Year : 2017
Style : Glam Hard Rock
Country : South Africa
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 150 mb
Bio:
Formed in November 2005, L.A. COBRA is South Africa’s answer to 80’s Hair Metal – Pretoria Style! The only Glam Rock/Metal Sleaze , Rock ‘n Roll band on the African Continent.Yes, they are the Hottest Band in Town, breaking away from current ‘modern’ rock and ‘nu metal’ trends, L.A. COBRA combine elements of hard hitting 80’s Rock with just enough sleaze and humour to rock the party!!!!!!!With their over-the-top stage antics, outfits and attitude, L.A. COBRA is set to change the face of modern music as we know it!!!! True Rock Stars in deed, professionalism the answer to their success. The perfect band to party with, and guaranteed the most memorable time of your life.Largely influenced by 80’s rock bands like Mötley Crüe, Guns & Roses, Bon Jovi, White Snake, Poison, Kiss, WASP and Skid Row etc. L.A. COBRA is all about girls, Harleys, big hair and a good time. The band is: Don Cobra on vocals and guitar, Slade on lead guitar, bass guitar and Animal on drums, bringing back those memorable guitar solo’s and “balls to the wall” hard rock shows we’re all starved for with a modern twist from their songwriting as we know them, these guys are the real deal, and live Rock and Roll!L.A. Cobra is the Glam band of the future, while their music and image portray the 80’s its still modern rock, which can be played over any radio station and drive ladies insane with pants tighter than skin.L.A. COBRA’s debut release “Cherry Hill” (mixed and produced by Ashton Nyte and L.A. COBRA) was released through Intervention Arts on 27 January 2007 at a Sleaze-Rocking Party at Zeplins in Pretoria with more than a 1400 people in attendance! In association with MK89’s Mullets, Zeplins, Red Tape Clothing and Jack Daniels.L.A. Cobra 2011 – L.A. Cobra Second album “How much snake can you take?? will be available in August 2011.It’s time to spit again!!L.A. Cobra 2012 - Songs from “How much Snake can you take?? Are used in a local movie called “Bustin’ Tjops”
Album:
Pretoria, South Africa: the Rock n’ Roll spirit of 80s/90s ‘Hair Metal’ still lives in this country, as evidenced by L.A. Cobra which is prepping for the release of it’s 2017 album Shotgun Slinger. We caught up with Don Cobra to hear about the spectacular progress the band has made on it’s crowd funding campaign from fans locally and abroad to fund the album – and congratulate them for having met minimum target yesterday! But minimum target does not mean that all necessarily is hunky dory. There is much to still be done for the band to realize it’s vision for the album release, which includes a European tour… “Yes, it’s the first time we’ve tried crowd funding, and actually we didn’t have any other choice but to give it a go. It’s just too expensive to fund it out of our own pockets. We were approached by a few record labels but the deals were very one sided, so after a long debate we said let’s do it independently, and for us it worked out great.” ~ Don Cobra (vocals/guitar, L.A. Cobra)It’s not been all smooth sailing, and the band shows that it has been prepared to work hard and smart to build enough momentum for the campaign to yield results. It started with the release of single last year, ‘Rock n Roll Pretoria’, followed up with a music video launched at the height of the campaign with the album’s title track ‘Shotgun Slinger’. A huge push has been underway to also raise funds via merch sales and the solidification of an ironically tasteful “sleaze” brand, and which includes Swedish model Marielle Tengström starring on the Shotgun Slinger album cover. Lots of press activity, and communicating with people all over the world has played it’s role. The independent route seems to be paying off: “There’s so many benefits. You build up hype till the release date. You see the interest in your band and album locally and abroad, and what I love is your friends, fans and family get involved and everyone starts to work as one huge team which was very cool to us; to see after the twelve years we’ve been around that people have our backs. It’s obviously hard work, and now we have to deliver a high quality product for the people who believed in us and supporting our dream without doubting us.” ~ Don CobraSomewhat predictably, considering the genre, the core theme is about… boys and girls. Don describes the recent music video which shares the album title.“The ‘Shotgun Slinger’ video is our first song-driven performance video actually, with only one character which is ‘Shotgun Slinger’ and is portrayed by local alternative model Michelle Swart, and Slade, Ewil and Callie The Animal and myself performing. We decided to rather concentrate on the song and band’s performance this time, keeping it simple. The video is in black and white. It symbolizes the ‘Yin Yang’ symbol and as you know the Yin and Yang is a Chinese symbol for balance and harmony, and the opposite forces of nature; basically, this symbol represents the positive and negative forces in the universe and that’s what we’re portraying in this video with the wardrobe and different background colors. Lyrically, the song is about that ‘one’ girl that is just out of your league, but you decide ‘fuck it’ and go for it anyways, even though you know she’s gonna put a bullet in your heart and make you miserable, even “dead” inside… haha! It happened to all of us I guess at some point in our lives. Everyone can relate.” ~ Don Cobra.Shotgun Slinger will add to a legacy of “sleaze” consisting of two earlier albums with 2007’s Cherry Hill debut followed by the 2010 How much snake can you take?, which has opened many doors for the band in the long lead up to 2017’s much anticipated album. As mentioned earlier in the article, L.A. Cobra is seeking to tap it’s international potential with the new release, and negotiations are at play for a European tour to connect with already eager fans in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and maybe Italy. Already, the release promises to be of an international caliber with Don revealing a name on the production team. “Swedish rockstar Martin Sweet (CRASHDIET, Sister and Sweet Creature) is mixing, mastering and producing our new album, which is a first for us having someone out of our circle working with us on international standards. I must say I’m very honoured and proud to have Martin working on it. He is super talented and an expert in the genre, and I’ve stated previously he knows what we want before we even want it! Our new album is a bit heavier than our previous albums, I must say, and our songwriting style has changed a bit. I like our new sound. You can obviously hear the 80’s glam influences all over but it’s got more balls, if you know what I mean.” ~ Don Cobra
Line-Up:
Don Cobra (Vocals/Guitar)
Slade - Guitar
Callie the Animal (Drums)
Ewil Honey (Bass)
Tracklist:
01. Running Wild
02. Sell Your Soul (Little Girl)
03. Ride
04. Shotgun Slinger
05. Somebody To Love
06. See Right Thru You
07. WTFR (Wrong. Things. Feel. Right)
08. War
09. Good Taste In Bad Woman
10. Midnight
11. Rock 'N Roll Pretoria
+ Video "Shotgun Slinger" (Official Video)
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