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 ...

Tickets will go on sale Friday, April 10, on the Civic Center’s website.

Satan is unequivocally the most metal character in history. During the 1980s, bands embracing his evil imagery spurred the Satanic Panic, when straitlaced parents were terrified that their children ...

In the early 1980s, Michael Sweet formed a band called Roxx Regime with older brother Robert, eventually changing the name to Stryper. Their full-length debut, 1985’s Soldiers Under Command, became ...