Big Cock
Motherload Driver Wild Music

by Derric Miller
Staff Writer

Comments: One of the great cosmic tragedies in this or any century is the fact that Beavis and Butthead were never afforded the opportunity to listen to a Big Cock song or watch a Big Cock video. If there was ever a match made in Purgatory, it’d be the introduction of Big Cock’s music to Beavis and Butthead. For instance, on their new CD Motherload, you’d hear Butthead saying, “Uhh, he said balls. Cool,” on the track “Breaking My Balls.” Beavis would be screeching, “MILF! MILF! Yeeeeeeeeeeah!” And of course, during “Built for Speed,” Butthead could pontificate upon the meaning of the phrase, “she wants my pole position.”

Big Cock, the hardest band in the land, has their third musical installment of schoolyard humor, classic rock vibes, spectacular vocals and all around phenomenal songwriting with the eruption of their new CD, Motherload.

Before you even hear note one, you will have to give pause by the “artwork” of the CD cover as the Kings of the Single Entendre grace your eyeballs with the vision of an oil derrick gushing and spewing … oil … into the air. Magical …

“Is this thing on?” yells lead singer Robert Mason as the CD begins with the track “Get a Load of Me.” Yeah, he said “load.” Guitarist and main songwriter David Henzerling has the art of crafting simple, catchy, hooky tunes down to a science. Everything about the song and CD is raw, from the production values to the fact that they don’t layer their music (meaning, the rhythm guitar drops out when Henzerling plays a lead or solo). The reason they record music in this realistic fashion is because they want to be able to recreate in a live setting every note you hear on CD. What a novel concept …

“Stamina” is up next, an ode to not being a Viagra user. With the lyrics of, “Wind me up, watch me go, all night long, I’ve got stamina!” you’ll get the point again and again, maybe all night long.

They launch into “Bump and Grind” with the massive chorus leading the charge, instead of a guitar lead or riff. You’ll have to marvel at how they can continually come up with lyrics like, “I’m getting up, you’re going down,” without repeating themselves. Their energy level is frankly one of a kind; it’s almost like they are enjoying it.

Finally, you get a little different pacing on “Road to Ruin.” The other tracks barely allow you to breathe, with crunch after crunch of guitar and smashing rhythms, but “Road to Ruin” has richer melodies and less yelling from Mason. He’s allowed to flaunt his mid-range tone, which is basically pure sleaze and innuendo. Mason is easily one Rock’s best vocalists.

As always, Big Cock slows it down once per album, with a beautifully anti-poignant ballad. This time, it’s on “Don’t Ask Me to be Faithful.” For those not aware, Mason is also a gifted keyboardist, which he plays here. This track is just keyboards and Mason’s voice for the most part (bass and drums come in later), crooning sentiments like, “The only thing I can do, is promise to you … that I won’t be true.” Basically, it’s pregnant with The Cheating Man’s one-liners, like, “You know I hate to lie, I don’t have a reason why, to hurt you deliberately, why can’t you see … the others, they don’t mean a thing to me!” It all builds to a confession of, “You want a man I’ll never be, but I’ll be yours unfaithfully.” Like they say … the truth shall set you free!

If there is a “best” song, it might be their shout-out to the physically enchanting matriarchal individuals known as “MILFs.” The song, aptly dubbed “M.I.L.F.” is a bluesy, rocking riff-fest that will allow you to scream lines like, “I wanna get in between those child-bearing hips!” All joking aside, as far as anthems, it doesn’t matter what the lyrics say. This track just pounds (in a non-sexual way), it grinds (ditto), and it’s a hit song, even if it isn’t yet.

They end the CD with the first video from the new release, called “Built for Speed.” It’s the heaviest song by far on the CD, with Henzerling doing more than playing accessible guitar passages; he takes more chances and tears into a couple speedy and adept solos.

Like their other releases, the songs are short and blunt (11 songs, 35 minutes), and they pull everything except their punches. The band might get undo flack for choosing the name “Big Cock,” but when it comes down to it, it’s the quality of the musicians and the songs that really matter. So what if Beavis and Butthead would be thrown into epileptic seizures upon hearing one song from Motherload; if there was one thing they knew more about besides consuming nachos and girls’ thingies, it was music that kicks ass.

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Track listing:
1 Get a Load of Me
2 Stamina
3 Breaking My Balls
4 Bump and Grind
5 Road to Ruin
6 Slave
7 Don't Ask Me to be Faithful
8 Live to Rock
9 M.I.L.F.
10 Feverish
11 Built for Speed

HRH rating: 8.5/10