86 days till W:O:A 2023.
Ah! What's not to love about this band. Who's been reading my blog knows I am a big sucker for glam metal. Blackie Lawless is still one of my favourite vocalists and seeing his white overknee leather boots being reincarnated into a younger band is just fucking great.
Cobrakill from North Rhine-Westphalia formed in 2020 and set off to bring back the 1980's glam metal days. Their influences are clearly visible and audible. There is a lot of Mötley Crüe, but also early Judas Priest, Manowar, Skid Row or Iron Maiden. Frontman Nick Adams strongly reminds me of Bruce Dickinson with the hair and the spandex, but there is also an eery touch of Ozzy Osbourne. He is such an energetic frontman and manages quite high notes. I am having tremendous fun watching him. Here is their offical single release Electrifier, probably my favourite song on the album as well.
Founding member and lead guitarist Randy White is a perfect combination of Nikki Sixx and Blackie Lawless and I do enjoy his solos.
Cobrakill released their self-titled EP in 2020. In 2022 they signed with Iron Oxide Records and released their first studio album Cobratör. The album features 8 songs and runs for 32 minutes. Short and snappy, easy to listen to and have fun with. And I think this is what you are supposed to have here - fun.
Silver Fist is very Mötley Crüe and in Deathstalker you even have the motorbike sounds at the beginning, which immediately makes you think of Kickstart My Heart or any Manowar song. Cobrator starts with a pumping base drum sound from drummer Toby Ventura and gives way to some guitar shredding from Randy White and Tommy Gun. Desperados starts really fast and pays tribute to Motörhead with a kind of punkish attitude.
Bring It Sugar builds up slowly and gives bassist Crippler Ramirez some more room to be heard, before Nick Adams brings on some amazing vocal performances. This is probably my second-favourite song on the album and really reminds me of early Skid Row and Guns'n'Roses.
Lavender Haze Gypsy is an early Def Leppard-like rock hymn to rock along to and blends nicely into the last song We've Just Begun, which equals the obligatory power ballad, altough it is not quite powerful enough for just that. But it's close and it shows the band from another side. I like listening to it.
I hope "We've Just Begun" is to be taken literally and I am looking forward to any new releases from this band. I am too young to have experienced glam metal in the 80s and psyched Cobrakill brings me glam nostalgia and authentic hair metal. And of course I'll be seeing them at Wacken this year. I'll be bringing my leoprint spandex and some hairspray!
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