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To Hell with the Devil is the third studio album by the Christian metal band Stryper, released in 1986. It was the first Christian metal album to achieve platinum status, selling over one million copies. It remained the best-selling Christian metal album until P.O.D.'s Satellite in 2001.
The album was listed at No. 88 in the 2001 book, CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music. The album was the only heavy metal album on the list. Ian Christe, author of the heavy metal history book Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal (2003), mentions To Hell with the Devil in his book as one of the landmarks of the glam metal movement.
Throughout 1987, both music videos for "Free" and "Honestly" ranked No. 1 on Dial MTV, the daily MTV list of most requested videos. The first single/video video for "Calling on You" also reached No. 2 on the show. "Honestly" was the biggest single from the record peaking at #23 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart.
The original artwork depicted four long haired angels (closely resembling the band members) throwing the devil into a fiery pit. The cover was then changed on later pressings to a basic black cover with the Stryper logo and the album title in the center.
According to Michael Sweet's autobiography, as the band started to record the album, Michael felt Tim Gaines wasn't the right bassist for the record. He was replaced by bassist Matt Hurich, who eventually ended up not working out. So session bassist Brad Cobb took Gaines' place while recording the album. However, before the tour began, Sweet asked Gaines to rejoin as he felt it wasn't right performing as "Stryper" without him.
In 2010, HM Magazine listed To Hell with the Devil No. 3 on its Top 100 Christian Rock Albums of All Time list stating that "when this album broke, it went multi-platinum, forever raising the ceiling of what heavy Christian music could do." Heaven's Metal fanzine ranked it No. 6 on its Top 100 Christian metal albums of all-time list.
Track listing
Personnel
Stryper
Michael Sweet – lead vocals, backing vocals, lead guitars, acoustic guitar, arrangements
Oz Fox – guitars, backing vocals
Robert Sweet – drums
Additional musicians
John Van Tongeren – keyboards
Brad Cobb – bass guitar
Production
Oz Fox – producer
Michael Sweet – producer
Robert Sweet – producer, cover concept
Stephan Galfas – producer, arrangements, engineer
Dan Nebanzal – engineer
Gary Myerberg – technical assistant
Eddy Schreyer – mastering at Capitol Mastering (Hollywood, California)
Brian Ayuso – art direction, design
Ray Brown – costume design
Annamaria DiSanto – photography
Anna Revenge – photography
Neil Zlozower – photography
Suzan Carson – photography assistant
Kyle Rae Sweet – make-up artist
Janice Sweet – management
Singles
"Free"/"Calling on You" - released February 10, 1987 (Enigma Records 75001)
"Honestly"/"Sing-Along Song" - released August 10, 1987 (Enigma 75009)
Videos
"Calling On You"
"Free"
"Honestly"
"All of Me" (on the documentary Stryper: In the Beginning')
Charts
Certifications
References
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- Bojana Novakovic
- Slipknot
- Bring Me the Horizon
- Metal kristen
- Setan
- There is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There is A Heaven Let's Keep It A Secret.
- Kevin Costner
- To Hell with the Devil
- To Hell with the Devil (film)
- Stryper
- Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
- Devil
- Devil in the arts and popular culture
- The Judge from Hell
- Tim Gaines
- Stryper discography
- Classification of demons
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