Born in Stockholm Sweden, it was here that Marten developed an interest in becoming a rock musician after being exposed to bands such as Kiss and Iron Maiden. Marten had a passion for playing various different musical instruments but considered bass his main instrument. At the age of 16 Marten had already performed shows and recorded with various local bands but he had much bigger aspirations. He wanted to take on Hollywood. By the age of 18 Marten moved to Los Angeles to study music and 2 years later he toured the world and recorded with the hardrock band Lizzy Borden and that is just the beginning. (Continue reading below)  Also see bio at Wikipedia.org

 - LIZZY BORDEN -

For well over a decade, Marten Andersson has been the bassist for the legendary hard rock band Lizzy Borden. They have since toured the world and played with groups such as Deep Purple, Kings X, Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen, Motorhead & many more. Lizzy Borden previewed their latest CD and their world wide tour at "The Wacken Festival" in Germany, in front of 35 thousand screaming fans. Longtime Lizzy Borden fan and Multimedia genius, Todd McFarlane was enlisted to capture the essence of Lizzy Borden for the CD cover art. McFarlane is best known for his creation of Spawn and the re-creation of Spiderman as well as CD covers for Korn, Iced Earth and many more.

The New Lizzy Borden CD entitled "Appointment With Death" was just released in the U.S., Japan and Europe on Metalblade Records. Click here to order CD>

Just posted "Tomorrow Never Comes" Video

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- GEORGE LYNCH -

Marten most recently finished his fourth tour with former Dokken guitarist George Lynch and his "Lynch Mob" in which they performed a marathon 26 shows in 30 days, including a much talked about feature on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

The line-up is: George Lynch - Guitars, Marten Andersson - Bass, Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath/Dio) - Drums, Andrew Freeman - Vocals.

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- STARWOOD

Marten is a founding member and bass player of the Hollywood rock band "Starwood". The band released their debut CD "If It Ain't Broke, Break It!" worldwide on Metalblade Records (2005) to raving reviews. Their signature high energy rock has made Starwood popular after just only one album and "If it ain't broke, break it" is gathering airplay all around the World. Video's for the CD includes 'Subculture' and 'Bad Machine'.

"This is an album for anyone who kneels before the Gods for the return of carefree arena rock" states Music Connection. Metal edge magazine calls them the band to look for in 2005, Starwood "leans heavily to '70s era icons like KISS, Cheap Trick and New York Dolls, but they pummel forth in a very sleazier version of the above. The production is very raw yet polished in all the right spots making it a very strong rock record." Crave claims If Ain't Broke, Break It! boasts "an impressive old school rock feel" and hopes Starwood is "the band that brings back those Hollywood rock bands that got swept away so many years ago."

The band did a series of successful Japan concerts in November and are currently recording their follow up CD.
     

      

- LEGACY - 

Marten's solo group "Legacy" and their self-titled debut CD was released to excellent reviews. In addition to Marten, Legacy features guitarist Roadrunner Records recording guitarist Jonas Hansson (Silver Mountain, The Jonas Hansson Band, Alcatraz), vocalist Chris Roseberry and drummer Stephan Emig. Other guest musicians is instrumental shredder guitarist Joy Basu (Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, CoCo Lee), drummer Sammy J. Watson (Apex Theory, Ricky Lee Jones) and vocalist Chris Logan (MSG, Jake E. Lee).

Legacy's debut CD was recorded, mixed and completed at Master Groove Studios by Marten and Jonas, with the assistance of studio owner Dave Morse. Dave have worked with Aerosmith, Guns 'N Roses, Van Halen and Warrant.

Legacy is described as "addictive, in-your-face hard rock." Metalvault calls it "Possibly one of the best Metal records I will hear this year". WCRC 104 FM says "This CD rocks. Its like Malmsteen meets Krokus meets nothing you ever heard before, a high octane metal fest", Hardradio calls it “Very cool stuff! Check it out", KNAC says "Legacy delivers straight-forward, honest, melodic rock with some great guitar playing".

Press coverage included larger magazine interviews and articles in publications such as Burrn, Guitar Magazine, Bass player Magazine, Hon-doo, American, Scandinavian, German and various other magazines around the world. (More Press/reviews)
  

   
 
  

- JONAS HANSSON BAND -

Marten recorded two CD's entitled "Second to None" (1996) and "The Rocks" (2000) with "The Jonas Hansson Band" (Roadrunner Records). Jonas Hansson Band featured members from bands such as Alice Cooper, Alcatraz, Marty Friedman Band (Megadeth) and Silver Mountain.

J.H.B. filmed a popular video, this video has been shown extensively on TV in Japan and various other television shows throughout Asia and Europe.  The J.H.B. project was featured in European and Japanese publications such as Burrn!, Guitar Player, and Young Guitar.
       

 

Jonas Hansson Band
Jonas Hansson Band
 

- JOY BASU -

Marten is performing bass tracks on guitarist Joy Basu's second instrumental CD (as well as various live appearances with Joy Basu over the years.) Joy Basu has performed and recorded with Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, CoCo Lee and members of Dio, Dweezil Zappa and Billy Idol.

  
- MAKE LABEL CONTACT  BOOK-

Marten is the author of the book "Make Label Contact/The Ultimate Source Directory" a reference and musicians guide, aimed towards musicians for record companies and demo submissions (Published by SCI Publishing.) This book is widely considered to be the guide guide for any musician.
 

Make Label Contact
Make Label Contact

- ADDITIONAL INFO -

Marten reviews adult movies in Hustler Magazine   

Marten has been a guest Rockstar XXX movie reviewer in Hustler and OUI Magazine.

His acting credits in movies and Television include "Sweet Justice" (Melissa Gilbert), Rock N' Roll Detective (NBC Pilot), "Midnight Heat", "The Net", "Divas" and "To the end of Times".

     

Marten was featured in SPCA's "Hollywood Pet Celebrity Calendar" together with famous actors and models such as Donna Peele, Fabio, Alison Eastwood (Clint Eastwoods daughter), Ally Walker (Profiler) and Robert Culp among others. This calendar is very affordable and the proceeds goes to charity.

Marten holds bass clinics/music seminars, performs at music trade shows and gives a limited number of private lessons whenever possible. (For information and inquires, fill out the form).

Marten's musical gear consists of ESP Basses and Guitars, Michael Kelly Acoustic Basses, Nady wireless Systems, Genz Benz, Ampeg, EBS, Ovation Acoustic Guitars, Genz Benz, Morley Pedals, Hipshot D Tuners, Sans Amp, Line 6, & Hamer 12 Strings, Dean Markley, Levy Straps, Badass Bridges, Toontrack Drum Software, Reed Kotler Software. (See gear page for more).

Andersson is involved with charity organizations for breast cancer, animal welfare and resides in the Los Angeles area.  Feel free to send Marten a message. We can't promise that he will answer every email, but he will do his best! (This website is maintained by Snake City Music).

Also see: Marten bio on Wikipedia.org
 

 

 

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"The harder you work, the luckier you get"

"Hell, how lucky am I to get paid to do my hobby!!"

-Marten Andersson

 

"I'm not the new Billy Sheehan. I am Marten Andersson. There's only one Billy Sheehan and he is awesome"

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