The Petra Zone

AI "demixing" is becoming more accessible all the time. For instance, there's the website moises.ai where you can upload any music file you want, and AI algorithms will separate vocals and instruments into separate tracks. The results aren't perfect, certainly not as clean as the work Abby Road can ...

There was another Stryper album released this year that flew under my radar until recently: To Hell With The Amps . It's an acoustic cover album that is more traditional than Petra's (unfairly) maligned Double Take , where the songs are just straightforward acoustic covers. Many of the them work qui...

I actually like Double Take. I appreciate the new arrangements and consider it one of the better acoustic cover albums, but I recognize that this is not a popular opinion among Petra fans.

A remaster? Why? The original CD sounds fantastic.

Fil just posted a follow-up video in response to Ken's: https://youtu.be/FhM-wrP9PpQ?si=vcOYeG3y7VQbiZoY He doesn't have much new to say about Ken's lip syncing which was definitively covered in the first two videos, but he does point out that Ken has been deleting comments and videos from his own c...

Ken responded in a video posted to his own channel, and all he did was deny, deny, deny without directly addressing any of the evidence proving he lip synced. He then admitted that he does use backing tracks in concert but then claims that it's okay because everybody does it. You can see him in all ...

I've been an admirer of Ken Tamplin for quite a long time and used to regard him as one of the few real-deal, no BS vocal coaches on YouTube, where "The proof is in the singing," as he always likes to say. Well, recently, a number of definitive analyses of his "live" performances have been making th...

New album is pretty good. Not quite as strong as their last several releases, and there aren't really any standout songs, but it's guaranteed to please any fans of Stryper's music. And from what I've seen of their touring videos on YouTube, they have the integrity to play and sing everything 100% li...

Simplest answer: It's because the existence of God is the best explanation for the reality we see around us. The very existence of the universe is inexplicable without an ultimate being to set things in motion. The concept of morality, of right and wrong, of good and evil, make no sense unless there...

I think the fact that this is ironically the most active thread on the forum in months serves as an adequate answer to the question.

Can you have Whitecross without Scott Wenzel? His voice is such a distinctive part of their sound. Edit: So I've listened to the album, and while it's a good hard rock/metal album, musically it sounds more like the band Civil War than it does Whitecross with the new lead singer even sounding strikin...

Stryper is an amazing band. Where most Christian acts from their era are mostly washed up (I sadly include Petra in that category), Stryper continues to release new albums and actively tour. And they're producing some of the best music of their career! Their next album, When We Were Kings , is set t...

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r1DBBQxlRQ[/youtube] I don't get how to make this just be a video, but it's not my fault, its the website software. Anyway, a fun peek in at the Petra show in Holland, Michigan today. For whatever reason, you need to use the "youtube2" tag, like this: https...

Yes, he wanted them to do another album like Revival , which was his favorite musically and because he was involved with the recording process from the initial temp tracks to the final mix. It's just too bad his hard work was buried under one of the most overproduced mixes in music history. A shame,...

"Creed" needs the bridge and the guitar solo. The song just doesn't flow right without it.