SinDizzy is Christian metal

Christian metal

Christian metal, also known as white metal, is a form of heavy metal music usually defined by its message in a song's lyrics as well as the band's dedication to Christianity...

 band co-founded by former Stryper

Stryper

Stryper is a Christian glam metal band from Orange County, California. The group's lineup consists of Michael Sweet , Oz Fox , Tim Gaines , and Robert Sweet...

 members Oz Fox

Oz Fox

Richard Alfonso Martinez , better known by the stage name Oz Fox, is the lead guitarist of the Christian glam metal band Stryper. Martinez's high school friends called him Oz in honor of Ozzy Osbourne due to his ability to emulate the vocals of Osbourne while playing Black Sabbath covers in his...

 and Tim Gaines

Tim Gaines

Timothy Gaines is bass guitar player of the Christian metal band Stryper.-With Stryper:Being a Sunset Strip regular, Tim joined the band in 1983, and quickly rounded out the quartet's sound with his bass, background vocals and keyboard skills...

. The band was founded in the mid 1990s after Stryper had disbanded. Its members included young drummer and lead guitarist . Bass player Gaines described their sound as "a cross between [the] Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band from San Diego, California that consists of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz ....

 and Nirvana

Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...

".

SinDizzy released their debut self-produced album, He's Not Dead, in 1998. The album sold well among the Christian metal fans, especially Stryper fans. However, it did not gather any mainstream success. The band played in several festivals in the United States

United States

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. Notorious among these was a Summer Rock Festival in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

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, where former frontman of Stryper, Michael Sweet

Michael Sweet

Michael Sweet is a singer from Whittier, California, United States. Sweet is best known as co-founder, writer and frontman of the Christian glam metal band Stryper. He was also one of the two lead vocalists and one of three guitarists for Boston until August 2011.-Youth:He began his musical career...

, joined Sindizzy on stage in front of 11,000 and performed several Stryper hit songs.

Bassist Tim Gaines left the band in 2000 to continue working with his wife's musical career. Kevin Walt immediately replaced Tim as Sindizzy’s next bass player. Plans for the recording of a future album were put on hold following the reunion of Stryper in 2003. It is currently unknown if Sindizzy will continue in the future or if it has ceased to exist.

On November 28, 2008, SinDizzy re-released He's Not Dead (All Night Long) on Girder Records

Girder Records

Girder Records is a Christian Metal label started by Rex Carroll of Whitecross and Greg Hays of GirderMusic.com. Girder Records has re-issued classic releases such as the re-recording of the Whitecross "Self-Titled" album, now called Nineteen Eighty Seven. That release was followed by the first...

 with all new artwork, liner notes and more.

Members

• Oz Fox
  Oz Fox
  Richard Alfonso Martinez , better known by the stage name Oz Fox, is the lead guitarist of the Christian glam metal band Stryper. Martinez's high school friends called him Oz in honor of Ozzy Osbourne due to his ability to emulate the vocals of Osbourne while playing Black Sabbath covers in his...
  
   - guitars, lead vocals
• John Bocanegra - drums
• Bobby MacNeil - lead guitars
• Kevin Walt - bass