{"id":105605,"date":"2025-10-10T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105605"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:02:38","slug":"album-review-sanguisugabogg-hideous-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-sanguisugabogg-hideous-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"SANGUISUGABOGG – Hideous Aftermath (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SANGUISUGABOGG
\nHideous Aftermath<\/strong><\/span>
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\nCentury Media (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Another album of slobbering grind is upon us as Ohio\u2019s Sanguisugabogg slithers back into the recording studio to cough this cyst up. Hideous Aftermath<\/em> is a bit of a strange one though because while previous efforts were beer-soaked bludgeoning marrying death metal, slam and hardcore, this one feels and sounds more serious. What\u2019s wrong with that, I hear you ask? Well, the crusty combo seems to have lost its edge of buffoonery as generic slabs of death metal are created instead, where the likes of \u2018Sanctified Defilement\u2019 and \u2018Erotic Beheading\u2019 exist as meat n\u2019 potatoes stodge.<\/p>\n

I guess I should be thankful for such pleasures as my ears and slam \/ hardcore have never been friends. Even so, when the band does shift through the gears \u2013 all the while maintaining some seriously heavy riffs \u2013 it\u2019s the doomy \u2018Heinous Testimony\u2019 which comes up trumps as a slice of pulverising doomcore (have I just invented a new subgenre?). There\u2019s further variation with the blackened spine of \u2018Felony Abuse Of A Corpse\u2019 which also nods towards latter day Cannibal Corpse, while the full throttle death grind blitz emerges on \u2018Semi Automatic Facial Reconstruction\u2019.<\/p>\n

The titles remain typically goofy, the riffs meatier than an abattoir and in general it\u2019s a solid and extremely tight affair that will no doubt please the fans. I do like and appreciate the different approaches, particularly with \u2018Repulsive Demise\u2019 and its flirtations with a Godflesh-style of slog, and epic eight-minute closer \u2018Paid In Flesh\u2019 features a strong sprawling essence after starting out as a standard limp of death metal.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, Hideous Aftermath<\/em> is a good album, but I\u2019ve never really enrolled in the Sanguisugabogg hype so for me this is not the essential experience despite its chugging thuggery.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SANGUISUGABOGG Hideous Aftermath Century Media (2025) Rating: 7\/10 Another album of slobbering grind is upon us as Ohio\u2019s Sanguisugabogg slithers back into the recording studio to cough this cyst up. Hideous Aftermath is a bit of a strange one though because while previous efforts were beer-soaked bludgeoning marrying death metal, slam and hardcore, this one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-sanguisugabogg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105606,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105605\/revisions\/105606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}