Karl Backman, (born 27 October 1970,
Umeå
Umeå ( , , , locally ; ; ; ; ) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County.
Situated on the Ume River, Umeå is the largest Urban areas in Sweden, locality in Norrland and the t ...
) is a
Swedish artist and musician.
Music
Backman became involved in Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced sh ...
in 1980 and started his first punk band the Boredom Brothers in 1982 when he was squatting in Umeå.
He formed the punk band The Vectors in 1990, with whom he was the lead guitarist and part vocalist throughout their career. The Vectors split up in 2008.
Backman was also the lead guitarist and the main songwriter in AC4, a hardcore punk band he started in 2008 with ex-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. Guita ...
members Dennis Lyxzén and David Sandström
David Sandström (born 2 January 1975) is a Swedish musician best known as the drummer for the hardcore punk group Refused. After Refused first broke up in 1998, he and the other members worked on a project entitled TEXT and released one album. ...
.
Sometime in the late summer of 2013 Backman formed a band called The T-55's, as AC4 was on a break, and in late 2016 he started his current band Acid Blood.
He is interviewed about his views on artistic expression in the Australian documentary film ''A few minutes with AC4''.
Art
Backman's paintings are often colourful and large in scale, covering political, religious and sexual themes and is inspired by the Punk aesthetic. He has designed covers for many records and is also a prolific member of the international art project '' Artmoney''.
Backman has worked internationally with many pornographic actresses including Satine Phoenix
Satine Phoenix is an American comic book illustrator, cosplayer, and model. She is the co-creator, with writer R.K. Syrus, of the graphic novel ''New Praetorians'' and the founder of CelebrityChariD20 (formerly CelebrityCharityDnD).
Career
A ...
, Ashley Blue
Oriana Small, known professionally as Ashley Blue, is an American pornographic actress. She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame, has hosted her own Vivid Radio show and written for '' Hustler'' magazine.
In 2011, she published a memoir of her c ...
, Layla Rivera, Summer Luv, Drew Allen, Barbii Bucxxx and May Ling Su for noted exhibitions at ''The Museum of Porn in Art'' in Zurich
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, 2011 and 2012.
Backman and his girlfriend visited the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
On 26 April 1986, the no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded. With dozens of direct casualties, it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated ...
site in 2010 with a documentary news team from AFP. As of 2013, he was working on an exhibition of paintings based on the photographs he took there.
Discography
; Acid Blood
*2017: ''Dagger Eyes'' (JanML Records, Germany)
*2019: ''Acid Blood'' (JanML Records, Germany)
;The T-55's
*2014: ''Power Up'' (JanML Records, Germany)
*2014: ''Split with Mary's Kids'' (Strange Magic Records/AM Records, USA)
; AC4
*2009: '' AC4'' ( Ny Våg, Scandinavia / Deranged, USA 2010 / Shock Entertainment, Australia 2011)
*2010: ''AC4 / SSA'' (Aniseed, Australia)
*2010: ''Umeå Hardcore'' (P.Trash)
*2013: '' Burn The World'' (Ny Våg, Scandinavia / 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 ...
, USA)
;The Vectors
*1996: ''Fuck MTV'' (New Lifeshark)
*1998: ''The Vectors'' (New Lifeshark)
*2000: ''Rape the Pope'' (Rabid Alligator)
*2003: ''Still Ill'' ( Busted Heads Records)
*2011: ''Pigs and Parasites'' (SIK Records)[
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References
External links
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Official Facebook
Official AC4 Facebook
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20th-century Swedish painters
20th-century Swedish male artists
Swedish male painters
21st-century Swedish painters
21st-century Swedish male artists
Swedish punk rock musicians
Punk rock guitarists
Punk rock singers
Swedish rock guitarists
1970 births
People from Umeå
Living people
21st-century Swedish guitarists
21st-century Swedish male singers
Musicians from Västerbotten County
Artists from Västerbotten County