We have plenty of people, regardless of party, to blame for the bullshit we’re enduring for the second fucking time for fuck sake. But very close to the top is turtle-face, cunt neck Mitch McConnel who is likely to stroke out at a presser before he tries to flex any geriatric muscle again. But he’s a worm of human times, and he deserves a shit-in-mouth demise.

I’m trying to do more record submissions this year, so when I got an entry on my Bluesky account, I could not say no to a band called Cocaine Mitch. Because that Mitch is … yeah. That fucking guy. If there was a real hell, Mitch would be gargling lava and poison as his turtle dick goes through a mixer. Dreamt in joking fashion but now committed forever to the digital landscape by creator Robby Grodin, these 10 tracks on “An Act of Violence,” slashes back at the system that created this situation and comically honestly. It also brutally assaults the gears that made this nightmare possible. The approach is menacing grind with a healthy injection of samples that add meaning and anger to the songs. Perfect.

“The Anti-Fascist Family Soup Kitchen” opens with a news clip about, wait for it, a police officer accused of a crime and not yet charged, and then guitar heat launches, rampaging through fiery chaos, slashing before the playing speeds away. “Cis Death Squad” starts with a piece from Rep. Zooey Zephyr (D, Montana) standing up for trans and intersex folks, and then we’re into a full-blown blaze, the playing stopping and starting to tease your heart, beastly howls breaking through and charging into devastation. “Hey Man Bad Shot,” obviously a reference to the Filter song of a similar name, pummels and terrifies, howls curdling before the pace slows and grinds gears. Guitars fire up again as the ambiance gets stranger, mind-melting wails scorching fully. “Kill Yr Rapist” features guest appearances by Sarah “Ribz” Ribeiro and Tim “Potatoes” McGrath, and this is the filthy, unforgiving piece you’d expect from the title, the command gang shouted into oblivion. “A Brick to the Face of a Forced Birther” begins with a great Roland Martin clip where he lashes against pro-birth scum who only give a fuck when an embryo is in a womb. Machine-gun blasts smother, beastly growls peeling back flesh, smashing heavily with humid power.

“A Detailed Treatise on the Many Benefits of Trickle Down Economics” is a quick interlude with noise and madness, mimicking the reality of the concept they’re sending up. Wonder when that money is going to fall to us. Hmm. “AxCxAxB” contains a sample of Sen. John Kennedy (R, Louisiana) spouting off about the “dangers” of defunding police forces, and he sounds like the pig he is, slobbering over his words. The playing is doomy and chugging, absolutely unloading as growls scar, guitars race, and chaos blaring right into the face of “The Cokening.” That features Pomme Fritz and has beats clobbering, weird noises making your brain boil, and warped lines from McConnell, sounding like the froze at another presser, warbling bizarre thoughts. “(I’m Going) Democrazy” explodes, guitars lathering, the pace chugging, and howls battering you thoroughly. The heat takes over and drives the force into the ground, bleeding out into the dirt. Closer “Cocaine 77” is the weirdest, most fucked-up take on Eric “Asshole” Clapton’s hit, splattering with cartoon horrors, goo dripping from Mitch’s flesh lap of a neck, and the final blows dealt against a substandard enemy.

Cocaine Mitch is so terrifyingly well timed, it’s almost scary. Though I think we all knew the miasma of hell we were headed into it after the damned 2024 election, and this collection of songs hits on just about every inhuman and despicable thing going on right now. Grodin has a stranglehold on mockery, fury, and revenge, three actions we’ll need an abundance of going forward if we want to get through. Plus the songs rip, and the cover is fucking hilarious, and fuck Mitch McConnell and all the bullshit he enabled. Drink piss, loser.

For more on the band, go here: https://cocainemitch.bandcamp.com/album/an-act-of-violence

To buy the album, go here: https://www.haulofhorror.com/products/cocaine-mitch-an-act-of-violence-digipack-pre-order