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Taken from the album "The Arrival". Preorder the concept album on limited coloured vinyl (500 copies in Neon Pink) and Casette (limited to 50 copies) at http://www.diamondkobra.com Listen to the album on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/15WanUCd0XSbj6W4WqKmN5 Music by Diamond Kobra Recorded between March 2018 and March 2019 Original Recordings by Viggo Håkansson May 1984 at Nightingale studios, Västerås, Sweden Arrangements by Otto Løfgren & B.b. Baconsson at Cellarium Studios & High Reverb Studios Produced by Bjørn Bors Baconsson & Otto Løfgren Engineered by B.B. Baconsson Mixed & mastered by David Trapp at Energiekreis Zuckerhut Studios Diamond Kobra is: B.B. Baconsson | Keys, Synthesizers, Voice Otto Løfgren | Synthesizers, Voice, Programming Guest appearances by: Michael Amott | Lead Guitar on Wyld Stallyons Hansi Kürsch | Voice on Intro & Outro Magnus Nordquist | Lead & Rhythm Guitars on Ultra Neon Superstar, Atomic Black, Satanik Panik Jarmo JM Mäkkeli | Rhythm Guitars on Kvortex One & Atomic Black Christopher Amott | Rhythm Guitar on Wyld Stallyons Vince van Roth | Lead & Rhythm Guitars, Bass Guitar on Violet Vyper & Between Two Worlds K.D. Johansen | Bass Guitar on Atomic Black Clare von Stitch | Voice on White Noize, Silver Highways Queen Baroness Voice on Kvortex One & Between Two Worlds Sven Schmoll | Bass Guitar on Kvortex One Heyk Plum | Bass Guitar on Acid Queen Petor de Jong | Obsessive Swearings on Two Shots Lova Dalberg | Voice on Eternal Sundown Logo design & album conception by Pixeleye Industries Video by Beastwood Films incl. snippets of Spaced Out (1979) Novelization of the saga Christian F. B. Belzer Cover Design by Tom Hodge, The Dude Designs Follow Diamond Kobra: http://www.diamondkobra.com https://www.instagram.com/diamondfcknkobra/ https://www.facebook.com/diamondfcknkobra/ https://twitter.com/DiamondKobra WE ARE DIAMOND FUCKIN’ KOBRA Back in 1984 Elin & Emeli-Sofi Lundin from Sweden started a band they named Diamond Kobra.  As they had no recording equipment, they tried to figure out a way to get their music on tape. One night they had the chance to get into the Nightingale Studios for small money after the session of another group. They jammed the whole night and recorded a demo tape. Unfortunately a week later the studio was destroyed by a winter storm. It was rebuilt the same year by a new owner and the demo went into a provisional archive with the other remaining material from the studio.  In 2017, 34 years later, Rögnvaldr Nyström bought the studio and found the Diamond Kobra demotracks. He remembered the last name on the tape: Lundin and asked his friend Otto Løfgren, who had married a woman from the Lundin family. It turned out his wife Ida was the aunt of the girls. Løfgren is a talented programmer and tech nerd and his friend Bjørn Bors Baconsson has a studio with a tape machine. As they heard the Diamond Kobra tape they knew they had to make an album out of it. It sounded like pure joy from the ’80s. They teamed up with their friends and fellow musicians to bring the music back to life and made an album out of it. The sound from the 1984 recordings was great electronical music, that had its own beautiful sound. It was time to add more vicious synthesizers and ripping guitars to blend it all into what Diamond Kobra does best: High-Voltage Darksynth Baconsson, who comes from a film scoring background, wrote a story for the album. A vision about a far future in which each song is a story of a novel from the life of Captn Quaid, his crew and their ship: the Violet Viper. The characters and their story came together in the concept album which also contains soundtrack elements. The project began in early 2018 when recordings started in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and England. Løfgren and Baconsson were extremely happy when outstanding musicians like Hansi Kürsch of Blind Guardian, JM of Psychopunch, K.D. Johansen of Supercharger and the famous Amott Brothers Michael & Chris Amott joined for the album production.  The cover artwork was done by well-known movie poster artist Tom Hodge of The Dude Designs. A complete graphic novel is already in the making, too. Just like the sequel to the first album. The journey has finally arrived at its destination: Diamond Kobras first album “The Arrival”.

