XENTRIX - Shattered Existence Digi-CD

Issued as a 4-panel digipak with clear tray. Tracks 10-12 are bonus tracks from the Ghostbusters single.

Right at the tail end of the 80s, this band released a very impressive debut in "Shattered Existence" which stands tall as the sort of album that the likes of Metallica and Testament should have put out in stead of "...And Justice For All" and "The New Order". Far from being an overlong, hyper-repetitive, top heavy affair like the former or a overly simplified, radio friendly one as the latter, this album channels all of the right elements that made both band's early offerings such massive fits of spine-crushing mayhem, while also maintaining a soldier like precision between the rhythm section and the pounding riff work in a manner fairly similar to the contemporary offerings of Exodus. The guitar tone is as solid and biting as heard on "Fabulous Disaster", and the vocal work rings quite similar to the mid-ranged gruff normally heads out of Hetfield and Chuck Billy, mixing in a few New York elements here and there with backing gang voices at key points.