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Let’s face it: if you got money every time a Brutal Metal band had a name that implied knife play, you’d be the one invading some defenseless country that has done you no wrong. Either way, Stabbing is supposed to be that Brutal Death Metal band—the one that consistently knocks it out of the park. Its new album, Eon of Obscenity, is precisely engineered to deliver that promise, an auditory experience meant to shake us harder than losing our job on a Friday. But since music this extreme is inherently inhumane, it risks leaving us completely numb. So, what’s the final verdict?
Good lord, this thing is ungodly heavy. It is truly obscene to no avail, offering no mercy and absolutely no breaks. It sounds like what might happen if Defeated Sanity and Cryptopsy were violently blended together, with guitars more saturated than my Instagram feed. The sheer, pulverizing force of Eon of Obscenity is genuinely breathtaking. There is absolutely no way you can play this in front of your normal friends and have them still believe you don’t hide body parts in the freezer. My ears definitely needed a substantial break after enduring this relentless onslaught.
Yet we must talk about the elephant in the room: those vocals. They are the kind of guttural, visceral roars that might make you want to check if you need new pants. I do my best at MER to avoid commenting on anyone’s personal identity, but, jeez, how does this woman produce sounds like that? Not even the roided-out bro at my local gym could dream of harboring such a creature in his throat. The rest of the band provides a perfectly hostile, nasty, and pitiless foundation. Every time a particularly vile breakdown hit, it made me pull that face—you know, the “this is so disgustingly good” grimace.
You’ve got to be ready for the well-established tropes of the style, though. Stabbing isn’t here to redefine Brutal Death Metal. If anything, they are offering an extremely competent and focused execution of it. There is only one goal in this endeavor, and it is to tear you apart. Forget about melodic variety or dynamic shifts, because these tracks unflinchingly stick to being vivid, audio illustrations of the ridiculous and graphic titles they bear. Now, you’ve been warned: don’t come to me complaining it’s monotonous, because this is practically as good as this specific, punishing niche gets.
Ultimately, Stabbing does not disappoint. Sure, the album is exactly what one might imagine from its grotesque artwork and thematic premise. Yet, it simultaneously delivers something so foul, unhinged, and punishingly heavy that it could easily compete for the title of heaviest album of the year. You should definitely consider throwing some money their way if you want this strain of wild, uncompromising Death Metal to survive another decade of financial starvation in the underground. Just saying.
Label: Century Media
Release date: January 30, 2026
Website: https://ampwall.com/a/negativeagent/album/terminaldays
Country: USA
Score: 3.7/5.0 (it might go up later o!)
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