AGENT STEEL - OMEGA CONSPIRACY
AN OTHERWORDLY COMEBACK
In 1998 Agent Steel reunited after a ten year long hiatus. This time with a new bass player in Karlos Medina and missing is also one of my alltime favourite metal vocalists John Cyriis, Besides King Diamond he is perhaps the hardest vocalist to
replace due to his extreme falsetto but despite that Bruce Hall does a remarkable job and he hits the high notes without any trouble. His voice is a bit more controlled but overall what a great choice of vocalist. This was certainly were Agent Steel could have ruined their legacy by picking the wrong vocalist but Bruce Hall is simply excellent. Not as weird or quirky as Cyriis but he certainly holds his own.
There has been some sort of thrash metal revival lately and I think that Agent Steel is leading this movement because of all the comeback albums we've seen so far from these old legacy thrash metal bands I must say that Agent Steel's Omega Conspiracy is probably the best one so far. It's fast and intense with some serious guitar chops and yeah, everything about this album is great, the lyrical themes about aliens and all sorts of conspiracies, I just love it.
Hightlights are "Destroy the Hush", "Illuminati is Machine", "Know your Master" and "Awaken the Swarm".
Who is the great dictator
Who oils the grand machine
Who lubes the wheels of progress
With blood drawn from your veins
One World
New Order
Illuminati poisons you
Rating:
| INFO |
Label: Candlelight Year: 1999 Country: U.S.A. Duration: 51:07 Tracks: 10 Genre: Speed/Power/Thrash Reviewer: Ruthless Rating: 4.5/5 | ||||||||||||||||
| TRACKS | LINEUP | |||||||||||||||
| Bruce Hall - Vocals Juan Garcia - Guitars Bernie Versailles - Guitars Karlos Medina - Bass Chuck Profus - Drums |
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