Agent Steel

California's Agent Steel began as something of an anomaly, treading the murky waters between traditional melodic metal and more aggressive thrash. Too hard for Judas Priest's fans, too soft for Metallica's, the band initially wound up striking out with both camps, and continual internal turmoil soon brought their career to a halt at the close of the 1980s, although a new incarnation of the band resumed its speed and thrash metal assaults a decade later. Like many aspiring metal gods of the 1980s, Brazilian-born John Cyriis (aka John Camps) was a product of the famed Californi...