I was looking at the Ministry website the other day (that’s Ministry the industrial band and not Ministry of Sound/Truth/Silly Walks) and somehow I missed the fact that after 13 years, Revolting Cocks have released a new album with the same title as this post. Not recently, mind you, but last February. As in 2006! They released a follow up remix album earlier this year.

A brief bio and explanation about Cocked and Loaded describes the new album as

A joyful return to immature delinquency, slutty sex innuendoes and stupid sophomoric diarrhea all molded together in some deliciously cheap, 110-proof Cognac flavoured lighter fluid - the sort of stuff they’d put on the top shelf of a small town liqour store along with the porn and firearms.

While I, like nearly everybody else who thought Psalm 69 was the utter canines low-swinging testicles, think that Ministry went very much off the boil, I’m quite impressed by the two new tracks on the RevCo Myspace site music plugin doodah. One is a remix and the other an actual track but they sound as visceral and frantic as they ever did. I doubt that the album suffered in anyway from having both Gibby Haynes and Jello Biafra guesting on it either.

This might make the perfect Christmas present - perhaps I’ll ask my mother-in-law to get it for me! I can already imagine her wandering into HMV and querying the staff “Excuse me, do you have any Revolting Cocks?” It’s either that Foetus’ Vein.