Head Stabber Interview 2025

I stumbled upon Head Stabber one night on instagram and I was drawn in by the logo.  He has since updated the logo but I still love this one best!

Upon listening I was instantly drawn in by the music; a simplistic yet original, raw, brutal oldschool feel with great songwriting and vocals.  Get to know Head Stabber below, or fall behind.

CEREBRALREVIEWMENT - Hello!  Love what you got going on!  Head Stabber has been in our constant rotation over here!  Thanks for being down to chat!  Tell the people your name, age, some things about you, anything you'd like!

RALPH/HEADSTABBER - Hey what's up thanks for havin me! My name is Ralph, I'm from Washington state and I'm 19 years old. Music and art is basically my life and I do as much as I can to get my ideas out there and share my passion with other sickos such as yourselves! 

Can you tell us how long you have been into making music?  Were there projects before Head Stabber?

I mean I've been a metal head ever since I was born so I got my first guitar when I was in middle school, I've always taught myself and for that it made me write riffs of my own... even if they sucked. Throughout the years, there were failed bands conceived through conversations with friends until I graduated high school last year and really decided to utilize my passion and somewhat skill to the scene and released the first Head Stabber demo.

How did you land on the name Head Stabber?  What are the themes that you make music around?  who are some influences?

Coming up with the name "Head Stabber" was actually very fun, to come up with a band name, you have to channel your inner sickness and really dig deep for something that actually catches people's eye and fits your overall vibe. It also just comes from my massive love for horror movies and the macabre in general, brutal death metal is a genre where you can actually go deep into the heinous aspects of reality and I try my best to convey that in some of my lyrics.

"Separation of The Flesh"

Ravaged & torn, flesh becomes twined and stretched

Unsheathing from the skin, I feel every nerve

Throat ripped to shreds, screams become distorted

Cause my larynx is contorted, I feel the dead's fingers

AS THEY GNAW!!!!!

Blood starts to clog, chocking on gore

Bones start to break, limbs torn away

My main influences for my overall sound varies a lot because i try to keep it a bit of a mixing pot but definitely stuff like Eternal Suffering, Mortal Decay, Dehumanized, Shredded Corpse and Scattered Remnants. But for my other project "Orgasmic Rot" I like to bust out some Dying Fetus, Waco Jesus, Lividity. 

So you do all instruments and vocals and recording for this project correct?  What has been the hardest part?  What are some pros and cons of doing it all yourself??

Yes I do all guitars, vokills and drum programming! no bass yet but hopefully soon. I would honestly say the hardest part of doing it One-man style is just not having confidence. if you want to start getting your music out there and seen then no one is here to help you but yourself in the beginning. Sometimes you just gotta gun it cause you don't know who will like it or not, but at the same time you have to do it for yourself to really make the art shine. Some pros of doing it yourself do include being able to just do whatever the hell you want! Minor cons of recording I would say are just hardware issues and shit if you don't know what you're doing sometimes like me.  

Can you tell us about Strong Bong Productions?

Wow thank you so much for asking about that! Strong Bong is an independent film I make that's inspired by shit like the CKY movies, Pantera Vulgar Videos and old Trailer Park Boys. I can't sell these movies because of all the copyrighted music but I do it for the passion of expressing my art visually and audibly. Physical DVD copies will be available in the future when the film is done, the only way to get it though is to meet me in person. 

What about Corpse Eater?  How did you get connected and start working with them?

Well about a year or two ago, I was at a Devourment show and went to take a piss in between sets. As im taking this piss, a guy named Mike in a Cryptopsy shirt came up to me and started screaming Cryptopsy songs at me and it was hilarious! Me and him start talking and we decided to work on a split EP with his one man band Emaciated Amalgamation back in January of this year. Months after that, this new label pops up called Corpse Eater Recordings and it turns out that Mike and another guy is running it. He offered to put me on the label and help with some promotion and I can't thank Corpse Eater enough for that! 

What is some music you are into that is NOT metal?

Despite the extreme sick shit being the main music genre I listen to, I actually listen to tons of other music genres as well. Just some random stuff I'm really into is old school Memphis horror rap like Triple Six Mafia, DJ Sound, Tommy Wright III. I also really love ambient stuff like Aphex Twin and certain video game soundtracks like Borderlands and Devil May Cry. 

