Cobra Interview

                                                                   COBRA

Here's my interview with Nito (Guitarist) of Cobra. Cobra hails from Peru and these guys are Heavy Metal Maniacs till death!!



1. Hails! Thanks for taking your time to answer my questions. OK so my first question is how did Cobra form?

Hails maniac! Nito here. Cobra was formed in 2005. Initially the band was conformed by Pochuck (drums) and I (guitars), we are friends from many years and we always had the idea of making a band together to play heavy metal. Augusto (bass) arrived shortly after. In 2006, and after several unstable lineups, Harry (vocals) and Andrés (guitars) joined the band. The first two years served to forge Cobra solid foundation in their identity and commitment with heavy metal. So in 2007 we released “Demo II: The Highland Warrior”, Pochuck returned to the band and consolidates the actual line up, we entered to the underground circuit and started to play with extreme metal bands such as Anal Vomit, Necropsya, Evil Damn and others, and we started our long relationship with the Peruvian label Austral Holocaust Prods.

2. Most bands in the Underground are usually extreme metal why do you think there has been a resurgence of Traditional Heavy Metal?

Heavy metal can be as strong as any other extreme genre, but for various reasons has been distanced from the aggressiveness which characterized it in the beginning. As we understand in Cobra, metal is about breaking your neck with heavy and violent guitar riffs and not to show how good musician you are or other reason that can take you to sacrifice aggressiveness in your music. I think this is a recovery of the style for so much shit that happened.

3. 2011 you released your first album Lethal Strike do you expect to put anything out this year?

We are concluding the recordings of our second full length album. Also there are going to be other releases in parallel. We hope giving you more details when appropriate.

4. Cobra lyrically overall don’t seem to touch on politics and social stuff where do you find inspiration for your lyrics?

We've done it in few songs. I don’t know how it will be in the future, but for now most of all we write about rock and roll, fights, violence, persecutions, etc. We try to always have roughness in our lyrics.

5. For the readers can you give us a description of your live show?

We are a band made for playing live! We always give 200% and always need to be in action. We can’t stand watching our instruments, we always go out to play with the slogan of win the respect of the headbangers, we have the duty to inject them energy. Sometimes we leave aside the perfection in the execution of the instrument, but you do it better over time. The main idea is to go and die on stage!

6. Do you have any tours planned? (I know it’s out of your reach right now but if you ever do a Southern California show we have a lot of maniac’s in L.A)

We have plans to go on tour here in South America later this year. The idea is always to go further. Europe, North America and Asia are goals to achieve and we really hope to be there. Organize a tour is difficult for us because our reality doesn't allows us to dedicate 100% to music, as we have jobs to maintain and that stuff. However, we are always looking forward to go on tour to achieve our goals as a band.

7. Since you have a song called Blessed by beer I have to ask what’s your favorite beer?

Sincerely any beer that can be drink will be my favorite at that moment. But if I could choose it would be Cuzqueña or Pilsen from here in Perú.

8. What's your opinion on band's like Enforcer and Armour?

I like more Enforcer than Armour, but I think also that the Swedes haven’t reach to capture the violence of their first songs when Olof was responsible for all instruments. However, the situation is very understandable, we have achieved that neither. It’s very difficult to have that exact balance between a good sound and roughness once you enter to the recording studio and record professionally inexperienced. About the bands that have come out recently, you can find everything. It’s inevitable that this revival wave of heavy metal becomes a trend and brings also things with no value at all. I've seen bands with really lousy songs, that because they wear spandex, shirts of classic bands, use walkmans, ataris and in general, force the retro image of the 70s and 80s, they achieve considerable popularity.

Thank for your time!! Do you have any last venom to spew at the readers?

Thanks to all the maniacs for reading these lines, we hope to be someday in your town to rock out in a concert. This year we are releasing our second strike so be prepared!


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