THE POODLES new album

le 3eme album en prépa s'appelera : Clash Of The Elements.

Swedish rockers THE POODLES have posted the following "2008 recap" on their official web site:

"Another year has come to an end, another great year for THE POODLES. A lot of things, both good and bad, have happened and even greater things are soon to come.

"So what did we really do during 2008? Well, we started out in great style by doing our first performance in the Swedish game show 'Bingolotto', where we, for the first, and only time so far, performed the song 'We Are One'.

"In early February we joined forces with our good friend and fellow artist E-TYPE to, once again, compete in the Swedish edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. This time with the song 'Line Of Fire', which was written by E-Type and Jakob [Samuel; THE POODLES singer, also ex-THE RING, TALISMAN, JEKYLL & HYDE]. So this happy bunch went down to Gothenburg and then on to the northern city of Kiruna to defend our colors.

"When the Eurovision was all taken care of, we set our sails and headed out to meet the fans in Europe. During March and April we played a number of fantastic shows in Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy and Switzerland. With us on the journey, as special guest, was the band JADED HEART. Together we rolled across Europe, had a lot of laughs (smiskfest!) and were blown away by many great crowds along the way.

"When we came back home after this very successful trek, we were all shocked by the sad news that our great friend and ally, guitar player Pontus Norgren, had decided to leave the band to seek his fortune elsewhere (HAMMERFALL). A bit taken aback, of course, but still determined to keep the fire burning we started the search for a suitable replacement. Not an easy task but in the end we found what we had been looking for, after a period of auditions and tryouts, we were very happy to welcome Henrik Bergqvist (ex-TIAMAT) into our family. After some intense rehearsing, Henrik was ready and very eager to meet the fans. The premiere of our summer tour and also Henrik's first live appearance with the band was on June 8th at the Sweden Rock Festival. A very intense period followed with a lot of festival shows mostly in Sweden but also with a few stops in Germany. After the nerve-racking experience at the Sweden Rock Festival, Henrik blended into the band in such a great way it now feels like he’s always been a part of it.

"A few highlights of the summer included a performance at the classic TV show 'Allsång på Skansen' and at 'Sommarkrysset'. We were also given the great honor to record and perform the official Swedish Olympic theme song of the 2008 Olympic games, 'Raise The Banner'. This was, of course, in focus during the summer and the song reached the No. 1 position in the Swedish singles chart in August.

"The fall has been a very productive period for the band even though the public appearances have been few. Enough music to fill three albums has been written and out of all this music we have selected 14 songs that will appear on our next masterpiece.

"In late November we entered the studio and the recordings will continue, probably until the end of January. We are aiming for a release somewhere in April-May and once that CD hits the stores we are most certainly going to hit the road again."

THE POODLES has set "Clash Of The Elements" as the title of its third album. The group, which recently parted ways with its record label Lionheart International after a three-year partnership, is once again working with producer Mats Valentin. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "One Out Of Ten", "Caroline", "Like There's No Tomorrow" and "7 Days & 7 Nights".

Jakob was the first guy to be thrown back into the harsh reality of recording an album. After a few days of well earned rest over Christmas he has been keeping busy in the studio laying down his magical vocals.




And the result is fantastic. (Seems like he’s kind of enjoying it too, don’t you think?)

The studio has also been occupied by some wonderful and talented people playing instruments we have no clue how to handle, like violins and cellos and such. Some awesome strings to the song “One Out Of Ten” were recorded this Tuesday.



Yesterday the piano part was also sent over and put into place all the way from Italy where it was recorded by none other than Nicolo Fragile, best known as the keyboard player in Gotthard and who has also had a big part in writing this masterpiece.


Now when everything is in place “One Out Of Ten” and also the song “Caroline” have been sent off for mixing. The mixing of these two songs will take place in Vancouver, Canada. Why you might ask, well, because in Vancouver there’s a guy called Mike Fraser who’s going to do the mixing. Who is that you might ask, well, Mike Fraser is a world class mixing engineer who has worked with bands like AC/DC, Metallica, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, Thunder, Bryan Adams, Guns N’ Roses, Whitesnake and the list goes on forever. Now he’s going to get his fingers really dirty and mix a few tracks on the upcoming album from The Poodles. We’re psyched, hope you are too!

STRINGS

The recordings are moving along very smoothly and I thought I would share with you a few more pictures from the strings session the other day.
















Looks beautiful, don't you think? And let me tell you it sounds beautiful too.


Still a lot of stuff left to do but we're getting there, slowly but surely.


Rock on!

RECORDING CONTINUES!




You may wonder what's going in the Poodles camp right now. You may think we're all sitting around doing nothing but let me tell you, nothing could be further from the truth! Still a lot of work to do in the studio, guitars, bass, vocals and alot of other stuff as well.



I know I have mentioned before that the recordings would be done by the end of January and I guess I lied when I said that cause there are just two more days left and we won't be done by then. No need to be alarmed though, the plan for the release still remains. We're working our butts of but we still don't want to rush things because we want to bring you the super extraordinary album that you all deserve!!

And to get a first taste of it all you won't have to wait very long.

Rock on!!