Reborn

Cleaning up the office at the end of the year, making room for the onslaught of 2006 releases, this one popped up and seemed like an irresistible piñata for critical derision. STRYPER, those God-rockin' bumblebees with the lame ballads and hair from here to the Pearly Gates? Well, pass me some of that yellow-and-black striped crow, because "Reborn" is about a million times better than it has any right to be.I can't claim to be any kind of expert on the band's back catalog — I guffawed at thei...