“The South’s Too Fat to Rise Again” may be the greatest song title in history. And “Hooray for Cocaine, Hooray for Tennessee” isn’t too shabby either. Yes, Nashville Pussy is at it again, offending the humorless and churning out morally repugnant, 190-proof Southern rock grain alcohol spiked with so much sleazy punk attitude that, if ingested in mass quantities, it could cause blindness.

That’s a small price to pay for energetic, shit-kicking rock ‘n’ roll this ballsy. The black sheep of this white trash family, guitarist/vocalist Blaine Cartwright, says of Up the Dosage that, “This is our Back in Black!” And he isn’t just whistling “Dixie.” Political correctness be damned, Nashville Pussy are feeling their oats on Up the Dosage, sounding meaner and stronger than ever. And they are funny, and raunchy, too, as Cartwright details a sordid, impaired tryst with a high-spirited pregnant women who’s “meaner than shit, hotter than Hell” in the Stones-y, Let It Bleed-era “Before the Drugs Wear Off,” featuring a tasty boogie-woogie style piano that channels the spirit of Ian Stewart.

Then there’s the hilarious ode to masturbation that is the high-octane, rip-roaring “Rub it to Death,” its biting, supercharged riffs threatening to tear themselves away from the bones of such strong, riveting hooks, just like those found in the pulse-pounding “Spent” and an accelerated, utterly infectious “The South’s Too Fat to Rise Again.” Their Motorhead influences are showing, and Lemmy would approve.

Cartwright’s wife, guitarist Ruyter Suys, goes for the throat on Up the Dosage, her solos a hail of gunfire. That’s her singing on the hit-and-run blast of gutsy psycho-billy known as “Taking it Easy,” and she is a commanding presence. It helps to have rich, full-blooded sound, and for that, sound engineer Brian Pulito is to be commended. Ultimately, though, it’s Nashville Pussy’s mix of metallic AC/DC-like crunch and ZZ Top’s bluesy nastiness, so prevalent on the title track and mid-tempo drawls “Till the Meat Falls Off the Bone” and “White and Loud,” that makes Up the Dosage such a tasty meal, even if the cook probably spit in the food.

Label: Steamhammer/SPV