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Album Review – Stabbing / Eon of Obscenity (2026)

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Houston, Texas-based masters of absolute brutality are back with their sophomore beast, out-slamming, out-blasting and utterly eviscerating anyone who crosses their path of gore and destruction.

When Houston, Texas-based Brutal Death Metal brigade Stabbing came together in 2021, the goals were simple. “We were really just having fun and wanted to emulate the style of the bands we really liked,” said frontwoman Bridget Lynch. “Old school 90’s and early 2000’s Brutal Death Metal bands like Disgorge, Deeds of Flesh, stuff like that.” Fast forward to 2026 and the indomitable Bridget alongside Marvin Ruiz on the guitars, Matt Day on  bass, and Aron Hetsko on drums are ready to pulverize everything and everyone who dares to cross their path with their sophomore beast, entitled Eon of Obscenity, the follow-up to their 2022 crushing debut Extirpated Mortal Process. Recorded by Ben Gott and mixed and mastered by Chris Kritikos at Southwing Audio, and displaying a brutally classic artwork by Rudi Yanto of Gorging Suicide, the visceral Eon of Obscenity out-slams, out-blasts and utterly eviscerates their debut album and basically their competition, with Bridget taking her spot as one of the genre’s most powerful and distinct voices.

Get ready to be absolutely pulverized by Stabbing right from the very first second in Rotting Eternal, with Bridget proving why she has become a reference in deep guttural. In other words, it’s Brutal Death Metal at its finest (and goriest), which also applies to Inhuman Torture Chamber, where she keeps barking the song’s Stygian lyrics rabidly (“Mercilessly beaten to a wet pulp / Violently reduced into a lesser form / Vehemently smashing and degrading / Deeper fall into a state of catatonia”) while her bandmates crush our spinal cords with their undisputed heaviness. Aron sounds like a machine gun out of control in Masticate the Subdued, adding an extra dosage of total carnage and chaos to the band’s already putrid sounds, whereas the title-track Eon of Obscenity perfectly depicts what Stabbing are all about, a ruthless, demented overdose of sheer brutality where the riffage by Marvin sounds heavy, caustic and demonic. And in Reborn to Kill Once More, as expected, Bridget vomits the song’s infernal words on our damned faces mercilessly in another blast of Brutal Death Metal.

There’s still a lot more fuel to be burned by Stabbing in the name of extreme music, starting with the short and sweet instrumental interlude Ruminations, setting the stage for the band to kill us all with Nauseating Composition, featuring Ricky Myers of Suffocation. Moreover, Aron sounds even more demented on drums, offering Bridget and Ricky exactly what they need to bark like two monstrous entities. If you think Bridget can’t sound even more inhumane, think again, as she reaches a whole new level of dementia with her guttural in Their Melted Remains, accompanied by the venomous axes by Marvin and Matt. Then we have Sonoluminescent Hemoglobinopathy, and if you don’t know, “sonoluminescent” is the emission of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound, while “hemoglobinopathy” is an inherited blood disorder where the body makes abnormal hemoglobin or doesn’t make enough of it. Put these two words together, and there you have the epitome of Brutal Death Metal. When you reach the last part of the album with Symphony of Absurdity, you know you’re in front of something special (aka the revamping of Brutal Death Metal), with Bridget once again stealing the show with her cadaverous guttural madness, flowing into Sinking Into Catatonic Reality, where inspired by all giants of the genre the quartet concludes the album on the most violent note imaginable.

Exceeding the term “Brutal Death Metal” with their undisputed violence and gore, Stabbing have plundered the crypts of claustrophobia and darkness, only to surface with Eon of
Obscenity, a benchmark for modern Death Metal. “It’s just more extreme,” commented Bridget. “It’s everything that’s extreme about death metal, just taken a little bit further. The vocals. The drums. The riffs. It’s just faster and more boundary-pushing.” Having said that, I bet you’re dying to put your hands on Eon of Obscenity, and in order to do that simply go to the band’s own BandCamp, or grab a copy of the album from the Century Media Records webstore as  a CD or as a stunning neon-violet LP, and don’t forget to also follow those masters of absolute violence and gore on Facebook and on Instagram, keeping an eye on their breathtaking live concerts, and to stream their putrid creations on Spotify. Bridget and the boys are ready to join the new army of brutality formed of bands like Frozen Soul and PeelingFlesh with their newborn spawn, aiming at global domination and, of course, being more than eager to destroy your frail bodies with their undisputed, first-class Brutal Death Metal magic.

