Gold Cobra is the fifth album by American nu metal band Limp Bizkit, released on June 28, 2011. The album is considered by many to be their return to form after the very different-sounding Results May Vary and The Unquestionable Truth. Critics agreed, as Gold Cobra was their most acclaimed album since Significant Other.
Prior to the album's production, guitarist Wes Borland returned to the band after a brief turn as Marilyn Manson's touring guitarist, and John Otto recorded with the band for the first time since Results May Vary, having been absent on the Unquestionable Truth sessions. Borland contributed a lot of his trademark weird guitar playing, providing riffs and arrangements that were traditionally unusual for Nu Metal, and the band once again brought the "dumpster funk" that fans loved from the Significant Other era on tracks like "Gold Cobra" and "Shark Attack" (a kind of Sequel Song to "Break Stuff").
This album showcases touches of elements from the sound of many of their past albums, recalling some of the more Ballad-y elements of Results on "Loser" and the thrashy punk rhythms of Unquestionable Truth on "90.2.10". One of the most praised songs on the album was "Walking Away", an Alternative Metal song reminiscent of tool and Slipknot's more melodic songs.
Track listing:
- "Introbra" (1:20)
- "Bring It Back" (2:17)
- "Gold Cobra" (3:53)
- "Shark Attack" (3:26)
- "Get a Life" (4:54)
- "Shotgun" (4:32)
- "Douche Bag" (3:42)
- "Walking Away" (4:45)
- "Loser" (4:53)
- "Autotunage" (5:00)
- "90.2.10" (4:18)
- "Why Try" (2:51)
- "Killer in You" (3:46)
Tropes:
- Auto-Tune: Used on "Autotunage", in a very tongue-in-cheek way.
- Album Title Drop: Holdin' the gold, it's so golden, y'all, Golden Cobra
- Bilingual Bonus: The interlude after "Get A Life".
- Call-Back: The first line in "Shark Attack": Another one of those days...
- Eat you alive, goddamn punk, spit this fire to the Bizkit funk
- Dramatic Gun Cock: "Shotgun", as the title suggests, incorporates the sound of a shotgun being pumped and fired into its chorus and outro. The lyrics say that when you hear that sound, "you need to run" and that "everybody jumps at the sound of the shotgun".
- Out-of-Genre Experience: "Douche Bag". Not the whole song, just the random Jazz number at the end.
- Sequel Song: "Shark Attack" is a spiritual successor to "Break Stuff"
- Shout-Out: The lyrics of "90.2.10" describe a pool party that's 90% hot women and 10% dudes, and the dudes named include Paul Wall and members of Slipknot and Korn.
- While you're gettin' robbed like a Zombie
- Feelin' Korn, goin' Blind...
- We still rain the blood in the club like Slayer flip it up like Limp Bizkit
- Step Up to the Microphone: Inverted; during live performances of "Shotgun," Fred Durst plays the closing guitar solo.