Taken from the album "The Arrival". Preorder the concept album on limited coloured vinyl (500 copies in Neon Pink) and Casette (limited to 50 copies) at http://www.diamondkobra.com Listen to the album on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/15WanUCd0XSbj6W4WqKmN5 Music by Diamond Kobra Recorded between March 2018 and March 2019 Original Recordings by Viggo Håkansson May 1984 at Nightingale studios, Västerås, Sweden Arrangements by Otto Løfgren & B.b. Baconsson at Cellarium Studios & High Reverb Studios Produced by Bjørn Bors Baconsson & Otto Løfgren Engineered by B.B. Baconsson Mixed & mastered by David Trapp at Energiekreis Zuckerhut Studios Diamond Kobra is: B.B. Baconsson | Keys, Synthesizers, Voice Otto Løfgren | Synthesizers, Voice, Programming Guest appearances by: Michael Amott | Lead Guitar on Wyld Stallyons Hansi Kürsch | Voice on Intro & Outro Magnus Nordquist | Lead & Rhythm Guitars on Ultra Neon Superstar, Atomic Black, Satanik Panik Jarmo JM Mäkkeli | Rhythm Guitars on Kvortex One & Atomic Black Christopher Amott | Rhythm Guitar on Wyld Stallyons Vince van Roth | Lead & Rhythm Guitars, Bass Guitar on Violet Vyper & Between Two Worlds K.D. Johansen | Bass Guitar on Atomic Black Clare von Stitch | Voice on White Noize, Silver Highways Queen Baroness Voice on Kvortex One & Between Two Worlds Sven Schmoll | Bass Guitar on Kvortex One Heyk Plum | Bass Guitar on Acid Queen Petor de Jong | Obsessive Swearings on Two Shots Lova Dalberg | Voice on Eternal Sundown Logo design & album conception by Pixeleye Industries Video by Beastwood Films incl. snippets of Spaced Out (1979) Novelization of the saga Christian F. B. Belzer Cover Design by Tom Hodge, The Dude Designs Follow Diamond Kobra: http://www.diamondkobra.com https://www.instagram.com/diamondfcknkobra/ https://www.facebook.com/diamondfcknkobra/ https://twitter.com/DiamondKobra WE ARE DIAMOND FUCKIN’ KOBRA Back in 1984 Elin & Emeli-Sofi Lundin from Sweden started a band they named Diamond Kobra.  As they had no recording equipment, they tried to figure out a way to get their music on tape. One night they had the chance to get into the Nightingale Studios for small money after the session of another group. They jammed the whole night and recorded a demo tape. Unfortunately a week later the studio was destroyed by a winter storm. It was rebuilt the same year by a new owner and the demo went into a provisional archive with the other remaining material from the studio.  In 2017, 34 years later, Rögnvaldr Nyström bought the studio and found the Diamond Kobra demotracks. He remembered the last name on the tape: Lundin and asked his friend Otto Løfgren, who had married a woman from the Lundin family. It turned out his wife Ida was the aunt of the girls. Løfgren is a talented programmer and tech nerd and his friend Bjørn Bors Baconsson has a studio with a tape machine. As they heard the Diamond Kobra tape they knew they had to make an album out of it. It sounded like pure joy from the ’80s. They teamed up with their friends and fellow musicians to bring the music back to life and made an album out of it. The sound from the 1984 recordings was great electronical music, that had its own beautiful sound. It was time to add more vicious synthesizers and ripping guitars to blend it all into what Diamond Kobra does best: High-Voltage Darksynth Baconsson, who comes from a film scoring background, wrote a story for the album. A vision about a far future in which each song is a story of a novel from the life of Captn Quaid, his crew and their ship: the Violet Viper. The characters and their story came together in the concept album which also contains soundtrack elements. The project began in early 2018 when recordings started in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and England. Løfgren and Baconsson were extremely happy when outstanding musicians like Hansi Kürsch of Blind Guardian, JM of Psychopunch, K.D. Johansen of Supercharger and the famous Amott Brothers Michael & Chris Amott joined for the album production.  The cover artwork was done by well-known movie poster artist Tom Hodge of The Dude Designs. A complete graphic novel is already in the making, too. Just like the sequel to the first album. The journey has finally arrived at its destination: Diamond Kobras first album “The Arrival”.

