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Michael Sweet on Stryper’s Dark Turn on ‘Against the Law’

full in bloom | December 14, 2025



full in bloom’s INSIDE THE ALBUM: Stryper ‘Against the Law’ – Interviews with Michael Sweet, Tim Gaines, Oz Fox, Robert Sweet.
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  1. @Rafael-pt7iw

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    Es un exelente albun pero perdieron su esencia y por eso no tuvo el éxito ya que Dios dejó de ser su motivo principal eso es lo que pasa cuando te alejas de Dios.

  10. @bgarch

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    I have loved Stryper many years and loved all of the albums. Against the Law had the best look and musically the best album for a long time. I'm glad spiritually they got back on track!

  11. @kotogray8335

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    I loved Against The Law. I understood as well as anyone that these guys were just human beings doing what they thought was right. They had made a great example for years but they were held to much too high of a standard that they strove for themselves. I knew it was an album to prove once and for all that they were amazing musicians and great songwriters. I hate that they gave up after their record label went under. That was the real reason that everything went south. While they did manage to reconstruct the "old" Stryper and come back in a way, Against The Law will always be the album that proved to me that they were much more than just Christian Metal. And please don't comment negatively on my comment. It is just my opinion and I'm allowed to have it…

  12. @bradbetts8075

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    Against the Law really didnt turn its back on Christianity. It still had intospective and posative Lyrics. " All for One for instance. It just asked a few questions that sometimes even Christians may ask

  14. @ScaryBerrykat

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    It wasnt the image or sound change that threw me it was that there just wasnt more than two really great songs on the album. We got used to end to end great albums and this fell far short.

  15. @Scotty-z70

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    i remember being so bummed-out when that album came out. i felt like i could no longer support Stryper. I felt like after all the years of putting up with "stryper ain't christian" now…dang, they were right.

  16. @DannyFitzpatrick-c8v

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    I was a fan from the very first cassette tape. I remember removing the back seat of my car to find loose change for the Christmas cassette. I bought Against the law. It was definitely not Stryper I there was nothing that made me upset or turned me off. I even remember telling friends to just give it another listen. But admittedly I lost touch with Stryper for the next 18 years. Other that replacing my cassettes with CDs I did buy or follow anything they did. I did buy Michael’s solo cd and kept it in my cd changer for a couple years. I wasn’t “disappointed” I just lost the connection because I thought they just weren’t a thing anymore. About 6 years ago i discovered what I had missed for the last 2 decades and now know every word and every note to everything Stryper has done again. I’ve seen them in person 3 times and I’m as die hard a fan as I ever was in the 80s. I agree that ATL is great music! It’s had Stryper on the cover but it was never Stryper to me and my friends felt betrayed. We felt much like I do now about much of Christian music. With many musicians deconstructing in their faith. I can honestly say Stryper helped shape my youth and who I became but I also have to say the stryper I know today is the best version of all. Technically the best. The strongest message yet. The boldest stand yet and I am a dedicated and passionate fan of it all. I wait with anticipation for what’s next and I don’t just listen I consume your music almost everyday. Keep it up!!! You’ll find me praying for you and following you all the way!!

  18. @joelange3774

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    Well and here we are in 2025. All that the Christian bands sung about in some of their songs. Yes worldly people Jesus is real. If you have read any revelation you can see that the Bible is becoming more of reality. We start in Europe where Muslims are changing life there. NYC voted in a Muslim governor and so now it begins. The Bible foretold this thousands of years ago. One world religion, one world government and one world currency. JESUS ROCKS AND JESUS RAPS AND HE WILL BE BACK! So get Christ insurance today because tomorrow may be too late. They even said in the 80's 90's and 2000s they will destroy America within. Yet for some reason it fell on deaf ears. The Bible is your GPS home everything else is counterfeit.

  19. @rticle15

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    Im a lifelong non-believer but I think Stryper was a good band. They wrote cool tunes and could play. I never understood why the Christian music scene didn't get on board with them. They were their biggest act.

  20. @boblob2003

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    My friends kinda dragged me to a Stryper concert back in 1985. Yeah, it was un abashedly gimmicky and cheesy… but one thing stood out- was when Michael boldly spoke to the audience and said, "Jesus Christ is not a fairy tale". I appreciate it as it helped on my journey to find Jesus. (well, His journey to find me!). Hear I am 40 years later. Thanks guys!

  26. @robharris7696

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    C'mon Mike, you're talking like you were Gene Simmons with a room full of girls swinging from the chandeliers or Ace thrashing hotel rooms while high on cocaine 🫨 I doubt you guys were behaving anywhere close to that. That was a very good album; getting rid of the black and yellow bumblebee glam look and moving away from the overtly Evangelical-esque lyrics was probably a good move if you wanted to expand your fan base and reach more people while getting trying to get radio play. Remember what was going on within Fleetwood Mac in '76/'77, and the great album that produced!

  27. @popsharrison5431

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    So, never mind that probably that album turned a lot of rockers on to Stryper and Christian rock/pop music…. Many of you angry fans need to look in the mirror and stop talkin' like you're the "church lady" or Jimmy Swaggart pacing back and forth in the pulpit waving his Bible in the air, cuz that's what some of you sound like! lyrics do not have to be overtly Christian or taken directly from Scripture to be good or positive; it's the entire message of the song that counts and the heart of the musicians. I would take albums like Against the Law or bands like Deliverance over most modern "Christian" Jesus is my girlfriend type music any day! In fact, I'm inspired to get a second copy of that album today! (also uploaded to YouTube)

  28. @popsharrison5431

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    I agree: one of their best albums in their collection! Good songs, great arrangements, very cool solos by Oz…."Lady" could have been a top 40 or 20 hit if it had gotten any air time!

  30. @ExodusHomeProject

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    You guys forsaken the call for money, sex, drugs, and rock-'n'-roll.. you are hypocrites I stopped listening to these guys after they decided to hang out with mostly Crue and be two faced…

  37. @redlabel9294

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    My 80s metal band used to play "Soldiers Under God's Command" at gigs. We weren't into Christian rock. But that tune was badass… like the Maiden, TNT, Alcatrazz, and other great 80s stuff that we were playing.

  39. @Metalheadchris

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    to be honest, it was a pretty good album but I think the issues is that the church keep busten their chops, the secular music scene also were throwing cheap shots at them. so, what gives. I don't blame them for getting of piled on so much.

    ATL is not too bad but it not stryper. to be far. every artist have their far share of stinkers and albums they often regret doing and it not just christian artists.

  40. @thetruthchannel349

    December 14, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    If ATL had been released in 1988 the sales would have been completely different. Even 1989. People forget everything that happened before & right after the internet was gifted to the public by Darpa.

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