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Review/ Revolting Cocks: "Sex-O Olympic-O"

  Tobias

Since Rammstein decided to abandon the slam-down industrial-rock-metal space in favor of, what do you call it, crappy music, Al Jourgensen of Ministry stands as the only real go-to guy still standing. One of his "fun side projects" – more like "supergroup without bragging about it" as of its last incarnation – is Revolting Cocks, which released Cocked and Loaded in 2006; despite cameos by Gibby Haynes, Jello Biafra and Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, it was a little too jokey, disjointed and disinterested with itself. 

Cut to now, a year or so after Jourgensen announced his retirement, something the Stones have done every year since they had their first experience with incontinence. As everyone expected, that fleeting fancy has melted away and Uncle Buck Satan is a hungry dude again, revitalized by a group of young guns who know what this juggernaut should have evolved into by now. And from opener "HookerBot3000" (picture Rob Zombie re-writing "Radar Love") to that song's closing remix, it's as menacing, street and streamlined as Ministry – not just Revolting Cocks – could hope to be without George Bush’s being around anymore to provide grist for Al's anger mill.

"Keys to the City (Vegas Mix)" resurrects Marilyn Manson's best days; "I'm Not Gay" offers goth-electro in the vein of Front Line Assembly and Front 242.

By Eric Seager

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