For Whose Advantage?

With their career spanning just about 10 years and a rather impressive array of albums, this one is surely their most popular. For Whose Advantage, is probably Xentrix's most consistent album. Although their are some better songs to be found on some of their other discs, such as "Balance of Power" or "Order Of Chaos". This album doesn't have any particularly weak tracks, hence the fact that you can listen to it from beginning to end and appreciate each and every song as they unfold.
If this band was attempting to emulate the Bay Area sound with this album, they did one hell of a job. This is about as close to the Bay Area thrash sound you'll ever hear from a band that wasn't from the Bay Area. As mentioned in a previous review of this band, "Sweet Vengeance" used to be a Metallica cover band. It would seem as though this band was oblivious to anything that Metallica released after ...And justice for all, since their is a large comparison between Metallica's earlier offerings and this bands song writting on this album. Once again, produced by John Cuniberti, the guitars sound fairly thick and the drums and bass are both audible and tight sounding. Overall not a bad production, a couple of toms could've been tweaked a wee bit, but this was released in 90.
The song writting has reached a peak for the band, as well as the riffs that are above average and definately don't make the listener feel as if they'd been short changed. Great guitar solos and some very cool melodic interludes here and there.
Highlight tracks to watch out for; False Ideals, For Whose Advantage, Desperate Remedies, Questions.