STABBING - Eon of Obscenity

Release Date - 30 Jan 2026

Label - Century Media

Words - Tony Bliss

With a heritage of sand-blasted extremity as quality rich and plentiful as Texas can flaunt over most of its competitors (although I’m sure Florida and New York would have something to say about it), the emergence of Stabbing gave us yet another example of how the Lone Star state remains a particularly fertile breeding ground for thoroughly unpleasant music. Informed by the timeless brutality of Suffocation, Defeated Sanity, Disgorge et al, its been clear since the off that this band have the sort of visceral, spree killer like sonic intent to leave their contemporaries in the dust, and now with the backing of the mighty Century Media Records and a clutch of pulverizing new tunes, ‘Eon of Obscenity’ is not only essential listening for death metal aficionados, but may also open new ears to the joys of all things guttural and gruesome.

Opening with the sub-two minute beat ‘em up ‘Rotting Eternal’, the stage is swiftly set as we move into a panic-stricken ‘Inhuman Torture Chamber’  and ‘Masticate the Subdued’ with it’s blizzard of spin-on-a-dime riffs and blast beats. As brutal death metal goes, the record is an expert demonstration on how to get this shit done right from the very first snare hit, each track a succinct lesson in groove based punishment, be it the old-school leanings of ‘Nauseating Composition’ (featuring Ricky Meyers of Suffocation no less) or the snorting, flailing and churning ‘Symphony of Absurdity’. 

There is real power in these songs, born not just of Stabbing’s apparent grasp of how to make each transition as mercilessly hard-hitting as possible, but also a pitch perfect production job with plenty of throat-gargling rawness and blood under the finger nails to ensure ‘Eon of Obscenity’ assaults us with the sort of human ugliness that all great death metal should. Add on top of that front-woman Bridget Lynch’s downright terrifying guttutal spew, and there is no doubting these guys are the reak deal. A lethally put together thirty minute blast of repugnant noise, just as us death metal die-hards would demand.

8/10