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New album Shape of Thing To Come out now!!!

About Me

Backlash was formed 1998 in Lidköping, Sweden by Oskar Lygner, Niklas Lundquist and Erik Torstensson. They had previously been involved in another project and felt it was time to move on. During the making of their first EP, Erik left the group to pursue another career. The first EP, EP1, was in fact nothing more than the bands first demo and was thought to be of such quality that Telegram records released it in the fall of 1999 without modifications to the sound or production. Due to differences in opinions about the future of the group Backlash searched for another label while working on their next album.In the fall of 2000, Malin Andersson joined the team adding some fresh new vocals to their sound. The album Impetus was released on Memento Materia on August 28th 2001 and was hugely acclaimed by the press. Impetus was nominated as best newcomer and album of 2001 at the Scandinavian Alternative Music Awards. The success of the album was followed by live shows in Scandinavia and Europe.The single Blind was released in april 2002 and also featured a Backlash version of the Front 242 hit "Operating tracks". In the late autumn of 2002 Malin left the group as the sound moved on in another direction. She was replaced by Erik who re-joined the group as lead vocalist. Erik had been performing live in different acts during the past years and together with Oskar and Niklas he now felt it was time to push Backlash further in their pursuit of a new electronic sound and stage act.In the Christmas Holidays 2002 they tried some vocals on the new material and found what they had been looking for. The first track from this session to be recorded and released was Lodestar and it marked the direction of the new album Heliotrope. Their first live performance with Erik as lead singer took place at Electric Christmas and was a blazing success as the group had also enhanced their liveshow with bass player and extra back vocalist Anders Torstensson.The group is currently in rehearsal to finetune the performance as a livegroup for the Escalator Tour. The album is recently relesed in Europe and will soon also be released in the US.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/14/2006
Band Website: backlashmedia.se
Band Members: Oskar Lygner, Niklas Lundqvist and Erik Thorstensson
Influences: ULtravox, Devo, Front 242, NIN, Goldfrapp, Human League, Kraftwerk...
Sounds Like: Depeche Mode, Ultravox, Goldfrapp...
Record Label: www.mementomteria.se / www.wtiirecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Status reports on new mtrl.

I will here on try to report something every week about the status on the work of the fortcoming CD. The official Backlash website www.baclashmedia.se has not been updated during the past months, whic...
Posted by backlash on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:27:00 PST

Whiskey, Nord Modular and Chicken Sallad

Tonight Ill make tweak some sounds out of my Nord Modular, then do some great music, maybe take a few glasses of Whiskey and then eat some fresh Chicken sallad. Cheers! Oskar  ...
Posted by backlash on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:12:00 PST

PromoOnly May 06'

PromoOnly May 06'  Apr 17, 2006 As you probably know, Heliotrope was relesed in the US a few months ago. We are now very happy to anounce that the Hunter mix of Blind is als...
Posted by backlash on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:43:00 PST