Some of Sweden’s most experienced metal musicians have assembled to spread metal to the people. That’s the mission of the mighty Poodles from Sweden. “We want to make people feel great and powerful. In a world full of powerful people, cowardice and lies does not exist” says Jakob, lead singer of The Poodles.

The Poodles is more than just a normal rock act. During the years the members have worked in different contexts with international celebrities like Motörhead, Whitesnake, Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy and Swedish colleagues like Europe and Candlemass.

In the fall of 2005 the current line-up was completed and in the spring of 2006 The Poodles competed in the Swedish version of the „Eurovision Song Contest“, which also marked their big break-through in their native Sweden.

The debut album “Metal Will Stand Tall” was released in Sweden & Finland in May 2006 and soon after in Japan by King Records, IROND in Russia and the CIS. It topped the Swedish sales charts, and the debut single “Night Of Passion” sold gold in Sweden after just three weeks. It has now sold platinum and was also for three weeks in a row the most downloaded song! The second single from the album was the title track “Metal Will Stand Tall”. It featured guest vocals of Tess, member of the disco group Alcazar, who sings in the duet with Jakob and is also featured in the video clip. It entered the single chart at number two one week after release and had sold gold after a month! Also a third single, ”Song For You” was released and hit gold status.

”Metal Will Stand Tall” features songs by some of the most well known songwriters in the world such as Holly Knight (Tina Turner, Aerosmith, Kiss etc) and others.

During 2006 the band played over 100 concerts in Sweden and in January 2007, as they went on tour with Hammerfall and Krokus playing 31 shows in 18 countries in only 35 days, ”Metal Will Stand Tall” was released in Europe by AFM Records.

Already on April 25 The Poodles released ”Seven Seas”, the first single from the upcoming new album ”Sweet Trade”. Just like the debut album ”Metal Will Stand Tall”, it’s been produced by Matti Alfonzetti and Johan Lyander. The song ”Seven Seas” is written by Jakob Samuel, Jonas Reingold and Peter Stormare. (Peter Stormare – the actor in inter alia Prison Break, Fargo and Jurassic Park).

Now the canons are loaded for the next journey, the sails hoisted under the dawn sky.
On September 19 the album ”Sweet Trade” is released in Sweden as well as in 30 European countries, Russia and Japan, and on October 12 The Poodles embark on another crusade - showing Europe the sweet trade of heavy metal!