Mongo Ninja – No Cunt For Old Men

Colossal riffs, break-neck drumming, and throat-ripping vocals – these Norwegian thrashers deliver a relentless bout of fat-metal frolics and a perturbing measure of primitiveness. No Cunt For Old Men is not for the thin-skinned. Not least on the epic Broken Cock; who would have thought a song about a fractured penis could be such a sing-along ditty?

Then comes the insightful Wheelchair Hooker – with a chorus like “Your legs, your arms, they don’t work but that is your charm, no legs, no arms for you,” it’s surely a contender for most popular first dance wedding song. Perhaps not, but who says romance is dead? Clearly Mongo Ninja couldn’t care less whether we buy into this shtick or care for their razor sharp brand of punk, but if you take this stuff seriously then you’re in the wrong bar, at the wrong jukebox, spinning the wrong disc. This is big, dumb, odious fun. [Alan Souter]