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DIAMOND KOBRA - Promo by The Pixeleye Dirk Behlau

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Diamond Kobra is:

B.B. Baconsson | Keys, Synthesizers, Voice

Otto Løfgren | Synthesizers, Voice, Programming

www.diamondkobra.com

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.

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Enduro by Shannon Sproule

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Overdosing on synthwave lately...

mil gerações by Edward Lund

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Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;

1 Chronicles 16:15 King James Version

role.bandcamp.com/album/mil-gera-es

DJ Silna @ S.I.L.O. Grotto by Silna Tuu'luq

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It's Saturday and that means DJ Silna will be spinning 90 minutes of Chillwave, Synthwave, Indie Dance, Nu Disco and more at the sun drenched S.I.L.O grotto. Sunny skies, blue water and lots of friendly chatter!

Come and get your feet wet while you listen - bikinis and beachwear are the way but if you want to avoid tanlines, you know what to do!

LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cat%20Island/90/121/2001

Lorville City: Retrospective by ibracitizen

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I reworked one of my Lorville captures giving it an '80s Retrowave/Synthwave/Outrun aesthetic.

DIAMOND KOBRA - Return of the Starbeast by The Pixeleye Dirk Behlau

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The new DIAMOND KOBRA album out 09/04/2021. Preorder now on Neon Green Vinyl & Cassette at www.diamondkobra.com

"Diamond Kobra is probably one of the most interesting

and unique things to happen to synth music recently"

Night City Vinyl, New York

Featuring international special guest like Phil Soussan (Ex-Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol), Marcus Siepen (Blind Guardian), Johanna Sadonis (Lucifer), Chris Amott (Dark Tranquillity, Ex-Arch Enemy), Joey Concepcion (Ex-Sanctuary, The Absence), Caroline “Rippy” Portillo (Ex-Tito & Tarantula, The Division Men), Laura Scarborough, Nicke Andersson (Lucifer, The Hellacopters), JM (Psychopunch), Tommy Geiger (ex-Palast), J.Spencer Portillo (The Division Men), K.D. Johansen (Supercharger) and many more…

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Prologue: Return Of The Starbeast

Xenomorphz

Legends Of The Night

King Vulture

Razor Hawkz

Tower Of Babelion

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Brythonic Brawl

Comatose Love

Ephemeral Beast

Twelve Parses from Home

See You On The Other Side

Epilogue: Plasmatized

Running Time: 46.03

Cover Art by Von Maze

Art Direction & Layout by Pixeleye Industries

Rainbow Synthwave by MaxxieFactor

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Jewel & the Illusions ft. Milo Steffensen - NEON:The Synthwave Remix

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Just Enough Sexy To Match The Classy, Damn Babe!

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afterparty @ Enchantment

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CLUB PSYONIC officially opens 8th July 1PM SLT by Hemy Haber

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CLUB PSYONIC officially opens its doors as the premiere destination for retro music genres like RETROWAVE • SYNTHWAVE • DARKWAVE • NEW WAVE • SYNTHPOP • INDUSTRIAL • EBM • ITALO DISCO • HARD ROCK • 80s HITS

The party starts at 1PM SL time on Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 with DJ's NUNO BISON, HAILEYMARIE REDROSE and HEMY HABER on decks for 3 hours of Synthwave, Darksynth and Italo Disco.

Grab a Landmark HERE: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hamilton%20Bay/198/73/2479

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A Little Dazzle For Halloween, The Belle Of The Ball

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