[3] Carter grew up in Hemel Hempstead in England, his mother was an Irish dance teacher and his father was a DJ.

He formed his first band called All Night Drive at sixteen, where he was given the choice to either learn an instrument or become a frontman, to which he decided to be the group's vocalist.

After high school, he went to art college, however he dropped out as he felt he was "not learning anything", which led to him pursuing a career as a tattoo artist.

[6] Carter formed Gallows in 2005, influenced by the music of hardcore punk bands Black Flag, Minor Threat, Swing Kids and JR Ewing.

[9] In September, Gallows toured with Lethal Bizzle alongside additional opening acts Poison the Well and Blackhole.

[14] Carter formed Pure Love in 2011, with The Hope Conspiracy and The Suicide File guitarist Jim Carroll, after the pair had run into one another multiple times at local New York City bars.

[2] The pair bonded over how neither felt a connection anymore to hardcore and punk, with Carter saying they simply wanted to "play fun rock’n’roll music without any of the stress".

[20] In a review by Metal Hammer, writer Thea de Gallier, described how Carter "may be a grown-up and a dad now, but he’s still capable of being a figurehead for the pissed-off youth who are too young to have had the Sex Pistols".

[25] In an interview with Kerrang!, Carter stated that much of the album had been based around the alcoholism that he had experienced after breaking his straight edge lifestyle of twelve years on Christmas 2015.

[29] On 19 September, he was involved in a life-threatening car crash in Devon, which led to the cancellation of the first week of the Rattlesnakes' scheduled U.S.

[32] On 3 June 2024, it was announced that Carter would perform with Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, and Paul Cook in a fundraiser reunion for the Sex Pistols playing two shows on 13 and 14 August.