King Kobra – We are Warriors

When King Kobra reunited in 2010 after almost 25 years apart it was almost the original line-up with Paul Shortino (Rough Cutt, Quiet Riot) joining drummer Carmine Appice, guitarists David Michael Philips and Mick Sweda and bassist Johnny Rod, replacing original singer Mark/Marcie Free. Two good enough records – King Kobra (2011) and II (2013) were released but failed to make any impact at all so things turned quiet from the camp. Until that dreadful performance at Sweden Rock Festival in 2016. Sweda had jumped ship by then and had been replaced by one Jordan Ziff, an unknown talent that later joined Stephen Pearcy’s version of Ratt. That the band released a live album from that gig is beyond me but after one listen it’s easy to state that the end-result was mostly a studio-job. I thought that King Kobra was done after that.

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