The Petra Zone

" Hit You Where You Live " is my favorite from this album. This to me is when Petra went full bore heavy metal with a sound to me that mostly resembled something like Def Leppard . But I loved Def Leppard so the new hard-hitting sound made me an easy convert. It was here and at this time that I fina...

"Get On Your Knees and Fight Like A Man" is my favorite from this record. I bought this album on vinyl and still have it in that format in my collection...

" Shakin The House " is my favorite from this album. Problem was this was the transitional album with Schlitt, and at the time I hated it. Back then I missed the "old sound" and hoped that they would go back to it. It was the different genre. Petra, with Schlitt's AC/DC voice, started sounding like ...

Beat the System is my vote, this album almost projected Petra to mainstream - I shared it with a lot of my friends and got many of them to start listening to the band.

Not of This World runs second for me and would be amazing in it's own right, but Graverobber is the no-brainer from this album. Simply epic...

There a so many great tracks on this record, but "More Power To Ya" still grips me emotionally. Road to Zion is another great song that runs a close second. Judas Kiss was a great draw for kids in my era.

The Coloring Song is one of my favorite Petra tracks of all time...

Come and Join Us! God Gave Rock and Roll To You is better here than on the Beat The System album IMHO...

Why Should the Father Bother?

Lucas McGraw what's come over you, we're beginning to think your strange....

Hello everyone, My name's Ron and I've been a fan of Petra since about 1982. I can remember when I first heard the band. It was at a Christian summer camp for boys in Virginia during that year. I was only 11-years-old back then and the camp had a lip-synch contest for each cabin that housed about a ...