Creating The Christian Metal Genre: Michael Sweet Interview
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Christian heavy metal legend, Michael Sweet. Michael Sweet is the lead singer/guitar player for the band Stryper. Stryper has produced a new album titled Even The Devil Believes available wherever you get music. Kyle and Ethan find out about Stryper’s origins, throwing Bible’s into the audience, and where that van with a machine gun came from.
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Topics Discussed
Christian Metal
Stryper color’s origin
Response to criticism
Why Stryper isn’t cool
Stryper’s accomplishments
Kyle’s discovery of Stryper
Stryper making a comeback
Being spat on
Oz and Michael’s style of guitar playing
Album recording tricks for Stryper
Even The Devil Believes
Subscriber Portion
Newsboys
Touring with Boston
Lessons in falsetto
Stryper playing a part of the metal community
Driving around with a machine gun
Babylon Bee Song
10 questions
Carmen meeting
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Real People Real Interviews |
| 0:04.0 | I just have to say that I object |
| 0:07.0 | Strain you as late to your use of the word Galerius. |
| 0:10.0 | Hard-hitting questions. |
| 0:12.0 | What do you think about feminism? |
| 0:14.0 | Do you like it? |
| 0:15.0 | Taking you to the cutting edge of truth. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, well last Jedi is one of the worst movies ever made |
| 0:21.0 | and it was very clear that Ryan Johnson doesn't like Star Wars. |
| 0:25.0 | Kyle pulls no punches. |
| 0:27.0 | I want to ask how you're able to sleep at night. |
| 0:30.0 | Ethan brings bone-shattering common sense from the top rope. |
| 0:35.0 | If I may, how double dare you? |
| 0:38.0 | This is the Babylon B Interview Show. |
| 0:44.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Babylon B Interview Show. |
| 0:47.0 | Kyle, Ethan, we are the hosts of the Babylon B Interview Show |
| 0:51.0 | and today we're talking to Michael Sweet, uh, of Striper. |
| 0:55.0 | I can taste that name of my tongue. |
| 0:57.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:58.0 | He's not the owner of a candy company, |
| 1:00.0 | but rather the front man for Striper. |
| 1:03.0 | Striper, spell the why. |
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