After a long day at work, there is nothing like coming home to listen to something akin to having your face slammed into a wall repeatedly. Well, this is exactly what you get once you press play on Hate Monolith, the new five-tracker from Perth’s brutal death metal maulers Xenobiotic. Already a country synonymous with quality extreme metal, the Aussie quintet waste no time in getting down to business, smashing into the savage opener “Autophagia.” A tone-setting start for the EP, the band follow-up the almost feral opener by kicking up the tempo a notch through “The Wretched Strive,” a punishing, ear-wrecking four minutes of blastbeats and hellish vocals. Thankfully, the cinematic soundscapes that add a progressive element to the EP on “Nether” break up the pulverizing onslaught, but it isn...