Stench was produced by the band and Nicky Calonne, with engineering and mastering handled by at Castle Ultimate Studios. The album received widespread acclaim for its "technical proficiency and songwriting":
Press play if you like your metal technical, theatrical, and a little bit rancid. Nekrogoblikon - Stench.rar
The result of that labor was , self-released in 2011. It seamlessly fused blistering melodic death metal with carnival-esque keyboards, folk instrumentation, and frantic, high-pitched goblin growls. 🎶 Musicality Beyond the Gimmick Stench was produced by the band and Nicky
, moving away from folk-metal humor toward a darker, more modern metal sound that chronicles a goblin apocalypse The Overarching Theme It seamlessly fused blistering melodic death metal with
Calling the album Stench.rar (even unofficially) prefigures Nekrogoblikon’s later embrace of digital chaos. As streaming replaces local files, the .rar becomes obsolete—a nostalgic goblin relic. Yet the stench remains: compressed, waiting, inevitably leaking out of any folder it’s hidden in.