Backslide

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Backslide
General information
origin Freiburg , Germany
Genre (s) Punk rock
founding 1998
Website www.backslide-youth.de
Current occupation
Freddy Marrone
Flo Lupus
Guitar, vocals
 Marsen angler
Dominik Tamère
former members
Guitar, vocals
 Jojo (Tora Bora) (until 2004)
bass
 Gab (until 2008)
Drums
 Boris (until 2000)
guitar
 Rob (until 2001)

Backslide is a punk band founded in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1998 .

Band history

Backslide cultivated a radical street punk image in their early phase , which was expressed in the outfit as well as in the sometimes provocative demeanor of the band as well as in the often socially critical and aggressive text messages. Just one year after the demo CD Oi! Fuck and Destroy a 7 '' EP of the same name was released on the Austrian label DSS Records .

The debut album Join the Backslide Youth , which was produced by Toxoplasma singer Wally Walldorf and released in 2001 on the Duisburg label Plastic Bomb Records , quickly found attention both in the punk and skinhead scenes of the time and sold accordingly well. The open song Teenage Riot contained on it later reached number 1 on the reader charts of a popular German punk fanzine. Further songs from the second album Terror Age ( Social Bomb Records / Cargo Records ), released in 2003, were also released in other European countries as well as in the USA and Southeast Asia in the following period. Walldorf also produced here again.

In terms of concerts, Backslide were rare in their hometown from the start and performed far more often outside of Freiburg. Among other things, they played their first Germany tour in 2002 with the Nuremberg punk band Rejected Youth , performed several times at the Force Attack Festival in Rostock and played as the opening act for the Scottish punk band The Exploited on their European tour in 2003.

From 2005 on, Backslide concentrated on working on a new studio album. However, a setback within the band due to illness delayed production considerably, and completion was only to take place years later. In 2012 Backslide returned to the stage with new songs and since then they have presented a style of music that ranges between post-punk and sleaze rock . On May 3, 2013 Backslide released their third studio album entitled A Dark and Blackened Night on the German label Concrete Jungle Records . The album was produced by Philipp Rauenbusch (ex- Reamonn ), the sound engineer was Christoph Brandes ( Common Grave , Dimorph).

Marsen Angler replaced original member Jojo (Tora Bora) in 2004 and has since been on vocals and guitar with Freddy Marrone. In addition to backslide, Marsen was also the front man of the internationally successful metal band Fear My Thoughts , is a founding member of the prog rocker Pigeon Toe and singer of Long Distance Calling . Dominik So-and-so, who succeeded the former bassist Gab in 2008, previously played a. a. in the Freiburg punk combo Virage Dangereux and is currently running a band project called Prisoners of Freedom. Flo Lupus played drums for Liquid Laughter until their dissolution in 2005.

Discography

  • 2000: Oi! Fuck and Destroy (7 "Vinyl EP, DSS Records / Cargo Rec )
  • 2001: Join the Backslide Youth !! (LP / CD, Plastic Bomb Records / EFA)
  • 2003: Terror Age (LP / CD, Social Bomb Records / Cargo Rec )
  • 2013: A Dark and Blackened Night (CD / Download, Concrete Jungle Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Toxoplasma. Voice of Culture, accessed November 25, 2014 .
  2. ^ The Exploited - Fuck The System. (No longer available online.) Whiskey-soda.de, April 2003, archived from the original on August 4, 2014 ; Retrieved November 25, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whiskey-soda.de
  3. ^ Rejected Youth. Laut.de , accessed on November 25, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Backslide - A decade and a half of punk rock. Tribe-online.de, accessed on November 25, 2014 .