Stryper’s ‘To Hell With The Devil‘ has beaten Mötley Crüe’s ‘Shout At The Devil‘ in a battle of best albums.
A user on SiriusXM Hair Nation’s Facebook group held a poll to see which album fans preferred, and many chose the Stryper album. After seeing the results, Sweet took to Instagram to share his thoughts on the outcome. “Saw this on the Hair Nation SiriusXM FB page and was very surprised to see Stryper with so many votes! Mind blown,” he wrote. “I did not expect that but I’m thrilled and humbled to see how many people out there love ‘THWTD.'”
In 2019, Mötley Crüe seemed to confirm they would be going on tour again, but the official tour package with Def Leppard and Poison had not yet been confirmed by any of the bands. Reports suggested the tour could cost $3,250,000, and rumors spread that Stryper might join the lineup.
A post on Sweet’s Facebook page explained why Stryper would be a good fit for the tour: 4 reasons Stryper is the most logical choice to be the 1st of 4 on the Motley Crue tour: 1. Because Motley Crue has never done things ‘by the book.’ They’ve always surprised people, and adding Stryper to the tour would definitely raise some eyebrows. 2. Musically it works. It just does. I look at our audiences every night and see Motley Crue and Def Leppard & Poison T-shirts. Whether we all want to admit it or not, we have the same fan bases for the most part. Albeit their fan base is much larger than ours, but musically I think it would work perfectly. Stryper is at the top of our game musically right now. And I think the entire tour will be performing at its best.”
“3. The encore could be an epic mash-up of ‘Shout at the Devil’ and ‘To Hell with the Devil,'” he continued. “4. More than ever in the history of music we need someone to make a bold statement that says ‘No matter how different we may seem, as human beings we’re really all the same.’ This is Motley Crue’s chance to unite a very divided world right now. For them to say ‘Yeah, we may (or may not) believe the same thing as Stryper, but we’re all human beings and we should all get along with one another, no matter what we believe.'”
However, instead of Stryper, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts joined the tour during its 2022 run. The next year, Alice Cooper joined the lineup for the next round of the tour.
