Creating The Christian Metal Genre: Michael Sweet Interview

In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Christian heavy metal legend, Michael Sweet. Michael Sweet is the lead singer/guitar player for the band Stryper. Stryper has produced a new album titled Even The Devil Believes available wherever you get music. Kyle and Ethan find out about Stryper’s origins, throwing Bible’s into the audience, and where that van with a machine gun came from. 

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Topics Discussed

Christian Metal

Stryper color’s origin

Response to criticism

Why Stryper isn’t cool 

Stryper’s accomplishments 

Kyle’s discovery of Stryper

Stryper making a comeback

Being spat on

Oz and Michael’s style of guitar playing 

Album recording tricks for Stryper

Even The Devil Believes 

Subscriber Portion 

Newsboys

Touring with Boston

Lessons in falsetto

Stryper playing a part of the metal community

Driving around with a machine gun 

Babylon Bee Song

10 questions

Carmen meeting