Stabbing
Ravenous Psychotic Onslaught

Has Roberto from Futurama created a band? It might have been better had it been so as Roberto’s voice would have been much greater than what we are getting on the debut album from Texas band Stabbing. It is the quartet’s debut EP with four tracks and about a dozen minutes of playing time, Ravenous Psychotic Onslaught is what they call it, and I believe it is meant to be very, very brutal with bloodlust and desperate anger. Conditions I think apply to many people living in the more conservative, read narrow-minded, parts of the world and Texas is one of the most backwards places in the world so one should expect some extreme stuff coming from there as a reaction from more sensible to the antiquated thinking of the general public. It should also be easier to provoke with extreme death metal there than in more progressive parts of the world.

Stabbing is described as brutal death metal and I think that is a decent description. It is smattering drums, guttural growling vocals that sounds like a moose or something like that on the quest for a mate. They just make everything over the top which makes the music appear slow and lacking variation, the production is not excellent. The singer is terrible, one of the worst and most ridiculous vocalist I have ever heard, not particularly brutal and combine that with the drums that sounds like they are hitting on cookie jars or something like that, and you have a pretty ridiculous EP.

This is awful. Not awful in regard to it being an album of brutality and gore, but rather than no one involved seems to have listened to it. If they had actually listened, they could have realised that it sounds like a bad joke, when I listen it feels like they were actually going for the worst sound they could. The singer is so bad that I want to laugh, and the rest of it is almost as much of a joke as that, as it seems like there is no structure, it seems like they were just going for brutality, perhaps something like the title. Problem is that it usually turns up a dull mess when you let loose fully, like in this case.

More a joke than anything else. Check it out if you want to have a good example on how you don’t make death metal. The third track kind of describes what I think about the album, or maybe that is where it was recorded – who knows? What I do know is that I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone, other than as an example that it is actually possible to make this bad music.

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