While touring the third album High Priestess, Paige became quite ill with Lyme disease during the end of The KISS 40th Anniversary World Tour and took time off to recover. Paige and the Lotus wrote recorded Forever One, My Life, 50 Shades of Evil with producer Kevin Churko and added them to the new album. The second album was recorded with producer Julius Butty, and the demo tracks were shopped to Universal Music. Paige performing with Kobra and the Lotus in 2018 From the independent release of Out of the Pit, Kobra Paige and her music was noticed by Metal Hammer, and Paige was included in the 2010 Maidens of Metal calendar. After sending the debut CD to a few industry taste makers, Canadian journalist Carl Begai suggested another recording session for the vocals, and Paige re-recorded the vocals and remixed the debut CD with Kevin Shirley providing the first generation of the signature Kobra sound. Paige met both Gil Moore and Rik Emmett at the studio, and Rik Emmett did a guitar solo for the KATL cover of ' Ace of Spades'. The band recorded the first Kobra and the Lotus album Out of the Pit in Calgary with Toronto heavy rocker Greg Godovitz Goddo producing the first cut and mixing the tracks at Metalworks Studios in Toronto. 'I wanted to find some musicians to jam some Iron Maiden with but by the first practice we started writing our own tunes instead,' says Paige in an interview with Femme Metal. She showed up and told them she was not a drummer but a singer, and after jamming through some metal standards, she got the job. Paige answered an ad in a Calgary paper for a drummer for a heavy metal band. Paige and her band Kobra and the Lotus would open for Judas Priest at the Hammersmith Apollo four years later in London. 'When I saw the way the crowd responded when ' Painkiller' started playing, I knew I needed to be part of this culture', said Paige during an interview with Revolver magazine.

At the age of seven, Paige started classical singing lessons and classical piano, and after attending a Judas Priest concert at age 15, decided that metal was the right place for her voice and her passion.

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