Sonia Anubis chooses Libidex latex for Cobra Spell UK+EU tour

SONIA ANUBIS CHOOSES LIBIDEX LATEX FOR COBRA SPELL UK+EU TOUR

Dutch guitarist Sonia Anubis, founder of heavy rock outfit Cobra Spell, has chosen all-black Libidex latex to wear onstage during the band’s current extensive European tour.

The tour began in Germany on February 7, and included two UK dates in London and Manchester before returning to the continent for a further 30-plus shows throughout February and March in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Switzerland. It is currently scheduled to finish with a homecoming gig in Utrecht on April 4.

Our wardrobe collaboration with Sonia will see her donning Libidex styles such as the Princess Catsuit and Ava Corset Belt she is pictured in below, which we think perfectly suit her powerful, leggy look and her penchant for those distinctively angular Jackson guitars she’s always pictured with.

Top image: Sonia Anubis onstage at the start of Cobra Spell’s current European tour looking suspiciously like she’s wearing a Libidex Miranda Corset Belt (photo: @arturtarczewskiphoto)

Sonia Anubis wearing Princess Catsuit and Ava Corset Belt — part of her Libidex latex wardrobe for Cobra Spell’s current European tour (photos: @afunerailles)

Of course, rock bands — and particular those of the metallic persuasion — have a long history of favouring fetishy stagewear. Leather was for a long time (and still is) the preferred garb for macho muso posturing, while Spandex, as worn by the likes of Kiss, has often provided a more glam alternative both for boys and girls.

Latex, however — while embraced by some punk, new wave and new romantic performers as far back as the late 1970s after appearing as a fashion fabric, first from Vivienne Westward and later from early London fetish fashion scene designers — has been adopted rather more recently by performers of the more traditional rock variety.

Part of the reason for this is surely latex’s popularity as celebrity fashion on television, on the catwalks and on red carpets — its frequent use by stylists charged with helping established and upcoming female artistes to ‘dress to be noticed’ resulting in its distinctive qualities coming to the attention of an ever-growing audience.

Inside and outside: latex, fishnet and fur in Manchester and Hamburg at the start of the Cobra Spell tour (photos: @afunerailles)

But we must also not ignore the fact that a significant proportion of the newer music acts emerging across all genres are now either all-female, majority-female or female-led. This means there are now, in general, a lot more female musicians in the market for eye-catching stagewear, and latex has a definite appeal among those who want to present a powerful, sexually confident image to their audiences.

We don’t know if Sonia Anubis would totally agree with Google’s AI overview of Cobra Spell — formed by her in 2019 after stints in all-female metal outfits Burning Witches, then Crypta (which she co-founded) — that it is a ‘sleaze rock’ band. But she did tag the picture above right — shot in Hamburg by her guitarist hubbie-to-be Adi Funerailles — ‘‘Feelin’ like a queen of sleaze!” and similar in a couple of her Instagram posts.

Incidentally, our browsing of her socials — it’s research, we have to do it — soon indicated that Sonia has a proud record of wearing other kinds of tight shiny black stage gear before getting into latex. It also confirmed how much the camera likes her, as they say. It likes her so much, in fact, that she has a separate modelling Identity on Instagram as sonia.the.sinner, where she describes herself as ‘mistress of sin and glamorous muse’.

Power-chording in Cologne in a Libidex bodysuit (photo: @lother_Luessem_fotografie)

For those of you idly wondering whether Sonia Anubis would look as good in, say, a dungeon setting as she looks when thrashing out power chords onstage, we found the last couple of images below that might help you make up your mind on that question. And by the way, she also gives guitar lessons (details on her website) — although whether she gives them while wearing latex is something you’ll just have to ask her yourself!

Check out the links below for more info and more great photos. On the two Cobra Spell links you can also find details of all the upcoming European tour dates.

soniaanubis.com
soniaanubis/instagram
sonia.the.sinner/instagram
cobraspell.com
cobraspell/instagram

Below: Sonia in dominatrix mode (photos: @afunerailles)