– LIZZY BORDEN –
For over two decades, Marten Andersson was the bassist for the legendary shock rock band Lizzy Borden. Lizzy Borden have recorded and toured the world, shared stages worldwide with groups such as Deep Purple, Motley Crue, Dream Theater, Journey, Guns and Roses, Ozzy, Wasp, Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen, Motorhead & many many more. The band Lizzy Borden released 9 albums in total, hitting the top 100 4 times in the U.S., including sellout tours across the U.S. South America, Canada, Europe and Asia.
Longtime Lizzy Borden fan and Multimedia genius, Todd McFarlane was enlisted to capture the essence of Lizzy Borden for the “Deal with the Devil” tour (and 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.
Marten’s last Lizzy Borden CD, entitled “Appointment With Death” was released World-wide on Metalblade Records. The CD features guest appearances by George Lynch (Dokken/Lynch mob), Dave Meniketti (Y&T), Corey Beaulieu (Trivium), Jonas Hansson (Silver Mountain) among 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” was in heavy rotation on TV and radio stations around the world.
From 2007-2014, Lizzy Borden has traveled extensively around the world performing in over 28+ Countries, in addition to European Touring and Festivals the band toured North American with both Wasp and Finnish Monster Rockers Lordi. Lizzy Borden was the first-day headliner of the two-day Keep It True XII festival in Lauda-Königshofen Germany. Lizzy Borden wrapped up 2012 at Gods of Metal open air (Italy), Hellfest Open Air (France) together with Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, Guns N’ Roses and many others.
Worldwide festival appearances included Sweden Rock Festival (Sweden), Kobetasonik (Spain), Wacken Open Air (Germany), Bang Your Head (Germany), Alcatraz Metal Festival, Leyendas del Rock, Elsrock Festival, Heaven and Hell Metal Fest, Christmas Metal Festival, Hard Rock Hell Festival. North American festival appearances included Rocklahoma and Rock Gone Wild.
In 2013, Lizzy Borden launched “30th Years of American Metal Tour“, the tour went on from 3 full years (2013-2016). The band performed at festivals such as 70,000 tons of Metal cruise (USA), Skogsrojet festival (Sweden) continuing the tour into South America, South Korea, North America and Europe, ending the tour in November in Moscow, Russia.