Agent Steel's "Unstoppable Force": a sonic fist to the face, fueled by sci-fi nightmares and Florida swamp gas. Hold on tight, metal maniacs! #vinylrecords

AGENT STEEL - Unstoppable Force 12" Vinyl LP Album

- Canadian Release

Agent Steel's "Unstoppable Force" is a relentless assault of speed metal, forged in Florida's Morrisound Studios. John Cyriis' banshee wail rides atop intricate riffs and sci-fi lyrics, defying the glam metal trends of the 80s. Raw production and controversial artwork amplify the album's rebellious spirit, solidifying Agent Steel's place as speed metal pioneers.

Album Packaging

This album "Unstoppable Force" includes the original custom inner sleeve with album details, complete lyrics of all songs by and photos.

Producers:

Dan Johnson - Producer

Dan Johnson is a highly accomplished producer and sound engineer, renowned for his significant contributions to the heavy metal music scene during the vibrant 1980s era. Read Dan Johnson's Career

Agent Steel - Producer

Steve Sinclair - Executive Producer

Steve Sinclair is a record producer and engineer widely recognized in the Heavy Metal world for his work throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. He collaborated with numerous influential bands during the peak of the genre’s rise, shaping the sound of several key releases with his bold, high-energy production style. Read his story

Sound & Recording Engineers:

Sound engineer: Randy Burns

Randy Burns – Record Producer & Sound Engineer

He captured thrash when it still sounded dangerous, not "clean." Read more...

Randy Burns is the producer/engineer I trust when metal has to hit hard without turning into mush. I clocked him in 1986 at Music Grinder, co-producing and engineering Megadeth's "Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?" with Mustaine: snare like a fist, bass tight, guitars sharp enough to shave with. He makes chaos readable, no fake gloss. His 80s run is a straight line of troublemaking: Suicidal Tendencies (engineer, 1983), Possessed "Seven Churches" (producer, 1985), Dark Angel "Darkness Descends" (producer/engineer, 1986), Death "Scream Bloody Gore" (producer, 1987), Nuclear Assault "Survive" (1988) and "Handle with Care" (1989), then Kreator "Coma of Souls" (1990).

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Mixing Engineer: Tom Morris

Tom Morris an American Music Producer, Sound Engineer and Singer. Together with his brothers Jim Morris, Laurel Morris owner of the Morrisound Studio. Tom Morris is probable one of the most prductive Producers and Sound Engineers with regards to the Heavy Metal music genre. Some of the bands he worked with include:Amboog-A-Lard, Atrocity, Agent Steel, Coroner, Crimson Glory, Iced Earth, Morbid Angel, Savatage, Toxik.

Digital Mastering a Criterion Studios, Miami Florida on 23 July 1986

Mastering Engineer: Mike Fuller

Michael "Mike" Fuller – Mastering engineer

Founder of Fullersound (est. 1986) and the guy who made loud records feel like a physical object, not a spreadsheet. Read more...

Michael "Mike" Fuller is the mastering engineer who taught records to hit hard without turning into a fizzy mess. He started in 1975 at QCA Recording in Cincinnati doing vinyl quality control (because someone had to), then moved into mixing and lacquer-cutting, and by 1978 he was mastering at Miami’s Criteria. In 1986 he founded Fullersound, staying tied to Criteria until the 1999 move to Miami Lakes, then opening a new room in Davie in 2009. His metal fingerprints run from 1987’s Toxik to Sepultura’s 1989–1991 leap ("Beneath the Remains", "Arise"), through Suffocation in 1995, and into the 2000s with acts like Yngwie Malmsteen. I hear his work as low-end authority, not studio perfume.

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Recording Location:

Recorded at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida, March and June 1986

Morrisound Recording Studio – Recording studio (Tampa, Florida)

The Tampa room that basically industrialized death metal - because subtlety was never the point. Read more...

Morrisound Recording Studio is the Tampa, Florida bunker that gave extreme metal a real, professional punch in the gut. Opened in 1981 by Jim and Tom Morris, it became the late-80s to mid-90s address I kept spotting in liner notes: Death (1988-1991), Obituary (1989-1992), Morbid Angel (1989-1993), Deicide (1990-1992), Cannibal Corpse (1990-1992) and a swarm of others. Even Sepultura leveled up here, mixing "Beneath the Remains" in early 1989 and tracking "Arise" in 1991. If you wanted drums to hit like a wrecking ball and guitars to saw through smoke, you booked Morrisound and stopped pretending. Yes, it is "just a studio" - and Tampa became a death-metal capital because of rooms like this.

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