Devin Swank doesn’t mind when people laugh at Sanguisugabogg. The Columbus, Ohio band’s frontman (and occasional standup comic) leans hard into the class-clown side of death metal. When Queen Elizabeth II died in September, he dedicated fan favorite “Dead As Shit” to her onstage, and he regularly introduces “Dragged By A Truck” as “a song about being dragged by a fuckin’ truck.” He runs Sanguisugabogg’s meme-poisoned, self-deprecating Instagram account, and when social media shit-talkers ragged on the band’s ever-growing stock of T-shirt designs, he changed their Encylopaedia Metallum genre to “merchcore.” Even his gore-obsessed lyrics are more slapstick than scary.
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