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artist: Agent Steel
title: Unstoppable Force
year: 1987
genre: Thrash Metal
type: Album
label: Legacy Recordings
language: English
rel. date: 1987-02-27
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Full Stereo
runtime: 00:38:52
size: 97.78 MB
rip date: 2025-11-23
source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/10037188
tracklist:
1. Unstoppable Force 3:52
2. Never Surrender 3:50
3. Indestructive 3:28
4. Chosen to Stay 4:44
5. Still Searchin' 4:10
6. Rager 4:05
7. The Day at Guyana 6:35
8. Nothin' Left 4:20
9. Traveler 3:48
release notes:
Formed in Los Angeles in 1984, Agent Steel combined speed with John
Cyriis' outstanding vocal skills and a subject matter that revolved
around UFOs and conspiracy theories. Cyriis had briefly been a member of
Megadeth before forming Agent Steel.
After releasing the classic albums 'Skeptics Apocalypse' in 1985 and
'Unstoppable Force' in 1987, the band split in 1988 but reunited in 2021
with Cyriis for 'No Other Godz Before Me'.
After a vicious speed metal attack on Agent Steel's debut album
"Skeptics Apocalypse" (1985), John Cyriis (v.), Juan Garcia (g.), Bernie
Versailles (g.), Mike Zaputil (b.) and Chuck Profus (dr.) slowed things
down a little bit on their sophomore release "Unstoppable Force" two
years later, without losing a single bit of heaviness. Most strinking
was the softer and cleaner vocal style by John Cyriis. If it had been up
to Cyriis, the vocals on "Unstoppable Force" would have sounded even
more different, as guitarist Juan Garcia later recalled in an interview
with metal magazine metal-rules.com: "We were recording the "Unstoppable
Force" record at Morissound studios in Tampa and on an off day, I went
to a record store and bought the new Metallica "Master Of Puppets" which
I thought was the best thing I had ever heard at the time. Cyriis picked
up the "Rage for Order" record by Queensryche and got totally influenced
by Geoff Tate to the point that he wanted to start all over on the vocal
tracks and sound exactly like Geoff Tate. And at this time we were half
way done with the vocals! Combat records freaked out and sent a
representative down to Morrisound to keep an eye on John because he was
starting to powerplay all kinds of scenarios arisen! I had to convince
Cyriis to keep an aggressive approach vocally somewhat. Although I must
admit John did a fantastic job with the vocals on the album."
Due to permanent conflicts within the band, Agent Steel disbanded
shortly after the release of "Unstoppable Force". Drummer Chuck Profus
later told German Rock Hard Magazine his view: "The ending of Agent
Steel was really unfortunate. John Cyriis and I moved to Florida in
1987. Juan Garcia, Bernie Versailles and Mike Zaputil were really fed up
with John and moving in general and stayed at the West Coast. John and I
tried to keep going with several different line-ups, after the end of
Agent Steel under the names of Malfeitor and Pontius Prophet. But John
was really off his rocker and had huge personal problems. Things went
bad on the management and label side, so we eventually left it be."
Guitarist Bernie Versaille confirmed this to metal-rules.com: "Juan,
Mike, and I were not fired. We stayed in L.A. because we thought it was
a bad decision to relocate to Florida. Knowing Cyriis, we felt it was
just another rash decision on his part. His indecisiveness made us
question his logic. By leaving the majority of his band, he in turn
fired himself from the real Agent Steel."
Consequently, the "Unstoppable Force" line-up reformed the band in 1998
without John Cyriis, now with Bruce Hall on vocals, and went on to
release three critically acclaimed yet commercially not overly
successful albums ("Omega Conspiracy" 1999, "Order of the Illuminati"
2003 and "Alienigma" 2007). The years were more or less overshadowed by
legal disputes with Cyriis over the band name that paradoxically mounted
in Cyriis' comeback as Agent Steel vocalist after 23 years in 2010. This
collaboration, that spawned no new release, was once more malfunctioning
and came to a quick end with a show at Sweden Rock 2011 festival after
several shameful no-shows by Cyriis. The rest of the band chose to
continue playing Agent Steel sets with changing singers (such as Steel
Prophet frontman Rick Mythiasin or Jack of all trades James Rivera)
under the name "Masters of Metal" (their debut album "From Worlds
Beyond", now with guitarist Versailles on vocals, was released in
September 2015), while Cyriis did the same, for example at Headbangers
Open Air 2011, under the S.E.T.I. banner.