Best moments of the album: Inhuman Torture Chamber, Eon of Obscenity, Their Melted Remains and Symphony of Absurdity.

Worst moments of the album: None.

Released in 2026 Century Media Records

Track listing
1. Rotting Eternal 1:24
2. Inhuman Torture Chamber 2:58
3. Masticate the Subdued 2:41
4. Eon of Obscenity 2:10
5. Reborn to Kill Once More 3:16
6. Ruminations 1:34
7. Nauseating Composition 3:09
8. Their Melted Remains 4:04
9. Sonoluminescent Hemoglobinopathy 1:52
10. Symphony of Absurdity 4:12
11. Sinking Into Catatonic Reality 3:33

Band members
Bridget Lynch – vocals
Marvin Ruiz – guitars
Matt Day – bass
Aron Hetsko – drums

Guest musicians
Ricky Myers – vocals on “Nauseating Composition”

Metal Chick of the Month – Haley Roughton

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We are food for a predator… immobilized, we die this night!

Houston, we have Heavy Metal. And it’s not just Heavy Metal, but a bold and electrifying fusion of extreme music with symphonic elements and movie scores, and if you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about I’m sure our metal lady of the month of September will help you with that. Not only an extremely talented vocalist capable of flowing from the most demonic growls to clean, groovy vocals, she also works as a spacesuit instructor and flight controller at NASA, which gives you an idea of her wide range of skills and level of intellect and energy. I’m talking about the multi-talented vocalist Haley Roughton, the frontwoman for Houston, Texas-based Symphonic/Melodic Death Metal horde The Xebellian Triangle. I bet you’re curious to know more about Haley, her work with The Xebellian Triangle and with NASA, her other music projects and so on, so get ready for a wild ride with such up-and-coming name of the current metal scene.

Before we head into her current adventure with The Xebellian Triangle, let’s take a step back and know more about her studies and career, just to give you a taste of how smart and focused Haley is and how she also applies those strengths into her music. As aforementioned, Haley has been very busy with projects and assignments at her workplace at NASA, having recently been certified as a flight controller and having already been an intern at the Avionic Systems Division (Command and Data Handling), working with MSP430 microcontroller, C language, QNAP API, HTTP protocol, general computer networks and programming microcontrollers in C in the development of software/drivers for a network-attached storage (NAS) device interfacing to the MPS430 microcontroller for the Modular Integrated Stackable Layers (MISL) project. Not only that, she was also an intern a few years ago for a company called Magaw Medical, in Texas, laying the foundations for a wireless, HD video laryngoscope, and also a student researcher at Texas Christian University, where by the way she graduated in Engineering with Electrical Emphasis. Moreover, she’s awesome in LTSpice/PSpice, MS Excel, C, MATLAB and Inventor/AutoCAD, among other technical skills needed in her career.

