He grew up influenced by a variety of rock and roll guitar players such as Chuck Berry, Scotty Moore (Elvis Presley), and Eddie Van Halen, among others.
Cody played guitar on the band's album, Welcome To Bop City, which featured replacement singer, Easy Action's Zinny J.
Upon arrival in the US, Cody guested guitar on Stu Hamm's album, Kings of Sleep, but remained a part of Kingpin.
Cody's guitar playing on the album included the song "The Explorer", called by Rolling Stone, "his showpiece instrumental".
Skold became vocalist when Zinny J. Zan left the band, and American bassist Bobby Lycon joined for the recording of their next album, Second Coming.
[10] The band's most recognizable hit "Heartbreak Blvd"[6] was culled from album of music that was a hybrid of metal, rap, pop, and classical.
"[14] Cody's guitar work on Violent New Breed was notably still high energy metal rock, but some of it was actually tracked backwards on the recording for some different sounds.
A year later, Cody temporarily joined the band Coma along with Saigon Kick vocalist Matt Kramer, former King of the Hill guitarist Jimmy Griffin, and ex-Cryer drummer Ricky Sanders.
[17] Since 1998 and continuing into the new decade, Cody has been creating television commercial scores for Groove Addicts, based in Los Angeles.