CODE is a brand new band consisting of Sherwood Ball (vocals, guitar; JAY GRAYDON), Ola af Trampe (guitar; ex GRAND ILLUSION) and Anders Rydholm (bass, keyboards, guitars; ex GRAND ILLUSION).

One day, driving in his car, Anders Rydholm heard Sherwood Ball sing an old Jay Graydon tune on the radio (Holding on to Love) and started to wonder what Sherwood was doing these days. After exchanging a couple of e-mails, Sherwood was convinced to sing on the album. He says: “When I got the music via email from Anders, I was expecting that I would be listening to junk, not knowing Anders or his music. When I played tracks, I was blown away. I had always wanting to sing in a band like Toto or Giant and this was exactly of that quality.”

A couple of months later, Anders and guitarist Ola af Trampe visited Sherwood at his home in Studio City, California. Their meeting became the genesis for the creation of the band, CODE. The name CODE is referring to an honorable agreement, not computer programming or secret codes, etc. Anders states: “We would like to establish a new ROCK code. A standard to create by.” So many times, the reason for failure in relationships (from business, groups, etc.) is the lack of clear understanding and mutual agreement.

Featured on all the songs on this debut CD by CODE is world famous drummer, Gregg Bissonette (David Lee Roth, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Santana, Toto etc.)

Anders and Sherwood share the same vision of creating the best music possible and to take the Melodic Rock genre to the next level. The songwriting being paramount, they have not been satisfied until they wrote and rewrote 40 songs to come up with 12 truly great songs. Anders and Sherwood both agreed that what has been missing in the Melodic Rock genre’ has been great songs! It’s been the goal to create music they will be proud of for life.

The ambition for the future of CODE is to not only bring the music to the people by performing live, but to establish the band and it’s music as a staple and standard for the melodic genre of today and tomorrow. Quite a tall order, but someone’s gotta do it. Recordings have taken place in Växjö, Sweden and Hollywood, California, USA. The album “The enemy within” will be released on January 22nd, 2007.

Watch out for CODE.