Name 3 favorite albums

I have waay too many to just Name 3 so I'm gonna just list 3 albums from all of my favorites. Considered Dead by Gorguts is in my opinion the best old school death metal album ever made. Everything from the guitar tone, the solos and album art. Another just absolutely life changing album and band in general for me is Dead Again by Type O Negative. Every single song is this insanely cathartic and downright fun perfect vibe that I want in music and life in general. My last album would have to be Diarrhea of a Madman by Dave Brockie Experience. It's batshit silly as hell and I love it. Dave Brockie's humor is unchallenged and it really shines through the songs which are also just super fun and punkey. 

What is your family life like and are they supportive of your music?

I fortunately got lucky with cool ass parents! My dad is who I have to thank for getting me into metal music ever since I was basically born, I was introduced to shit like Cradle of Filth, Death, Pantera, Down and all that at a very young age. My Parents are extremely supportive of my music and overall art which I'm so grateful for... even if they don't want to hear their son sing about hacking bitches up and fucking the corpses hahahahaha.

Thanks so much!!!!!  Can’t wait for more music from you!  Anything you’d like to say?

Of course thank you so much for having me!!! I can't wait to unleash more Head Stabber this year and pummel everyone with some new music! Make sure to pick up a cassette tape of the new demo at Encephalic Productions and STAY SICK!!!!!  

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Head Stabber

Emaciated Amalgamation

Corpse Eater Recordings

Encephalic Productions

Poisoned Womb Interview 2025

CEREBRAL REVIEWMENT - Hello!!!  Thanks for taking the time to answer a few questions!  Can you state your name, age, and some things about you?

CHRIS / POISONED WOMB - My name is Chris - I am 33 and I’m based about 1.5 hours north of Flagstaff, AZ. My current active project is Poisoned Womb, a solo BDM project. Originally started out strictly as a studio project but now have a couple shows coming up.

What is the origin story of Poisoned Womb?

About 4 years ago I started really making an effort to go to more death metal shows, which required quite a bit of travel due to my rural location. Meeting a handful of DM musicians at shows, I was inspired to start writing and practicing music after quitting for a few years. Originally I had high hopes of meeting some other musicians and creating a project remotely, or finding others in Northern AZ. However I absolutely sucked at music at that time and hadn’t even refined to any extent my own style or musical ability. About a year and a half ago I really fell in love with the more brutal death metal sound. Simultaneously I was coming to terms with the difficulty of collaborating with others, with me coming from what I felt was kind of a position outside of any scene. What really finally inspired me to go ahead and start a solo BDM project was the guy behind Moldavite and Resplendency up in Washington. After I heard what he did, I fully embraced the idea of the solo BDM artist and officially embarked on the journey.

I think Casual Atrocity Amusement is fucking great.  Has it's own unique sound, nice riffage, and nasty vocals.  Can you talk a little about what it's like to be the one in charge of EVERYTHING?!  What is your process like??

Thank you so much - I appreciate your feedback! So now that I’ve come to embrace the concept of the solo metal project, I recognize the creative freedom it offers. I can also appreciate more the skill it takes for others to actually work together to create music as a band. I realize now that it probably wasn’t ever for me unless maybe I’d have kept with it when I was a teenager. I chose a different path. Back to the question-I appreciate that working solo lets me be myself creatively. Sometimes I’ll come up with a song starting with one riff and building off it with whatever I can come up with over the course of a couple weeks. That’s if I’m on a creative streak. Some songs are months in the making. I might decide to use a riff/motif I came up with months before and  add it to something brand new after I have a creative breakthrough. Once I feel like I have something solid I go and spend like a couple nights programming drums based on what I wrote for guitar. Bass so far has been strictly based on the guitar part, although I’d like to get more creative and better at it. The song’s concept/subject could come before, during or after a song is written. I keep a list of potential sick song titles or concepts. So far lyrics have always been written after the rest of the song parts are done.

How did you come up with the name Poisoned Womb?

