Music Critique: Air Bibles and Heavy Metal, so Stryper Was in Costa Rica · Global Voices

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It doesn't matter that this was the third time that the Christian metal group Stryper stepped on Costa Rican soil: a substantial audience celebrated the concert as if it were a first and unthinkable visit.In Peppers, Zapote, Stryper's songs united devotees and others not so pious in a repertoire of almost an hour and a half, composed of powerful choirs, fast guitar solos and a ferocious drummer.With only the interpretation of the classic In God …

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Surely every person who calls himself metal, rocker, or just ever in his life has dressed some black shirt with the slightest allusion to some band of this genre, was once branded as, at least, rare. Satanic, disturbed, crazy, violent and endlessly negative qualifiers always fall upon those who are listeners of (taking advantage of the fashion) everything that came post Black Sabbath. And although indeed many who enjoy, live, create and feel the…