Stryper's Michael Sweet Fights Cancer, Releases New Album

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Michael Sween from Striper dropped some heavy news last fall.

He got diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer, the most common kind.

It showed up after a biopsy on a nodule in his right thyroid lobe,

and Docs decided on active surveillance instead of jumping straight to full.

Surgery. They removed part of his thyroid to deal with the cancer,

cutting through some muscles in the process. The nodules small, self-contained, and healthy tissue,

and right now they see watching it as safer than more invasive moves.

That surgery hit his singing voice hard at first. It feels weird,

like pressure on his throat even though his vocal nerve came through untouched.

Thanks to a top specialist in Boston. Fast forward, he's back in the studio strong.

Striper put out their Christmas album, The Greatest Gift of All,

in November 2025, and they're all original when we were kings dropped in.

September 2024. His latest solo joint, The Master Plan Superpersonal and Faith Field,

landed April 3rd, 2026 via Frontier's Music.

Sweet's pushing forward Ultra Soundcheck coming in June to see what's next.