Sanguisugabogg – Homicidal Ecstasy
Sanguisugabogg – Homicidal Ecstasy
Century Media Records
Release Date: 03/02/2023
Running Time: 45:16
Review by Richard Oliver
6/10
A band that I have seen mentioned quite a bit but never heard are Sanguisugabogg and with a name like that they are a band that will certainly make you take notice. Made up of the Latin word for leech and the English slang for toilet, Sanguisugabogg formed in Columbus, Ohio in 2019 and “Homicidal Ecstasy” is the second album for the band.
Sanguisugabogg perform a very murky, brutal, down-tuned and utterly filthy style of Death Metal and the album is a definite step up from their 2021 debut “Tortured Whole”. As vocalist Devin Swank states ““Everything became more legit. The musicianship, the production, the lyrics – which delve much more into horror and body horror – are more thought-out. It’s not just a bunch of dick and fart jokes.” The sound of the album very much matches the lyrical content of horror and body horror being an absolutely vile and uncompromising mash of Modern Brutal Death Metal, Murky Old School Death Metal with elements of Hardcore and Grindcore thrown in for good effect. Songs such as ‘Skin Cushion’, ‘Mortal Admonishment’, ‘Pissed’ and ‘Necrosexual Deviant’ shift from gnarly blasting violence to barrages of chuggy riffing and bludgeoning drums to slow and sludgy moments of pure foetid filth. Sanguisugabogg are basically making Death Metal sound as disgusting as possible.
“Homicidal Ecstasy” is an album which will appeal to those who like their Metal as filthy sounding as humanly possible but where it suffers a bit is that it is just a bit too samey throughout and, apart from a few standout songs that I mentioned above, the songs on the album are difficult to distinguish from one another. Sanguisugabogg have got a formula that works, and I imagine that when performed live these songs will sound absolutely killer but on record it all gets a bit too samey but if you are in the mood for utterly vile and depraved death metal then “Homicidal Ecstasy” will meet those requirements.
‘Necrosexual Deviant’ Official Video
TRACKLISTING:
01. Black Market Vasectomy
02. Face Ripped Off
03. Pissed
04. Testicular Rot
05. Hungry For Your Insides
06. Skin Cushion
07. A Lesson In Savagery
08. Narcissistic Incisions
09. Mortal Admonishment
10. Proclamation Of The Frail
11. Necrosexual Deviant
12. Feening For Bloodshed
LINE-UP:
Cody Davidson – Drums
Devin Swank – Vocals
Ced Davis – Guitars
Drew Arnold – Guitars
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