Taken from the album "The Arrival". Preorder the concept album on limited coloured vinyl (500 copies in Neon Pink) and Casette (limited to 50 copies) at http://www.diamondkobra.com Listen to the album on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/15WanUCd0XSbj6W4WqKmN5 Guests: Jarmo JM Mäkkeli | Rhythm Guitars K.D. Johansen | Bass Guitar Magnus Nordquist | Lead & Rhythm Guitars Contains film snippets of: Ragman Weird Science Big Trouble in Little China Mad Max Army of Darkness Conan, the Barbarian Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Toxic Avenger Class of 84 Cannonball Run Rocky IV Blood Sports BMX Bandits Breakfast Club Blade Runner Chucky Cobra Friday, the 13th Back to the Future Ghostbusters Poltergeist No Retreat, No Surrender Aliens 2 Gremlins Blue Velvet Total Recall Scarface Terminator Lethal Weapon IV National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Re-Animator Halloween Robocop Evil Dead They Live Commando Predator Shining The Lost Boys The Goonies WarGames Music by Diamond Kobra Recorded between March 2018 and March 2019 Original Recordings by Viggo Håkansson May 1984 at Nightingale Studios, Västerås, Sweden Arrangements by Otto Løfgren & B.b. Baconsson at Cellarium Studios & High Reverb Studios Produced by Bjørn Bors Baconsson & Otto Løfgren Engineered by B.B. Baconsson Mixed & mastered by David Trapp at Energiekreis Zuckerhut Studios Diamond Kobra is: B.B. Baconsson | Keys, Synthesizers, Voice Otto Løfgren | Synthesizers, Voice, Programming Guest appearances by: Michael Amott | Lead Guitar on Wyld Stallyons Hansi Kürsch | Voice on Intro & Outro Magnus Nordquist | Lead & Rhythm Guitars Ultra Neon Superstar, Atomic Black, Satanik Panik Jarmo JM Mäkkeli | Rhythm Guitars on Kvortex One & Atomic Black Christopher Amott | Rhythm Guitar on Wyld Stallyons Vince van Roth | Lead & Rhythm Guitars, Bass Guitar on Violet Vyper & Between Two Worlds K.D. Johansen | Bass Guitar on Atomic Black Clare von Stitch | Voice on White Noize, Silver Highways Queen Baroness Voice on Kvortex One & Between Two Worlds Sven Schmoll | Bass Guitar on Kvortex One Heyk Plum | Bass Guitar on Acid Queen Petor de Jong | Obsessive Swearings on Two Shots Lova Dalberg | Voice on Eternal Sundown Logo design & album conception by Pixeleye Industries Novelization of the saga Christian F. B. Belzer Cover Design by Tom Hodge, The Dude Designs Follow Diamond Kobra: http://www.diamondkobra.com https://www.instagram.com/diamondfcknkobra/ https://www.facebook.com/diamondfcknkobra/ https://twitter.com/DiamondKobra WE ARE DIAMOND FUCKIN’ KOBRA Back in 1984 Elin & Emeli-Sofi Lundin from Sweden started a band they named Diamond Kobra.  As they had no recording equipment, they tried to figure out a way to get their music on tape. One night they had the chance to get into the Nightingale Studios for small money after the session of another group. They jammed the whole night and recorded a demo tape. Unfortunately a week later the studio was destroyed by a winter storm. It was rebuilt the same year by a new owner and the demo went into a provisional archive with the other remaining material from the studio.  In 2017, 34 years later, Rögnvaldr Nyström bought the studio and found the Diamond Kobra demotracks. He remembered the last name on the tape: Lundin and asked his friend Otto Løfgren, who had married a woman from the Lundin family. It turned out his wife Ida was the aunt of the girls. Løfgren is a talented programmer and tech nerd and his friend Bjørn Bors Baconsson has a studio with a tape machine. As they heard the Diamond Kobra tape they knew they had to make an album out of it. It sounded like pure joy from the ’80s. They teamed up with their friends and fellow musicians to bring the music back to life and made an album out of it. The sound from the 1984 recordings was great electronical music, that had its own beautiful sound. It was time to add more vicious synthesizers and ripping guitars to blend it all into what Diamond Kobra does best: High-Voltage Darksynth Baconsson, who comes from a film scoring background, wrote a story for the album. A vision about a far future in which each song is a story of a novel from the life of Captn Quaid, his crew and their ship: the Violet Viper. The characters and their story came together in the concept album which also contains soundtrack elements. The project began in early 2018 when recordings started in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and England. Løfgren and Baconsson were extremely happy when outstanding musicians like Hansi Kürsch of Blind Guardian, JM of Psychopunch, K.D. Johansen of Supercharger and the famous Amott Brothers Michael & Chris Amott joined for the album production.  The cover artwork was done by well-known movie poster artist Tom Hodge of The Dude Designs. A complete graphic novel is already in the making, too. Just like the sequel to the first album. The journey has finally arrived at its destination: Diamond Kobras first album “The Arrival”.

