Call “It’s definitely our most death metal record, our most personal record, our most focused and brutal record to date,” says SANGUISUGABOGG frontman Devin Swank when asked to sum up the Ohio brutalists’ latest album, Hideous Aftermath. Known for being THAT band with the unpronounceable name and unreadable logo, SANGUISUGABOGG has made a record as gore-obsessed and violenceinclined as any of their prior works including Tortured Hole (2021) and Homicidal Ecstasy (2023), but with a career-defining command over their ugly art. Says Devin: “It’s the one where we rolled our sleeves up and brought our A-Game.” Hideous Aftermath is the work of a band who has already cut a bloody swath into the underground and beyond.

SANGUISUGABOGG has emerged from the sweat and grime of countless US and international tours with the likes of Cannibal Corpse, Lorna Shore and Kublai Kahn as well as festival slots and their own headline runs. They’ve ensnared scores of new converts to their brand of the brutally absurd. Now in 2025, the ‘Bogg’s third full length leaves any “caveman death metal” tags in the dust. From album opener, “Rotten Entanglement” to the senses-pulping finale of “Paid in Flesh” this is the sound of SANGUISUGABOGG flexing every muscle they have. Enlisting producer Kurt Ballou (Nails, High on Fire) the ‘Bogg (rounded out by drummer Cody Davidson and guitarists Ced Davis and Drew Arnold) decamped to God City Studios in Salem, Massachusetts in the Spring of 2025. “We got off the road after A LOT of touring and wanted to drill down and be as purely creative as possible without distraction,” says Devin of the band’s decision to work with the Converge guitarist in Witch City. “Kurt mixed Homicidal Ecstasy, so he already understood what we were going for.”