[6] The band was formed in 1983 by vocalist and bassist Tony Benjamins, guitarist Brad Hull and drummer Colin Mattson under the name Critical Condition.
Although the album achieved neither the underground success nor the critical acclaim of Uncertain Future, it received some positive reviews,[14][15] and the music videos for "Macrocosm, Microcosm" and "Never a Know, But the No" were in heavy rotation on MTV's Headbangers Ball; the latter features cameos by the members of Alice in Chains.
Diablo, Sac Lunch and Thug, and joined the reunited Sanctuary in 2011,[18] appearing on their third album The Year the Sun Died (2014), but left in 2015.
Diablo with guitarists Riley Hull and Aaron Goff and drummer Paul Marshall in 2009, playing bass on their self-produced six-song album.
[2][6] In 1993, Hull and Benjamins appeared in an episode of "The Lame List", a recurring segment of the local Seattle television comedy Almost Live!.
On February 15, 2021, Benjamins and Mattson confirmed in an interview with Misery Point Radio that they were in talks of reforming Forced Entry for shows and possibly new material, with Jeff Loomis, Russ Stefanovich of Bitter End, or Dean Babbitt of Coven drafted as potential fill-ins for Hull, who was reportedly unavailable.