Almost one decade since their formation, the quartet returns with a steady lineup of Matt Mellon (drums), Demian Fenton and Tim Mellon (guitar, vocals), and Brad D. (bass). “Malignant Worthlessness” unfolds a swirling array of thrusting force, and this is to say that the brutality has never been on leash since the debut full-length album “Suicide Euphoria” and the follow-up album “Posthumous Humiliation” emphasized grinding percussion qualities.

The raw cacophonous production this time bulldozes anything that stands in the way amid the chaotic atmosphere of thick guitar riffing; there are some whirlwind grooves injected with the blood-soaked sawing abrasive action of the guitars.

The vocals are insane and have a filthy inhuman grind-gore tone, ultimately brutal and otherworldly. Right off the bat, Pissgrave follows its method of sawing you from throat to ear; the opening track “In Heretic Blood Christened” boosts faster tempos as you can imagine yourself being covered with maggots while listening to these abyssal torturous shrieks that pack imaginable chaos of evil death metal.

“Malignant Worthlessness” completes the trilogy begun with the band’s debut “Suicide Euphoria” and the sophomore “Posthumous Humiliation”.

“Three Degrees of Darkness” emphasizes the songwriting formula. The opening moments create a purely hellish atmosphere, Pissgrave succeeded in dividing the songs into fast brutal sections to slower tempos and this somehow brought bands like Deicide and Incantation to mind. The vocals are deranged, as if tapped to some alien distorted frequency.

While the technicality and the pacing of the music bring a certain variation to the album, every track blasts at full force and shows no sign of slowing down until the riffs on “Malignant Worthlessness” drench your ears with blood-socked snarls. There are so many riffs injected in the same song before the guitars engulf you in a maelstrom of churning riffs, with rolling drums and blast beats the riffing style is meticulously displayed.

Pissgrave has elaborated its songwriting skills on songs like “Heaping Pile of Electrified Gore” in which the guitar borrows elements from thrash metal but only to pummel your brains with death metal malevolence. The vocals are just hideous, and ugly in tone, and with all the rotten filthiness accumulated in the atmosphere of the swirling riffs, Pissgrave drills its way through repulsive horror which makes the album truly engrossing and unpredictable.

“Dissident Amputator” showcases the aural violence wrecks frightening experience in the slower tempos which crushes you with pummeling double bass. When it comes to wicked qualities, Pissgrave puts a notable effect on such tempos, but despite the monstrous brutal riffs, the drums manage to create intensity and momentum in other songs like “Interment Orgy”. One of the album’s best songs, that creeps in with clinical double bass and seamlessly shifts between eerie snarls and the guitars have their way of keeping the intensity rather brutal and chaotic.

“Ignominy of Putrefaction” and “Lamentation of Weeping Wounds” are among the highlights, the drums are boldly dominating here, combining bursts of speed through distorted tremolo riffs and grinding composition, but gain momentum when the guitars add a chunky ferocity.

The Slayer-styled solos at the beginning of these two songs are notable for creating relentless brutality followed by long sluggish, monotonous slow tempos. In the final track “Mystical Obscenities” the guitar launches out hellish riffs while maintaining the massive tone of the insane riffing and the drums burst with a sawing tremolo assault.

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