This is the second album from US death metallers Stabbing.
Eon of Obscenity is the 31-minute follow up to 2022’s Extirpated Mortal Process, and it’s a real beast. Stabbing have put together a record that showcases their abilities in no uncertain terms. This is brutal death metal done very right.
This is brutal death metal, true to the style, it’s just better than most. I enjoyed Extirpated Mortal Process, and it showed great promise – Eon of Obscenity is Stabbing building and capitalising on this promise, realising it with the full weight of brutal death metal heaviness. It’s very tasty stuff, I have to say.
Eon of Obscenity sees Stabbing slash and rend their way to the next level. The songwriting and performances have been refined to a sharpened point, bringing a lethal edge to the band’s blunt force assault. This applies to all aspects of Eon of Obscenity, but I’ll mention specifically the vocals, as these are more monstrous than ever. The singer’s guttural growls sound like they are about to swallow the world. Her voice is definitely a strong asset to the band. Not to be outdone though, the rest of the music backs her up ferociously well, (the band contain current/ex-members of bands such as Architectural Genocide, Desecrate the Faith, Devourment, and Enterprise Earth, and there’s a guest spot on one song from the singer of Suffocation too).
Eon of Obscenity brutalises and punishes in all of the ways you’d want it to, but when you dig a little deeper, there’s more here than simple instant appeal brutality too, (although there’s plenty of that go around). For me, this is what elevates it. Across the album Stabbing throw in a few different ideas here and there – nothing too radical, but enough to let their music stand out. They take from a few death metal arenas, maybe adding a surprisingly emotive part, a deeper technicality, a dynamic explosion of riffing that catches you off guard, a huge mountainous slam party, or much else. All of this is subsumed within the band’s gore-drenched brutal death metal framework, but it all succeeds in elevating the material to above average.
Damn, this is just great. Eon of Obscenity is such a fun, satisfying, enjoyable listen. It gets in, dishes out the damage, and then gets out. There’s no messing around, no filler, no pointless intros or interludes, no time-wasting samples; it’s refreshingly honest and stripped-back – pure brutality, pure satisfaction. The replay value is high. This is my kind of brutal death metal album, and sets a high bar for 2026’s brutal hordes to try to better.
Very highly recommended.
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