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In the clubs with Cobretti
Sometime in the past eight or so years, “metalcore” or “metallic hardcore” exploded as a subgenre. Suddenly, every town had a couple of bands playing death-metal guitar parts at hardcore tempos with a singer screaming like Cookie Monster, bands that could stop on a dime for a tempo change or a mosh-pit breakdown and whose members all had faux-hawks.
What’s a faux-hawk? You know what a faux-hawk is —hair swept to the middle like a mohawk. Your last waiter had one. Yeah, that haircut.
Adam Elias is sick of that haircut. He plays guitar in Cobretti, a surprisingly non-lousy rock band that finds a comfortable spot between precision metalcore and the sort of sloppy two-guitar hardcore punk that made our country great. Cobretti launched at the end of 2006 as a response to faux-hawk-core.
“We started going to more shows and everything there was about how people looked and were dressing,” Elias says. “It wasn’t about the spirit of the crowd at all.” The band includes singer Jason Knittle, bassist Shaun Gonzalez, drummer John Sanchez and second guitarist Stephen Sanchez (no relation).
Right now, the band is sitting on a finished album, waiting for the right time to release it themselves.
And, of course, the band plays Red 7 a lot; Knittle is a bartender there. “We love that club; it’s definitely our home,” Elias says. “Everybody is just themselves there.”
In the clubs: Cobretti plays Red 7 Friday and Tuesday.
(Pictured top: Left to right: Adam Elias, Shaun Gonzalez, and Stephen Sanchez of Cobretti. Photo by Tammy Perez FOR AMERICAN-STATESMAN)
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