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Hopefully, as many of you as possible were able to see the 30th Anniversary Tour of To Hell with the Devil<\/span>, as it was something special. The band was on and delivered all the high quality double leads, harmony vocals and sing-along moments that Stryper fans have come to expect. All the reports we\u2019ve heard from all over the country here at Heaven\u2019s Metal Magazine<\/span> have been extremely positive.<\/p>\n

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We wanted the real truth, though, so we contacted frontman Michael Sweet and asked him. \u201cIt\u2019s going terrible,\u201d he said. \u201cAbsolutely terrible.\u201d He laughs and then pivots. \u201cNo, it\u2019s going good, man. We\u2019re wearing the old outfits. That\u2019s probably the toughest part, because they\u2019re just uncomfortable. They\u2019re hot, layered, very stiff and uncomfortable. But it\u2019s fun. People like to see \u2018em and we enjoy going out there and hearing the response. It takes us back to \u201986 all over again. The set\u2019s gotten really good. We were running a video \u2013 a little bit of a documentary, showing footage that\u2019s never been seen, talking about the album, playing songs we haven\u2019t played for 30 years and it\u2019s really cool, man. We\u2019re really enjoying it and the response has been great.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe do the album from start to finish in sequence, so we do everything, \u2018Boom, boom, boom!\u2019 just like if you were listening to it. Obviously, we\u2019re doing songs we haven\u2019t played in a long time, like \u2018Holding On,\u2019 \u2018All of Me\u2019 and \u2018Rockin\u2019 the World.\u2019 Then we take a little bit of a break, a breather, for four or five minutes. We change some clothes, come back out and then do a bunch of other songs \u2013 some old songs, some recent songs. We do songs like, \u2018Makes Me Wanna Sing,\u2019 \u2018Soldiers Under Command,\u2019 newer songs being \u2018Yahweh,\u2019 \u2018King of Kings,\u2019 \u2018God\u2019 and \u2018Revelation.\u2019 There\u2019s a whole bunch of songs. It winds up being about an hour and 45-minute set. The reaction has been great. I haven\u2019t seen any complaints yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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These full album tours are just a great idea and Stryper found a way to make it a really special moment for everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI think we all started thinking about it a few years back,\u201d Sweet said. \u201cThe 30-year anniversary of \u2018To Hell<\/span>\u2019 was coming and we knew that it was a special one and we were going to have to celebrate it in a special way. It just kind of progressed from there. We started talking to our manager, Dave Rose, about it at dinner not long ago and the rest is history. We just started piecing it together and working on it. It\u2019s been a lot of work trying to put it together and getting the costumes and whatever we didn\u2019t have made and\/or fitted. Putting together whatever production we have. The video screen and the video itself. Rehearsing, of course. Just doing all the stuff that goes into a tour, but this one took a little bit more.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt took a little bit more out of all of us, but it was worth it. Now that we\u2019re in a groove and we\u2019re out there playing night after night, it just feels like any other tour in the sense that we go up on stage and we know what we\u2019re supposed to do and there\u2019s a flow and a continuity to it and it just happens. It\u2019s kind of easy now, like riding a bike.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thirty years is a long time, but it sure is fun to look back. The crowds watching the video cheer at various times during the opening video introduction. Seeing MTV VJ\u2019s announce Stryper in the top spot of the Dial MTV segments got a lot of applause and knowing grins from those old enough to remember.<\/p>\n

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Looking back, everyone in the band knows it was a special time, but they were also re-cognizant of that while it was happening \u2013 to an extent.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs we got deeper and deeper into it,\u201d explains Sweet, \u201conce the songs were written and chosen and we started recording the tracks themselves, we all started realizing slowly but surely how special it was. By the time we were listening to the mixes in cars or home stereos or what have you, that\u2019s when we really came to the realization that it was a special album and it was going to do something really cool on a big level. And it did!<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen it came out, it went through the roof, man. I think we were all expecting it to a degree, but not quite at the level it had gone through the roof at. The label was blown away, the band was blown away, everyone involved was just kind of sitting there in shock to a degree, thinking, \u2018Gosh, what just happened?!\u2019 It was really cool to be a part of that. I\u2019ve told the story countless times. It really did take us from theaters into arenas in just a few months. It was incredible to be out on the road and go from theaters to arenas and experience that. We were kids. We were 23, 24, 25 years old. Chins on the floor, blown away.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Just as this celebration tour was kicking off, there were rumors and a statement was released that said the band was going to be taking a hiatus of sorts at the conclusion of the tour. That was a bit of unexpected drama for the fans, but not entirely out of the norm for a group of artists in the entertainment field.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re gonna take a break,\u201d explains Sweet. \u201cWe had to be very careful of what we said and how we said it. We wanted to be. We didn\u2019t wanna give details that people don\u2019t really need to know about, but what was happening is some rumors were starting to circle around and they were coming back to us, so that\u2019s why we were forced to give a statement and let people know that Tim, basically, has made some decisions in his life that really have affected the band. It\u2019s not by our doing. It\u2019s not by our choice, meaning Robert\u2019s, Oz\u2019s or mine. It\u2019s forced us to really re-evaluate where we stand as a band and what we\u2019re going to continuing doing as a band. I think if there\u2019s anything else that people wanna know, the best thing to do is to talk to Tim and ask him what\u2019s going on. I think that\u2019s the best way to handle it. We are going to take a break. How long? I don\u2019t know. Hopefully, not for very long. And how we\u2019re going to continue and with who, I don\u2019t know, either. I really can\u2019t tell ya. It might be with this lineup; it might not be. It remains to be seen. There\u2019s too many variables right now and things that we just don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Earlier statements had indicated that a new Stryper album would be recorded in early 2017, but this is now on hold, too. \u201cI\u2019m going to go record a new Sweet\/Lynch album, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Some people have speculated that it\u2019s all the solo music that Michael Sweet has been doing that\u2019s the cause of this upcoming break. Just the hint of that seems to set him off. \u201cI just love reading the comments from the ignorant, uneducated people that don\u2019t even have a clue as to what\u2019s going on. Most of the time they put it on me, saying, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s because he\u2019s doing solo stuff\u2019 and \u2018Tim always gets thrown under the bus. It\u2019s Tim again. Oh, Michael, Michael, Michael!\u2019 I\u2019m just thinking, \u2018Wow! You don\u2019t even have a clue.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s the beautiful thing about the internet,\u201d he says tongue-firmly-planted-in-cheek, \u201cpeople can flap their mouths when they have no facts. Everybody has an opinion and a say. It\u2019s unfortunate, because none of it\u2019s true. This has nothing to do with my solo career. It has nothing to do with Sweet & Lynch. It has nothing to do with Michael Sweet doing what he wants to do \u2013 nothing. But it has everything to do with, as I said, the decision and choices that Tim has made that has forced the band to step back and say, \u2018Okay, what are we doing?\u2019 Nothing to do with Michael Sweet at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Every party has its awkward moment, I guess. But at least it\u2019s way overshadowed by a great show \u2013 with both killer nostalgia and exciting, heavy new tunes. Here\u2019s hoping they figure out a way to get Stryper rolling again after this upcoming break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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