AGENT STEEL

Release Year: 2021
Artist Origin: USA
Style: poignant dynamic power speed metal

after a number of band name and line-up changes, fragmented Agent Steel story finally has a new, longtime by fans waited chapter with founding member and frontman Johnny Cyriis gathering fully new crew for the recordings of their first longplay in fourteen years, where eleven cuts reconnect with the frenetic, high-frequency energy of the classic era: razor-sharp riffing, tightly coiled rhythms, and unmistakable, interstellar vocal falsetto drive this material into a realm both familiar and unsettling, yet unlike the sleek modern aggression of the previous output, here the music regains its alien paranoia and chaotic urgency with compositions that embrace asymmetry, cryptic structure, and dissonant texture, suggesting a certain return not to nostalgia, but to a deliberately unstable foundation where precision and mania wrestle within the frame of speed-inflected US metal futurism; first press British digipak version