{"id":1822,"date":"2014-02-06T17:33:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T23:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2014-02-04T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T23:36:09","slug":"stryper-no-more-hell-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/stryper-no-more-hell-to-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Stryper &#8211; No More Hell To Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1823\" alt=\"Stryper-NoMoreHellToPay\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2014\/02\/Stryper-NoMoreHellToPay.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2014\/02\/Stryper-NoMoreHellToPay.jpg 300w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2014\/02\/Stryper-NoMoreHellToPay-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>By now you have probably heard the hype about the new Stryper album. Maybe you are even sick of it. But don\u2019t be fooled by the hipster snobs \u2013 this album deserves the hype it is gaining. This is a darker, heavier, more mature Stryper than we heard back in the late 80s MTV heydays. The interesting thing is that they managed to go heavier without losing what made them Stryper in the first place. As much as I like <i>Against The Law<\/i>, it always seemed like they lost a bit of how they were to make that album. That was probably on purpose. I know that some fans are not happy with this album, and I get that the songs overall are a bit slower than some in the past. Of course, you do have \u201cWater Into Wine\u201d \u2013 an air guitar jam song if I ever heard one. The cover of \u201cJesus is Just Alright\u201d does stick out a bit stylistically, but I still enjoy it. \u201cNo More Hell To Pay\u201d is almost melancholy (in a good way), but still finds the band saying they will \u201crock for the Rock\u201d in a more worn-but-still-hanging-in-there kind of way. Stryper has been on a roll for the last few albums \u2013 I hope they keep that going with future releases.<\/p>\n[2013\u00a0Frontiers Records | Purchase: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stryper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">stryper.com<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you have probably heard the hype about the new Stryper album. Maybe you are even sick of it. But don\u2019t be fooled by the hipster snobs \u2013 this album deserves the hype it is gaining. This is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/stryper-no-more-hell-to-pay\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[350,24],"tags":[377,378],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-2014","category-music-review","tag-frontiers-records","tag-stryper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}