What do you say about a project that features one mythic Rock ‘N’ Roll guitarist after another and some of the coolest producers to have ever walked the face of the earth?
If you haven’t heard of Five Headed Cobra, you probably don’t believe in the supernatural. Baked on the sun cracked streets of post Occultic, Los Angeles, with a live show that rivals the hold your breath moments of Houdini’s near-tragic Water Tank performance, this Psyche-Glam, back alley quintet is equal parts séance and the other, a slow motion Majik trick. As if squeezed through a God’s portal from the other side, we realize, as we’re watching and listening, that in Quantum time, this band doesn’t even really exist. There is no time, no year, no decade of reference from where they were birthed.
Five Headed Cobra, in its purest form, will push your back up against the nearest wall. It is a force. It is raw. It is vulnerable. It is provocative. It can be soft as kittens fur, or hard as forged steel. It is a rare, emotional force. It prepares a banquet of confrontation for those seemingly starved for endless conflict and it feeds them mightily; light vs dark, power vs fragility, drama vs comedy, and farce vs laudation. Vocalist “Angel Dust’s” stage life is a stroll across a tattered high wire, the truth, a lie, while he lives a life dependent on a band that can weep out a sound akin to a funeral parlor organist, or explode into the most vicious sonic assault you will have ever witnessed. No directions, no molds, no schematic plan, just art, pure art.
Five Headed Cobra’s debut music video “Screaming From The Mountain”
At the famed studio, Rancho De La Luna, in Joshua Tree, California, Dave Catching of Eagles of Death Metal and Chris Goss of Masters of Reality and Queens of the Stone Age, teamed up to produce the first in a series of master recordings by Los Angeles based, post-occultic, Rock ‘N’ Roll outfit, Five Headed Cobra. Conceived by Nik Frost, after the music world was devastated by the loss of a number of major and well-loved artists: Says Frost, “I’d had the good fortune to have written and jammed with Velvet Revolver after Scott (Weiland) had left the band, and then done the same the following year with Stone Temple Pilots right before Chester Bennington left.” Not soon after, they were both dead! Grieving in the empty footsteps of these legends and drawing on his years of hard-core road experience forming and fronting The Bangkok Five (Universal Republic), and Breaking Arrows (Sony International), Frost started writing with his good friends from the Desert Rock/Joshua Tree scene.
Word spread and soon the sessions morphed into epic parties, which included the likes of Brent Hinds (Mastodon), Chad Ginsburg (CKY), Dave Kushner (Velvet Revolver) and others. Eventually Alain Johannes (QOTSA, Them Crooked Vultures, Eleven), Marc Diamond (The Dwarves, Motochrist), Todd Youth (Bloodclot/Danzig/Motorhead), Ace Von Johnson (Faster Pussycat, U.S. Bombs), Gilby Clarke (Guns N’ Roses), Damon Fox (The Cult), and then finally, Jorma Vik (The Bronx, Eagles Of Death Metal) played some drums and the band’s debut, Extended Play recording was completed. Mixed by two-time Grammy award winning Mixer/Producer, J.J. Blair, Five Headed Cobra’s music is a hard hitting breath of white hot desert air.
Band Members:
FIVE HEADED COBRA – BAND MEMBERS
Kelly “Mongrel Whored” Hagerman: Drums
Cody “Wölfgang” Jones: Lead Guitar
Ryan “Gotti Curse” Harris: Lead Guitar
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