Some snippets of the original DIAMOND KOBRA demotracks recorded in 1984 by Viggo Håkansson at Nightingale Studios, Västerås, Sweden. Preorder the album on limited coloured vinyl (500 copies in Neon Pink) and Cassette (limited to 50 copies) at http://www.diamondkobra.com Music by Diamond Kobra Recorded between March 2018 and March 2019 Original Recordings by Viggo Håkansson May 1984 at Nightingale Studios, Västerås, Sweden Arrangements by Otto Løfgren & B.b. Baconsson at Cellarium Studios & High Reverb Studios Produced by Bjørn Bors Baconsson & Otto Løfgren Engineered by B.B. Baconsson Mixed & mastered by David Trapp at Energiekreis Zuckerhut Studios Diamond Kobra is: B.B. Baconsson | Keys, Synthesizers, Voice Otto Løfgren | Synthesizers, Voice, Programming Guest appearances by: Michael Amott | Lead Guitar on Wyld Stallyons Hansi Kürsch | Voice on Intro & Outro Magnus Nordquist | Lead & Rhythm Guitars on Kvortex One, Ultra Neon Superstar, Atomic Black, Satanik Panik Jarmo JM Mäkkeli | Rhythm Guitars on Kvortex One & Atomic Black Christopher Amott | Rhythm Guitar on Wyld Stallyons Vince van Roth | Lead & Rhythm Guitars, Bass Guitar on Violet Vyper & Between Two Worlds K.D. Johansen | Bass Guitar on Atomic Black Jonas Nordquist | Lead Guitar on Satanik Panik Zoe Scarlett | Voice on Ultra Neon Superstar Clare von Stitch | Voice on White Noize, Silver Highways Queen Baroness Voice on Kvortex One & Between Two Worlds Sven Schmoll | Bass Guitar on Kvortex One Heyk Plum | Bass Guitar on Acid Queen Petor de Jong | Obsessive Swearings on Two Shots Lova Dalberg | Voice on Eternal Sundown Logo design & album conception by Pixeleye Industries Novelization of the saga Christian F. B. Belzer Cover Design by Tom Hodge, The Dude Designs Follow Diamond Kobra: http://www.diamondkobra.com https://www.instagram.com/diamondfckn... https://www.facebook.com/diamondfcknk... https://twitter.com/DiamondKobra WE ARE DIAMOND FUCKIN’ KOBRA Back in 1984 Elin & Emeli-Sofi Lundin from Sweden started a band they named Diamond Kobra. As they had no recording equipment, they tried to figure out a way to get their music on tape. One night they had the chance to get into the Nightingale Studios for small money after the session of another group. They jammed the whole night and recorded a demo tape. Unfortunately a week later the studio was destroyed by a winter storm. It was rebuilt the same year by a new owner and the demo went into a provisional archive with the other remaining material from the studio. In 2017, 34 years later, Rögnvaldr Nyström bought the studio and found the Diamond Kobra demotracks. He remembered the last name on the tape: Lundin and asked his friend Otto Løfgren, who had married a woman from the Lundin family. It turned out his wife Ida was the aunt of the girls. Løfgren is a talented programmer and tech nerd and his friend Bjørn Bors Baconsson has a studio with a tape machine. As they heard the Diamond Kobra tape they knew they had to make an album out of it. It sounded like pure joy from the ’80s. They teamed up with their friends and fellow musicians to bring the music back to life and make an album out of it. The sound from the 1984 recordings was great electronical music that had its own beautiful sound. It was time to add more vicious synthesizers and ripping guitars to blend it all into what Diamond Kobra does best: High-Voltage Darksynth Baconsson, who comes from a film scoring background, wrote a story for the album. A vision about a far future in which each song is one chapter of a novel. The characters and their story came together in the concept album which also contains soundtrack elements. The project began in early 2018 when recordings started in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and England. Løfgren and Baconsson were extremely happy when outstanding musicians like Hansi Kürsch of Blind Guardian, JM of Psychopunch, K.D. Johansen of Supercharger and the famous Amott Brothers (Michael & Chris Amott) joined for the album production. The cover artwork was done by well-known movie poster artist Tom Hodge of The Dude Designs. A complete graphic novel is already in the making, too. Just like the sequel to the first album.