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”, ...

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 that metal has always had a lot of lyrics against Christ, which makes ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — Onstage with only a guitar, microphone and pedal board, Haela Hunt-Hendrix can sound angelic one moment and feral the next. Her solo set, drawing from songs from across her band ...

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 ...