PISSGRAVE - MALIGNANT WORTHLESSNESS
Known as much for their manaically unrelenting approach to blackened death metal as their lust for presenting as vile of an aesthetic as possible, Pissgrave's "Malignant Worthlessness" is now the evident conclusion of a trilogy dedicated to the most heinous and depraved acts of violence imaginable. Indeed, you may require multiple showers after indulging yourself in this flith.
Right out the gate "In Heretic Blood Christened" leads without hesitation by unleashing the otherworldly vocals of Tim Mellon as he screeches and howls to the classic stomp of death metal from the ancient days and plenty of aggressive, caustic drumming with a breakdown still coming at you like an incoming whirlwind. The title track begins with a nightmare of brief distortion before indeed hammerfistfucking with all of the malicious intent one can imagine. Sounding just like a song title form the early days of death metal degeneracy, "Heaping Pile of Electrified Gore" is a blasting, war metal-inspired sonic assault textured with just the right amount of rawness and offal. Maybe (though in all actuality, not really) a bit slowed down for moments, "Interment Orgy" has the... "liveliest", for total lack of a better word, display of Mellon's vocal charge, a damning diatribe if there even was one. Riffed and picked to oblivion before moments of swirling and trembling tremolo "Lamentation of Weeping Wounds" is sure to leave said wounds gaping forever deeper and wider. If it doesn't allude to the glory days of when labels like Relapse, Earache, and Roadrunner help put death metal on the map and scared the bejesus out of our elders, "Mystical Obscenities" is a static-infused, cacophony-laced end to all endings of this masterful trilogy, a hope of an eventual return of the project not even being necessary if this album is the high note that they wish to exit the scene on.
Without even missing a beat, Pissgrave have once again set bar so far over the too that at this point it may simple be unreachable at this point. By any standard, this is death metal depravity at its finest and captures the essence of what the music has always stood, which is truly nothing with any value of beauty whatsoever!
9/10
