The best Christian metal bands can be a divisive topic to a lot of people considering the nature of the genre. It’s no secret ...

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 ...

Rising Christian metal force Ashes Awaken are set to unleash their long-awaited debut album, Rise, on February 6, 2026. The album arrives on the heels of the band’s breakout single “A Better Way”, ...

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 ...

Ya know, you can still love Jesus and love metal…apparently. And because of this, Project 86 was among the popular acts in Christian metal. They went into retirement a while ago, but a live video ...

Out with the old, in with the new. In a departure from the usual dominance of Christian music pioneers such as Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant at the annual Dove Awards, a new generation of acts ...

Hayden Smith, lead singer for the Waco band When Forever Ends, admits that coffeehouse Common Grounds, the venue for his band’s show on Saturday night, doesn’t readily spring to mind when thinking of ...

In Longview, Kirkpatricks are likely to apply tourniquets to patients at some point in their careers. For Ted Kirkpatrick, a relative of the local Kirkpatrick medical clan, Tourniquet has another ...