The artist of the week: Bestial Disgorgement (Colombia)
Cali has always carried an undercurrent of extremity in its metal veins, but Bestial Disgorgement represent a particular kind of defiance. Founded in 2013, the band began almost as a concept rather than a fully functioning act, with early years marked by hesitation and shifting lineups. The turning point came in 2016 when drummer Sergio Andrés and guitarist Christian David decided to stop orbiting around the idea of brutality and start channeling it directly. They invited Alejandro Sierra to handle vocals, and suddenly Bestial Disgorgement had both a voice and an ideological compass.
Sierra brought more than just gutturals. His lyrical approach anchored the band’s identity in something darker than gore and more urgent than splatter. Bestial Disgorgement turned its gaze toward manipulation and control: the way mass media, politics, and unseen powers bend human will, strip away individuality, and suffocate free thought. The violence in their music became a mirror of that oppression, its heaviness echoing the suffocating weight of systemic domination.
By 2019 the lineup stabilized with the arrival of bassist Mauricio Varela, and rehearsals crystallized into a disciplined, destructive unit. Their live presence started to grow across Colombia’s underground, especially in Cali, where festivals and clubs became battlegrounds for their uncompromising take on brutal death slam. While influences like Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse, Cephalotripsy, and Lividity are audible, the filter is entirely Colombian, feral, unpolished, and yet sharpened by intent.
That intent culminated in 2022 with the release of their full-length “Reprogramación Genética”, an eight-track slab of carefully constructed chaos, produced under Caveman Records and Gravity Extreme Records. Recorded, mixed, and mastered at The Hills Home Studio in Cali, the album is claustrophobic in atmosphere and ruthless in execution. It is the kind of record that feels like it’s crushing bone under its own weight, but it also carries a clarity of purpose, balancing surgical precision with an instinct for sheer sonic punishment.
Around the same time, the single “Reptilian” pushed their audiovisual identity forward. Recorded and mastered at Demiurge Production, the track was accompanied by a high-definition video filmed in Cali that circulated widely on YouTube. It wasn’t just a performance clip but a statement of aesthetic intent: grotesque, aggressive, yet polished enough to reach beyond the underground while staying rooted in it.
Lineup:
Sergio Magaña – Drums
Christian López – Guitar
Mauricio Varela – Bass
Alejandro Sierra – Vocals
On stage, Bestial Disgorgement have grown into a force that embodies the paradox of brutal death: punishing yet cathartic, alienating yet communal. Magaña’s blast beats carve the framework, López’s guitar alternates between precision riffing and tectonic slams, Varela’s bass adds an undercurrent of menace, and Sierra’s gutturals deliver both sound and ideology with relentless conviction.
What makes them stand apart from countless brutal death slam outfits is their refusal to be merely grotesque. Tracks like “Reptilian” elevate the genre’s obsession with monstrosity into a metaphor for control and deception. The song isn’t just relentless, it’s thematic, a manifesto against submission, an invitation to confront the reptilian logic of power that feeds on ignorance.
Bestial Disgorgement may have taken years to bloom, but their emergence is that of a band fully formed, with both sonic violence and intellectual weight. In “Reprogramación Genética” and beyond, they represent a new wave of Colombian brutality: aware, confrontational, and ready to carve their mark on the global stage without diluting their underground essence.
They are not simply another brutal death slam act. They are part of a broader Latin American current that redefines extremity not as escapism, but as confrontation, where music is both weapon and warning.
In the end, Bestial Disgorgement are more than a band, they are a statement. They remind the listener that brutality in metal is not just physical but intellectual, that violence can carry meaning, and that the underground still holds spaces for bands who think as fiercely as they shred. For anyone following Colombia’s extreme scene or seeking the next wave of slam intensity with substance, Bestial Disgorgement demand attention. On stage or in your headphones, they are uncompromising, unapologetic, and unmistakably Colombian, this is the sound of a generation unwilling to bow to manipulation, and Metal Detector will be there to track every devastating beat.
