THE POODLES BIOGRAPHY!

The band was formed in the fall of 2005 and six months later they participated in the Swedish leg of Eurovision song contest. The debut album, 'Metal Will Stand Tall', was released shortly thereafter in Sweden, Japan and Russia. It climbed to the top of the Swedish charts and the first single, 'Night Of Passion', went gold after only three weeks!! Not long after, it achieved platinum status and was the most downloaded song for three weeks straight!! "Metal Will Stand Tall" features songs written by some world's premiere song writters such as Holly Knight.

On the 25th April 2007, they released the first single from their follow up album "Sweet Trade". The song 'Seven Seas' was written together by the famous actor Peter Stormare. On the song 'Seven Seas' he portrays the pirate 'Black Sam' who sings a duet with the lead singer Jake Samuel.

"Sweet Trade" was released in Sept. 2007 in Sweden, all of Europe and in Russia. The second single, 'Streets Of Fire', became the band's biggest selling single to date, achieveing double-platinum status! Shortly after the release of their second effort the band headed out another tour over Europe, this time with the Swiss hard rockers GOTTHARD!! The response from crowd and organizers alike made it possible for the band to head out on their own head-line tour in the spring of 2008 with 17 sold-out shows!!

In spring of 2008, The Poodles participated a second time in the Eurovision song contest. This time they allied themselves with multi-platinum selling artist "E-Type", performing the song "Line Of Fire" which also raced the charts and was featured on an extended edition of 'Sweet Trade' that was re-released in the second quarter of 2008.

Late in the spring of 2008, the band proudly accepted the invitation to record and perform the official Swedish theme song for the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008! The result was "Raise The Banner", which was released on the 15th of July and was the number one hit single in Sweden for most of August 2008.

In May 2008 the guitarist, Pontus Norgren, decided to leave the band and the new guitarist who replaced P. Norgren was Henrik Bergqvist (Tiamat, Southfork). On June 6th, at the Sweden Rock Festival, Henrik made his debut with the band. Face with the important task of planning and recording their third album The Poodles choose to make a fresh start. The band felt that they needed to take charge of their career by finding new working partners who could better develop the band's objectives. They got out of their recording contract with Lionheart Intern. to release their third album on their own label, Rosehip Alley Records. The Poodles decided for the producer, and the name of him was Mats Valentin who had previously worked with the band on the two hit singles "Line Of Fire" & "Raise The Banner"!

The band also contracted legendary producer-mixer Mike Fraser to mix the album. Even though everyone in the band grown up listening to Mike's productions, they were stunned with the result!! "Clash Of The Elements" started in November 2008 and saw the release of the first single, 'One Out Of Ten' on the 16th of February 2009.

Nowadays, the Poodles and Frontiers records joined their forces and they are pleased to announce the release of THE POODLES live package on November 5th 2010. The package will include the live-CD "No Quarter" and the live-DVD "In The Flesh". There will also be a limited release of a luxury packaging, "No Quarter - Special Edition", including the live-CD and the live-DVD in a luxury digi-pak edition.


Discography : "Metal Will Stand Tall" / "Sweet Trade" / "Clash Of The Elements" / "No Quarter"
You can visit The Poodles at their official site : http://www.poodles.se/index.php