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Review: 'Cocksure'
'TVMALSV'   

-  Album: 'TVMALSV' -  Label: 'Metropolis'
-  Genre: 'Industrial' -  Release Date: '12th August 2014'

Our Rating:
Ministry’s last few albums may have been disappointing, and as for the final Revolting Cocks releases perhaps the less said the better. Cocksure – a collaboration between Chris Connelly and Jason C. Novak – thankfully delivers what the press release promises, namely to bridge the gap between Wax Trax! era industrial and the future sounds of mass corruption.

Brace yourselves for the kind of lowbrow noisy shit schtick that defined the late 80s and early 90s Wax Trax! Sound, or, as they put it, ‘the bastard that once was “REVCO” deformed and dug up, re-animated and re-branded by CHRIS CONNELLY and JASON NOVAK .”Unfinished bizness” mutters Chris under his breath with a chuckle, then politely folding his arms and crossing his legs he whispers softly: “We’ll show these pussy-ass motherfuckers how it’s really done” adding with a serene smile “we’ll tell these ageing dinosaur fuckwads where to stick their dicks.”

Yeah. So...

‘Skeemy Gates’ is the punishing percussion overdrive that was ‘Beers, Steers and Queers’ revisited and sets the tone for the album as a whole. It’s the drums that dominate ‘Alpha Male Bling’. Under that. A dirty bass and distorted vocals lurk, spewing rantacious vitriol with Connelly’s distinctive Scots intonations. Aye, it’s fuckin gallus, and by ‘Guilt, Speed & Carbon’ we’re into the relentless industrial territory occupied by landmark albums like ‘The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste’. Fans of Ministry and Recvo will exult: ‘TVMALSV’ contains everything that’s been missing from Jourgensen’s lackluster output over the last decade.

Let’s be clear here: ‘TVMALSV’ doesn’t simply revisit the old templates and lay it safe with some obvious rehashes. Instead, it takes the best element of these classics and then proceeds to develop and simultaneously trash them.

The bass groove of ‘Ah Don’ Eat Meat Bitch!’, coupled with woozy synths thumping percussion and a nasty mess vocal distortion is on a par with the golden era releases and encapsulates everything that made RevCo ace up to (and Including) ‘Linger Ficken’ Good’. Fat synth strikes and a to-the-max rhythm section dominate the charmingly-titled ‘Cock Ripped to the Giddy Tits’, which gets as nasty as you wanna get, and while the snarling techno-industrial grind of ‘Silikon Suckaz’ seems rather obvious and generic in its Skinny Puppyisms and appropriation of well-established technoindustrial templates. For this reason, perhaps, the momentum does start to diminish toward the end, but at least Connelly and Novak continue to show passion and flashes of innovation.

The seven-minute assault that is TKO Mindfuck (featuring Richard 23) collapses in a loop of delay, and the sample-heavy, dubby din of ‘Cokane in my Brain’ is of a pure vintage.

It’s about as close to a welcome return as you could hope for, and kudos to Chris Connelly and Jason Novak for keeping it suitably brutal.

Cocksure Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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