Artist: Xentrix
Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
Scourge
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
For Whose Advantage
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Dilute To Taste
Year: 1990
Tracks: 6
Although they sure as shooting qualify as ane of England's most successful flail alloy bands, Lancashire's misfortunate Xentrix in the end came to epitomize all of Great Britain's comparatively insignificant contributions to velocity alloy -- as compared to the genre's absolutely peremptory American bands. Formed in 1986 (as Sweet Vengeance, in the town of Preston) by vocalist/guitarist Chris Astley, guitar player Kristian Havard, bassist Paul MacKenzie, and drummer Dennis Gasser, Xentrix started life, not surprisingly, as a Metallica cover banding, bit by bit drawing attention to themselves on the U.K. taphouse tour and with their 1988 demo, Hunger For.... Fledgling Roadrunner Records before long took observation and signed the band, cathartic their debut record album, Shattered Existence, in 1989, and, later that class, the now ill-famed Specter Buster EP. Led off by a thrash-intensive, Ray Parker Jr. picture show theme, the EP hurled a evenhandedly naïve Xentrix into a reality of pain in the neck -- cease-and-desist litigation-style -- until the obnoxious and unsanctioned record was recalled from many shops.
Still undeterred just peradventure a bit wiser, Xentrix got back to work with a series of increasingly insistent, uninspired thrash albums, including 1990's For Whose Advantage?, 1991's Thin out to Taste, and 1992's Kin and The Order of Chaos EP. Inevitably, world unconcern and diminishing returns soon light-emitting diode to intragroup strife, and when they were dropped by Roadrunner in 1993, the band in the end crashed to a hold. Astley was singled verboten for sacrifice and a tentative reincarnation was finally attempted via 1996's Flagellum (featuring new vocalist Simon Gordon and second guitarist Andy Rudd), just this solely proven that Xentrix's already modest originative militia were well and really spent, signaling their unequivocal death.
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