Rolling Stone
COBRA VERDE, Viva La Muerte

"Baby, masterpieces can coaxed from the ruins of five desperate years, maybe 10," sings guitarist John Petkovic on COBRA VERDE's avant-garage smoker Viva La Muerte (Scat CD). Petkovic knows what he's yelping about, too -three-fourths of CV (Petkovic included) previously recorded a near-decade's worth of twisted Cleveland-punk brilliance as Death of Samantha. Muerte is in that same fine, provocative grime, like Diamond Dogs sabotaged by "Final Solution"-era Pere Ubu…