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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
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- 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 latest Lizzy Borden CD
entitled "Appointment With Death"
is out World-wide on Metalblade Records.
The CD also features guest appearances by George Lynch (Dokken/Lynch mob),
Jonas Hansson (Silver Mountain), Dave Meniketti (Y&T), Corey Beaulieu (Trivium)
among many others.
The video for
"Tomorrow Never Comes" was nominated for
video of the year and was in the Top 25 Metal Videos on MTV's Headbangers Ball. The follow up single and video for the song "Under
Your Skin" is currently in rotation
on MTV’s Headbangers ball, Music Choice as well as radio stations around
the world.
From 2007-2009 Lizzy Borden
has toured extensively, in addition to their headlining shows the band did
North American touring with both Wasp and Finnish Monster Rockers Lordi.
Festival appearances included Sweden Rock Festival (Sweden), Kobetasonik
festival (Spain) and Bang Your Head Festival (Germany). Lizzy Borden was
the first-day headliner of the two-day Keep It True XII festival at
Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Königshofen Germany 2009. The band performed
in 11 Countries on their European headlining tour. North American festival
appearances included Rocklahoma and Rock Gone Wild.
In 2010, Lizzy Borden announced various headlining dates in North America
and Europe including festival appearances at Wacken Open Air, Alcatraz
Metal Festival, Leyendas del Rock festival and Elsrock Festival.
News
Tour dates
Videos
Press
Releases
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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 was:
George Lynch - Guitars,
Marten Andersson - Bass,
Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath/Dio)
- Drums, Andrew Freeman - Vocals.
Also see:
Upcoming Shows
Picture gallery
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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 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 will soon complete their follow up CD. (no release
date set yet) .
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- LEGACY
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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 has
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)
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- 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 many European and
Japanese publications
such as Burrn!, Guitar Player, and
Young Guitar.
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Jonas Hansson Band
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- 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.
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- 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 for any musician.
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Marten
has been a guest Rockstar XXX movie reviewer in
Hustler and OUI Magazine.
Marten's 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".
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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, Carvin Bass Amps,
Michael Kelly Acoustic Basses, Nady, EBS, Dean Markley, Ovation
Acoustic Guitars,
Zoom, Morley
Pedals, Hipshot D Tuners, Sans Amp, Line 6, Levy
Straps, Babicz 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
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"I'm not the new
Billy Sheehan. I
am Marten
Andersson. There's only one Billy Sheehan and
he is awesome"
-Marten
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