AC4 is a Swedish

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band from

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, Sweden.

Refused Refused (also known as the Refused) is a Swedish hardcore punk band originating from Umeå and formed in 1991. Refused is composed of vocalist Dennis Lyxzén, guitarist Kristofer Steen, drummer David Sandström, and bassist Magnus Flagge. Guit ...

members

Dennis Lyxzén Sven Olov Dennis Lyxzén (born June 19, 1972) is a Swedish singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for influential Swedish hardcore punk band Refused, as well as the bands INVSN and Fake Names. He is also a former member of bands ...

and

David Sandström David Sandström (born 2 January 1975) is the drummer for hardcore punk group Refused. After Refused broke up, Sandström and the other members of Refused worked on a project entitled TEXT and released one album. Then David went on to do solo w ...

had been talking about starting a new band for a long time. In the spring of 2008

Karl Backman Karl Backman, (born 27 October 1970, Umeå) is a Swedes, Swedish artist and musician. Music Backman became involved in Punk rock in 1980 and started his first punk band the Boredom Brothers in 1982 when he was squatting in Umeå. He formed ...

had written songs for the new band and they started to rehearse. Jens Nordén had played with Lyxzén in pre-Refused straight edge hardcore band

Step Forward Step Forward was a Swedish hardcore punk band founded in 1989 in Umeå, Sweden by Dennis Lyxzén and his friends, Toft Stade, Jens Nordén and Henrik Jansson. Step Forward was one of the first hardcore punk bands in Sweden that held on to the ...

(1987-1991) and since 1990 with Backman in punk band The Vectors. The "AC" in the name is the regional code for the

Västerbotten Västerbotten (), known in English as West Bothnia or Westrobothnia, is a province (''landskap'') in the north of Sweden, bordering Ångermanland, Lapland, North Bothnia, and the Gulf of Bothnia. It is known for the cheese named after the provi ...

province where Umeå is located. The first show was at a squat on Parkgatan in Umeå on May 5, 2008. In May 2008 someone posted a live song on

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. It got on

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's playlist and had over 14,000 hits the first week. They performed at

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and Umeå Punkfest in 2008. In 2009 they performed at

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and released the self-titled debut album on Lyxzén's label

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. In 2010 their European tour took them around their native Sweden, as well as Norway, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Austria, France, Italy, England and Wales. They also released the Umeå Hardcore 7-inch EP in Europe, a special 7-inch for Australia only and the debut album came out in America. AC4 initially refused to do interviews with mainstream media and would only answer questions from fanzine writers who were under the age of 18. To promote their Australian tour in April, 2011, Dennis conducted a number of interviews with the local press, including Melbourne radio show Bullying The Jukebox. While on tour in Australia a short documentary film about the band entitled "A few minutes with AC4" was filmed, along with a promotional video for the song "Won't Bow Down" from their debut album. In May 2012 the band announced that Sandström had been replaced by Christoffer Röstlund Jonsson (DS-13) and that the recording of a second album had begun. The album ''Burn The World'' was released in March 2013 on

records and

Deathwish Inc. Deathwish, Inc. is an American independent record label conceived by Jacob Bannon of Converge and Tre McCarthy in 2000. Their first release was '' Deeper the Wound'', a split album between Converge and Japanese band Hellchild on April 23, 2001. D ...

AC4 "Burn The World" LP out soon from a partnership of Deathwish & Ny Vag The band is also performing at some upcoming festivals including

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on a spring 2013 tour. A week before the tour the band announced that Nordén had suddenly left AC4, but is being replaced by their producer Fredrik Lyxzén.

Members

;Current members *

–

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...

(2008–present) *

–

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

(2008–present) *Christoffer Röstlund Jonsson – bass, backing vocals (2012–present) *Fredrik Lyxzén –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

(2013–present) 13-04-27 Groezrock AC4 01.jpg, Dennis Lyxzén 13-04-27 Groezrock AC4 03.jpg, Fredrik Lyxzén 13-04-27 Groezrock AC4 04.jpg, Christoffer Röstlund Jonsson 13-04-27 Groezrock AC4 02.jpg, Karl Backman ; Former members *

– bass, backing vocals (2008-2012) *Jens Nordén –

(2008-2013)

Discography

Albums

*''AC4'' **CD/LP

(Ny Våg No. 123), Sweden 2009 **LP Deranged Records (DY#161), Canada 2010 **CD Shock Entertainment (CTX611CD), Australia 2011 *'' Burn the World'' **CD/LP Ny Våg records (Ny Våg No. 133), Sweden 2013 **LP

(DW145), USA 2013

EPs

*split 7-inch w/ Surprise Sex Attack **7" Aniseed records (Aniseed 001) 2010 *''Umeå Hardcore'' **7" P-Trash records (p.trash62) 2010

Compilations

*''Umeå Vråljazz Giganter'' **CD/LP Ny Våg records (Ny Våg No. 120) 2010

Music videos

* "Curva del Diablo" (2013) * "Burn the World" (2013)

References

External links

Official AC4 Facebook

Official AC4 Myspace

Rockfoto AC4

Ny Våg

Triple R interview with Dennis
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