{"id":102299,"date":"2024-01-19T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102299"},"modified":"2024-02-06T13:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:20:02","slug":"album-review-cobrakill-serpents-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-cobrakill-serpents-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"COBRAKILL – Serpent\u2019s Kiss (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

COBRAKILL
Serpent\u2019s Kiss<\/strong><\/span>
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\nFrontiers (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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These impressive German headbangers have yet to master the art of a decent album cover but the style is certainly eye catching if somewhat hideous. Thankfully, the music contained herein, just like the band\u2019s 2022 debut full-length opus Cobrat\u00f6r<\/em><\/a>, is a striking, scorching smorgasbord of 80s nostalgia blessed with fiery riffs, melodic streaks and vicious n\u2019 sticky glam attitude.<\/p>\n

Once again, CobraKill can\u2019t help but stir up 80s metal dust as if they were a fresh, new colourful book being slapped down on a library shelf that has been undisturbed for years. The likes of classic Ratt, Dokken, W.A S.P. and M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce<\/a> are conjured with such boisterous belters as \u2018Seventeen\u2019 and the streetwise gutter rocker \u2018Razor Blade\u2019. The sounds are familiar but laced with a cocksure heaviness that stinks of leather and hairspray as the gang swagger their way into Led Zeppelin territory on the groove based strut of \u2018Hungry Heart\u2019, the accessible AOR laced \u2018Concrete Jungle\u2019 and the Dokken fuelled \u2018Bazooka\u2019. And speaking of Dokken, one can\u2019t help but slither along to the George Lynch-fired crunch of \u2018Torture Me\u2019.<\/p>\n

What CobraKill execute so successfully is that oily fusion of glam-tinged hard rock and a fatty, heavyweight strength and arrogance. This is evidenced on the bruising \u2018Velvet Snakeskin\u2019 and another favourite of mine, \u2018Same Ol\u2019 Nasty Rock N\u2019 Roll\u2019. The latter is an apt title that proves with every slap of lipstick and soaring firework that CobraKill knows exactly what they are doing, and that\u2019s channelling an era where many bands of this ilk were far heavier than people realise.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not even sure if CobraKill themselves would have heard of acts such as Slik Toxik, Mr. Nasty and Sweet Pain, but that\u2019s very much the flavour here; trashy sleaze-ridden German metal that doesn\u2019t apologise for its blunt, throwback themes. To put it simple, Serpent\u2019s Kiss<\/em> leaves all sorts of stains on the bed linen and a sickly scent that combines sweat, perfume and good ol\u2019 fashioned denim, leather n\u2019 sex.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COBRAKILLSerpent\u2019s Kiss Frontiers (2024)Rating: 8\/10 These impressive German headbangers have yet to master the art of a decent album cover but the style is certainly eye catching if somewhat hideous. Thankfully, the music contained herein, just like the band\u2019s 2022 debut full-length opus Cobrat\u00f6r, is a striking, scorching smorgasbord of 80s nostalgia blessed with fiery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4771],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-cobrakill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102301,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102299\/revisions\/102301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}