs, such as Stryper. Formed in Orange County CA in 1983, the group was originally known as Roxx Regime, and consisted of singer/guitarist/main songster Michael Sweet, drummer Robert Sweet, lead guitarist Oz Fox, and bassist Timothy Gaines. It wasn't until the group changed their call to Stryper (which stood for "Salvation Through Redemption Yielding Peace Encouragement and Righteousness") that things actually began taking off for the quadruple. Specializing in the melodic Van Halen/Def Leppard style (with heart-wrenching mightiness ballads tossed in), polished in all black-and-yellow outfits, and spreading their religious message regular farther by tossing bibles out into the crowd at their shows, Stryper was gestural by the Enigma label in 1984. The same year, the group's debut recording, a six-track mini record album highborn
The Yellow & Black Attack, was issued. The album created a buzz for the grouping among metalheads, which was only heightened with the firing of their first-class honours degree uncut album, 1985's
Soldiers Under Command. The first gear Stryper passing to crack up the Billboard charts, its success resulted in the re-release of
The Yellow & Black Attack (which included an spear carrier deuce tracks and new nontextual matter) in 1986. Later the same year, Stryper issued their soph full-length,
To Hell with the Devil, which many consider to be the group's finest hour. Turning out to be the highest-charting album of their career (hardly missing the Top 30), the platinum-certified record album benefited by MTVs repeated airings of the videos for "Career on You" and the saccharine ballad "Honestly" (the latter of which indisposed at number 23 on the U.S. singles charts). Despite possessing a different message than their peers, Stryper's music by this point fit in perfectly with the other popular pop/hair metal bands of the day (Bon Jovi, White Lion, Dokken, etc.).Yet just as it appeared that Stryper could peradventure break through on a massive plate, such new metallic element styles as lick (Metallica) and more stripped rock 'n' roll (Guns N' Roses) began to usurp Stryper's pop-metal audience. As a consequence, Stryper's next release, 1988's
In God We Trust, failed to spread out their following, nor did it live up to anticipate of its predecessor (although it did manage to garner gold credentials). Sensing this, the grouping adopted a harder-edged reasoned and look for 1990's
Against the Law, and even covered the Earth, Wind & Fire blue funk graeco-Roman, "Lustrous Star." Neither managed to crossbreed over to the pinnacle of the charts.A greatest-hits set,
Can't Stop the Rock, followed in 1991, merely with Nirvana precisely around to ring the death knell for pop-metal bands, Michael Sweet distinct to leave the chemical group for a solo life history. Surprisingly, the leftover members of Stryper opted to dribble on as a three-piece (with Fox handling principal vocal duties), and continued to turn for a spell. The Michael Sweet-less variation didn't utmost farsighted however, as Stryper formally called it quits in 1992. In the wake of their stock split, its members remained meddling. Michael Sweet's solo calling never scaled the same high as Stryper's, although solo releases give appeared on a reasonably regular fundament, with 1994's
Michael Sweet, 1995's
Literal, and 2001's
Truth. Robert Sweet issued a solo recording, Love Trash, in addition to studio work, patch Fox and Gaines formed a new chemical group, Sin Dizzy, world Health Organization issued a stone opera (concerning the excruciation of Jesus Christ), coroneted
He's Not Dead. During the intervening geezerhood, a large core of devoted fans remained entire, resulting in all of Stryper's albums beingness reissued by Hollywood Records. In 1999, Sin Dizzy played a show with Michael Sweet, which concluded in an offhanded jam session of old Stryper tunes -- resulting in reunion rumors. And with a heightened nostalgic interestingness regarding '80s earned run average metallic element bands come the early 21st century, Stryper in agreement to periodically reunify for a "Stryper Expo," which has since turned into an annual event. Stryper's second greatest-hits' appeal,
7: The Best of Stryper, followed in 2003, and included a mate of new tunes recorded especially for the assembling, "Something" and "For You."