I immediately regretted the name the day after I made it public last September. Fortunately it grew on me, especially after Cabinet of Ooze made my current logo. Now it’s like a part of me and I can’t believe there was a time that I regretted it. I guess I kind of realized it was not super original, but it was too late. Then I was like, fuck it, it’s just a name and what matters is how I feel about the music I make with the name. I was originally going for something with like 9 syllables - Nauseating Hallucinations - but then decided I wanted something short and simple that rolled off the tongue. After I was dead set on doing something more brutal, I wanted to pick a name that was child abuse related. My other contender was Child Harem. I credit Dylan Perry, a great BDM logo artist (not mine however) for ultimately helping me decide on the name Poisoned Womb.

Also, I love the lyrics and the enunciation throughout your gutturals!  So thank you for doing that!  How long have you been practicing your vocals?

"Depravity is endless, bottom of which it knows no end Completely helpless, beat of your heart is wearing thin Womb is enticing - an instinct urges you back in But you're immobile - the abuse just begins again Your fragile body finally succumbs to the misuse Your life cut short, you've been abused back to the womb Your life cut short, you've been abused back to the womb Only to be reincarnated back into the same abuse Conceived to be abused, you're born practically dead These monsters bring you back to life just to do it again Abused back to the womb, through the flesh portal again Reincarnated into this cycle without end"

Thank you so much - I wouldn’t have thought anyone could say something positive about my vocals. Back in January I was still planning on having someone else do vocals for me. At one point someone I follow on IG commented on a riff recording I’d posted. He said it would be sick with some gutturals over it, and sent me a voice clip with him doing gutturals. I was like, man I can’t do gutturals. He was like, dude just get on it now and it will get easier with time. So I kind of worked my way up to a mediocre level of gutturals by the time I recorded them in April. I have been practicing much more seriously ever since I signed up to do a show.

Yeah man the gutturals sound nice!  So you say you kind of quit music for a few years?  What sort of things musically were you doing before?

When I was in high school I was in a band and then in college I just jammed here and there. Nothing serious. Just kind of got preoccupied with partying and building a career…

For the shows you have coming up, will it be just you and a drum machine?  Or live band members?  

I’ll be doing vocals and guitar with a bass and drum backing track!

How are you feeling about doing the vocals while also playing guitar?  That’s always seemed to me like it would be a whole other difficult skill to learn. 

I’m feeling way more confident about it now that I’ve practiced for a couple months. Really starting to get the hang of it. Totally new skill for me so gave me something to work towards on a daily basis.

So a year and a half ago or so, can you pinpoint what pushed you over into your love affair with the bdm sound?  Certain bands? A certain album?  Something random?

 I think with my addictive personality I’m just always looking for more intense things in life, including music. In all honesty probably the first BDM bands that were on repeat around then were Devourment and Stabbing for whatever reason. Oddly - Amputated Genitals because I had a fascination with Colombia. Also Rottenness’ Die Wege der Lust. Really random. I mean I’d heard of the more iconic bands before, I saw Suffocation once. But I wasn’t really into the scooped-ass guitar tones and blast beats until then. Then it was a rabbit hole after that. I will admit that I am obsessed with some of the new bands like Regurgitated Entrails. Not that I want to replicate the style-I just think it slaps.

You are stuck on an island, you can have 3 albums dropped off to you. Any genre. What would they be?!

It would probably not even be death metal. Don’t think I can name 3 right now but I’d have some solace on a deserted island if I had something like Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy. That’s comfort music for me. Classic rock and shit that I grew up hearing from my parents.

Did Casual Atrocity Amusement ever have a physical release that I missed?  Plans for that?  Or merch perhaps?

So I had no idea how to handle getting anything on physical. I messaged a couple labels that left me on read and then I ended up just deleting the messages out of shame haha! Recently this chill guy that goes by Encephalic Productions asked to do a small run on tape so that’s it thus far. He has that for sale on his Big Cartel. I’m happy keeping it underground or DIY at this point, though I hope to do CDs sometime. Something special about holding it in your hands!

Seriously thanks for answering these questions!  I’m so glad you got the extra push and support to pursue this, and I really hope there is more on the way!!!!   

I’ll be watching and listening!  Any final words for fans?

Thank you for the support man. I really appreciate it. Honestly I think just doing something creative where the reward in the end is just knowing what you accomplished and having something to be proud of - it’s a great exercise in artistic integrity and humility. Especially with a genre where fame and money have nothing to do with it. I admire all the younger (and some older) people that continue to come up with truly incredible, brutal music.

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Poisoned Womb

Encephalic Productions

Resplendency

Cabinet of Ooze