Do you think Haley is a nerd or geek after reading about her career? Well, yes, but of course she’s proud of that, and when you listen to her vocals with her bandmates from The Xebellian Triangle you’ll then realize she’s not just a nerd, but a badass nerd. Currently formed of Haley on vocals, who joined the band in the spring of 2021, alongside Ivy Jayne Lance (Suicide Pandemic, The Crypt Alive, The Isdal Cadaver, Remnants of Izanagi) on the guitars, Hakeem De Hoyos on bass, and Aron Hetsko (Aethereus, The Crypt Alive, Dorzia) on drums, The Xebellian Triangle were formed back in 2019 by Ivy and Aron, who had their initial band together in high school and after several years  met up to talk about how it would be great to finish their old songs, put them out and play them live, leading to the birth of The Xebellian Triangle, with their sound being inspired by renowned acts the likes of Amon Amarth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Epica, Dimmu Borgir and Fleshgod Apocalypse, among several others. After releasing a few singles starting in December 2021, The Xebellian Triangle (also referred to as TXT) released in the beginning of July their debut full-length opus, entitled At the Banks of the Rubicon (which is by the way available in full on Spotify), offering us all nine songs of first-class Melodic and Symphonic Death Metal with Haley kicking some serious ass on vocals, as you can witness in the songs Dracarys, with Haley being also responsible for its lyrics and arrangements (and which also has a very nice vocal playthrough by our metal diva on YouTube), and Confirmed.

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Sometimes labeled by the band itself as “The Black Dahlia Murder meets Hans Zimmer”, the music by The Xebellian Triangle is highly influenced by fantasy books, movies and series the likes of The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and The Witcher, among several others, as well as games such as World of Warcraft, which Haley plays (or at least used to play) on her free time, and sci-fi and horror films including John Carpenter’s The Thing, one of Haley’s favorite horror movies of all time. As already mentioned, Haley was involved in the development of some of the album lyrics and arranging patterns during the recording process by offering different perspectives, and if you click HERE you’ll have access not only to the band’s top-of-the-line creations, but also to their tour dates, merch, social media links and so on, seeing how focused and hardworking the entire band is and how they added all of those influences into their music. As you can see in Haley’s influences as well as in the rest of The Xebellian Triangle’s, they are all kind of nerds with their own varying preferences, including the aforementioned books, movies, shows, games and other things like anime, but Hailey also brings to the band elements from R&B thanks to her vocal training, adding more clean singing spots where they fit in the music by The Xebellian Triangle. Moreover, the band also tries to speak on things that are important to them such as feminism, the fight for racial equality, gay rights, trans rights, and supporting methods that build a greener, cleaner, safer, fairer world.

Always developing a portfolio of covers to show off her vocal ranges both clean and harsh on her YouTube channel, including Take This Lonely Heart, by Nothing But Thieves, Out of Time, by Skyharbor, and Holy Roller, by Spiritbox, Haley has also been part of a Death Metal band named Dorzia since 2021, having already recorded with them the singles  Blood Portrait, Looking In and Deity’s Grasp, with all three songs demonstrating Haley’s flexibility in her extreme vocals from gutturals to piercing high screams. Calling themselves “sonic brutality from Houston, Texas”, this six-piece act fronted by Haley has a lot of potential to grow in the coming years, and I can’t wait to see if their first ever EP or full-length album will become a reality in a not-so-distant future. In addition, just like what was mentioned about The Xebellian Triangle, you can find all details, important links and other shenanigans about Dorzia by clicking HERE. Furthermore, in addition to her recent work with The Xebellian Triangle and Dorzia, Haley was also featured as a guest vocalist in the song Oubliette, released in November 2021 as a single by an Austin, Texas-based Deathcore outfit named Snake Father, and let me tell you that Haley simply stole the show with her infernal she-wolf growls.

Regarding their live performance, The Xebellian Triangle always bring a lot of energy to the stage, with Haley loving to run and jump around, therefore engaging with the crowd whenever possible, not to mention Haley and Ivy both have stage clothes they wear to keep a recurring image. The band mentioned in one of their interviews that they plan to expand further in this and always want to bring new and exciting things to the live show, and we all know that usually translates into some extra awesomeness to the performance of any band. There are no current dates scheduled for The Xebellian Triangle for the rest of 2022 due to personal reasons, though, such as Haley doing some travelling on her own, but I’m sure it won’t take long for The Xebellian Triangle to take your city by storm. Hence, I wouldn’t miss the chance to see them live if I were you simply because you’ll be able to see one of the most exciting new names of the current American metal scene, fronted by a multi-talented woman who’s eager to scream and roar in your face and show you that no matter what happens, the stage is hers.

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