STRYPER News: STRYPER Frontman Defends Band's Decision To Record Covers Album

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Vocalist/guitarist Michael Sweet of Christian hard rockers STRYPER �" who recently announced plans to record an album's worth of covers of heavy metal classics �" has issued the following update:

"It seems that our decision to do a cover record has pleased many people, but has upset a small number of people as well.

"We've never been a band to go with the flow �" we've always set out to do our own thing and to do it according to how we feel led. Some agree, some disagree. It's always been this way.

"We didn't grow up in the church, we grew up...