DISGUSTINGEST - Coagulating Putrescence (Review)

Written by: The Administrator

In the past, I (lovingly) equated listening to Disgustingest, Colorado's premiere brutal slamming deathgore band, to the experience of "enduring a fecal sludge aerobics class while the instructor simultaneously pummels you with cinder blocks." The short and lavatorial Purging Suppuration, released in June of 2025, was a very strong instruction to Kendrick Lemke's brand of gross-out brutality, and despite all of the seemingly negative words I used to describe it, I anxiously awaited more. Luckily, the wait was relatively short-lived. Disgustingest's second EP Coagulating Putrescence will be released February 20th via  Paper Wings Records, and the morbidly curious good taste havers amongst ye can check out the single "Digital Cyst" now.

Must like the debut EP,  Coagulating Putrescence is as brisk as it is gross. 5 tracks, 11 minutes. I'm also pleased to announce that this sophomore Disgustingest outing may very well be more disgusting-est than the first, which, in and of itself, is quite an accomplishment. That said, it feels oddly more refined, with clear care apparent in the songwriting. It's not entirely overwhelming in its titular putrescence; a surprising variety of engaging moments abound. The occasional ambient elements are a nice touch. There's a potent head-nodding groove that permeates, and the closing track "Fragments of the Self" sheds a little of the slamming brevity in favor of some slightly longer form and--dare I say?--progressive composition. 

Coagulating Putrescence is a gnarly banger across the board, a prime demonstration of the efficacy of snappy and well-constructed brutality. This is exactly the kind of follow-up release I was hoping for from this project, and while brutal slamming deathgore doesn't exactly attract a sizable audience by any metric, I hope this EP turns some heads.

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Disgustingest succeeds not only through sheer heft, but also by writing interesting songs. The tempo is all over the place, revving from plodding slam into the kind of aggressive mania that feels almost mythically abrasive. There's a constant ebb and flow that often verges into (positive) whiplash territory, and it keeps the potential monotony far at bay. Personal highlight track "Membrane Fabricator" makes me feel like I'm alternately taking a bath in a cement mixer and cowering at the business end of sandblaster. Across these 11 minutes, the riffage is extremely multifaceted for a slam project, with serrated jabs one moment morphing into mighty piledrives. The guitar blisters and squirms as much as it pummels. And, when the bass hits, it does so with a force that feels intensely tangible. The most egregious heavy moments on a track like the embedded "Digital Cyst" are liable to leave one dazed and teetering. And the vocals, less they be forgot, are truly putrid. The turbid gurgling churns and roils with a viscosity that feels impossible. No human mouth can conjure these utterances--they must be the vocalizations of some eldritch sewer-beast. 

​The aforementioned closer  "Fragments of the Self" is a weird one, discarding the raucous gutturals entirely in favor of a calmer, almost spaced-out instrumental palate. It's a nice contrast to the brutality that came before, and I can especially see how the inclusion of a few tracks of its ilk would help keep a Disgustingest album from feeling stale across the runtime. Here, it serves as  nice outro and breather before I inevitably hit replay. In sum: if this sounds appealing, checking out Coagulating Putrescence is kind of a no-brainer. The pre-order is available over on Bandcamp for the extremely reasonable price of Name Your Own Price. I highly recommend snagging a copy!

Disgustingest - Coagulating Putrescence ​will be released February 20, 2026 via Paper Wing Records. Find it here!

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Cover art by crippledxwings