The Cobra Killer duo of Gina V. D'Orio

Gina V. D'Orio

Gina V. D'Orio is a producer, songwriter and singer.she is the main former vocalist from German Digital Hardcore band EC8OR and member of Cobra Killer.-Biography:...

 and Annika Trost began as part of Alec Empire

Alec Empire

Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...

's Digital hardcore

Digital hardcore

Digital hardcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk incorporating influences from electronic music. Digital hardcore fuses elements of hardcore punk with various forms of electronic music...

 movement. Both were part of other bands signed to Empire's Digital Hardcore Recordings

Digital Hardcore Recordings

Digital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...

 label—Gina was in EC8OR

EC8OR

EC8OR is a German digital hardcore band founded in 1995 by Patric Catani and Gina V. D'Orio and signed by Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore Recordings record label...

, and Annika was in Shizuo

Shizuo

Shizuo was the Digital Hardcore Recordings manifestation of David Hammer, with occasional vocals and an animated stage show by Annika Trost.-Biography::...

. Cobra Killer was arguably one of the most playful DHR bands, in contrast to the revolutionary bombast of most.

When Empire's label cut back on its bands, many of the DHR groups folded, but D'Orio and Trost kept going. They have released four albums and are currently on the Monika Enterprise

Monika Enterprise

Monika Enterprise is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany, founded in 1997 by Gudrun Gut.In 2001, Wallpaper magazine described the label's musical style as "[o]ccupying a twilight zone between electronic pop, easy listening and bedsit angst" and "[s]pearheading a new generation of,...

 label.

Albums

• Cobra Killer (1998)
• The Third Armpit (2002)
• 76/77 (2004)
• Das Mandolinenorchester (2005)
• Uppers & Downers (2009)

Singles

• "Right Into A Kick For More" (7") (1998)
• "Heavy Rotation" (10") (2002)
• "Heavy Rotation" (The Grossraumdiskomixes) (12") (2005)
• "Das Mandolinenorchester" (2005)