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Artist: King Kobra |
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Once
again Frontiers Records has come up trumps in the signing of Carmine
Appice’s King Kobra for their latest release simply entitled ‘King
Kobra’, along with some of the original members this time around we
have joining Appice, David Michael-Philips and Mick Sweda on guitar, Johnny
Rod on bass and replacing original singer Mark Free (now Marcie Free) is
Mayfair Mall favourite Paul Shortino. This
is an all new album, not any refurbished old material, this all new, all
singing, all dancing, King Kobra, which gets underway in true rock style
with the excellent ‘ Rock This House’, with Shortino showing why he's
is one of my all time favourite vocalists with his own unique vocal
style. From here on in it's great rock n' roll right to the very last note of
the last song. The
great hard rock keeps on coming with ‘Tune Up The Good Times’.
This is old school rock n' roll brought kicking an screaming into the now, before
bringing the tempo down a touch with the moving ‘Live Forever’, then
it's back up again for the anthemic ‘Tear Down The Walls’, one of my
many favourite songs on the album. It's
pedal to the metal with another great rocker ‘This Is How We Roll’,
they don’t come any bigger than this ballsy old school rock, this is
how it was done in the day, big riffs and even bigger vocals, great
stuff. There
is more than an ounce of groove as the rocking keeps coming with
‘Midnight Woman’ and the bluesy ‘We Got A Fever’, then it's back
to the full on Hard Rock with the massive ‘Top Of The World’. The
melodic rock lovers will just love the sultry tones of Shortino on
‘You Make It Easy’, this is yet another highlight from an album with so
many great rock tunes, and those great tunes just keep coming with the
astonishing ballad ‘Crying Turns To Rain’, where Shortino delivers a
very emotional vocal that tears at the very heart strings. It's
time to really bring in the rock with the thumping, good time rockin' of
‘Screamin’ For More’, before the album closes in fine style with
another gentle melodic song the excellent ‘Fade Away’, which wraps up
another great King Kobra album. It may have been 23 years since the band
disbanded, but this comeback is well worth the wait and it shows there is
still plenty of venom in the band. |
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Tracklisting: 1.
Rock This House |
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