Well, well, well... The Jesus loves you boys are back in action. It's been almost fifteen years since their last studio release - 1990's Against The Law - and it seems that every single 80's band now has the possibility to reform, promote and release any kind of music they can record, and label it as brilliant Rock or supreme Metal music. Thanks to the music industry and the Internet, the much-anticipated (as THEY said...) return of the 'Soldiers under command' results in the currently featured Reborn album.
Stryper may be the band Dave I Am The Truth Mustaine would consider sharing the stage with these days, but it's a fact that this U.S. quartet delivered a good doze of Christian Rock/Metal music in the 80's. Albums like Soldiers Under Command (1985) and To Hell With The Devil (1986) did make a good impression on a Heavy market filled - till then - with endless dozes of 'mean-evil' lyrics. I'd rather suggest Barren Cross and Saint as far more better Christian Metal bands back then but Styper did feature the bonus of presenting their music via the Enigma label, gaining great album production(s), better promotion and multiple offers for touring all over the world.
Now, fifteen years later and with 3 out of 4 members of the original lineup still present - Tracy Ferrie replacing Tim Gaines on the bass - I have no other option but to split this review into three parts - the two of them being rather tiny:

1. For the 80's Stryper fan: do not ever buy this album. It semi-sucks.
2. For the non-Stryper-aware fan: do not buy this album (at first). Just try the two albums mentioned in this review's second paragraph. If you love 'em or hate 'em, follow category a. If you find something interesting, follow category c.
3. For the general Hard/Heavy follower: Reborn is by far the most irrelevant album to Stryper's discography. I'd like to make 2-3 remarks better suiting category a, so all I can say is that this album features lots of naive modern Rock melodies, accompanied by various Nu-influenced guitar riffs/sounds whereas Robert Sweet's performance is impressive and the vocal chords of his brother, Michael, are preserved at a great level, even if these tunes are - mostly - nothing special. Not to mention boring... Same spare riffs here and there and a new version of 1988's In God We Trust can't make the slightest difference in an album I'm still trying to understand the meaning of its release/existence.

'Nuff said. Judge for yourselves - I have all previous five Stryper studio albums in my collection and there's NO WAY I will add this one. Not in this world.