Chicago's SWEET COBRA Ink Deal With Black Market Activities Black Market Activities reports:
"Black Market Activities proudly announces the addition of
SWEET COBRA to the family. The band's Hawthorne Street Records release, Forever, will be reissued through Black Market Activities on June 24th.
Sweet Cobra will play day two of "Dudefest" in Indianapolis on June 21st at Zanies Too.
An admiration for '70s inspired groove rock and remnants of a hardcore driven past brewed the foundation for Sweet Cobra. The mind-boggling grooves and sludgy, down-trodden guitar riffs make avoiding toe-tapping nearly inescapable. Driven by murky grooves, Sweet Cobra incorporates the disgruntled fervor of hardcore as the finishing touch.
Sweet Cobra formed in 2002 with drummer
Jason Gagovski (
SUICIDE NOTE) and vocalist/bassist
Botchy Vasquez (
THE KILLER, CHALLENGER).
Guitarists Robert Lanham and Matt Arluck later joined on to complete the lineup.
The band made it's debut on Seventh Rule Recordings with Praise, introducing Sweet Cobra's boundary defying sound. Picking up where Praise left off is 2007's Forever, originally released through Hawthorne Street Records.
Forever offers eight songs, encompassing a similar reefer madness, with production by
Greg Norman (
PELICAN, RUSSIAN CIRCLES) and mixed by
Sanford Parker (
MINSK, BURIED AT SEA) at Volume Studios.
Check out Sweet Cobra on the band's
MySpace."