In a new interview with Hudson and Aly from “The Hudson Show” on RadioU, John Cooper, the frontman and bassist for the Grammy-nominated Christian rock band SKILLET, was asked to name his favorite 1980s Christian metal band. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Oh, man. Well, I’m a huge PETRA fan. And I don’t think you’d call PETRA metal exactly — I call them rock — but PETRA is, to me, the all-time greatest Christian rock band. And so if I was gonna say my favorite Christian metal band… I was a big fan of a band called BARREN CROSS. I don’t know how many people know who BARREN CROSS was. But BARREN CROSS was sort of IRON MAIDEN-ish, and they had an amazing vocalist. And I loved BARREN CROSS.”Cooper continued: “The truth is I just loved all of it. I mean, I loved WHITECROSS. STRYPER, of course — you have to love STRYPER. Without STRYPER, there’d be no SKILLET. There’d probably be hardly any Christian metal about STRYPER. And so I love all of that stuff. It’s tough to… I was just a fan of Christian metal. And when you’re a fan of Christian music, you just kind of jump there with both feet, and then you end up loving everything. So, I don’t know. That’s my story. DELIVERANCE. DELIVERANCE was a great Christian thrash band.”
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