A heavily Grunge influenced outfit led by ex-BAM BAM BOYS, JAGGED EDGE and Scott Gorham's WESTERN FRONT vocalist Matti Alfonzetti, having returned home to Sweden Alfonzetti recorded demos with TALISMAN before uniting with erstwhile ERRATIC TALE guitarist George Bravo, a Chilean exile, to form SKINTRADE. The initial line up also included former GLORY drummer Jonas Östman.

The band's first single 'One By One' actually included the same cut on the B side but sung in Spanish. SKINTRADE added drummer Andi Chase in mid 1995, although Alfonzetti and guitarist Stefan Bergström quit after the second album and SKINTRADE added vocalist Francis 'Bravo' Rencoret to bring the line-up back up to strength.

Alfonzetti resurfaced in 2000 billed as merely ALFONZETTI for a solo album 'Ready'. Bergstrom and Ostman would guest. The singer gained national acclaim in February 2006 with spoof Rock band THE POODLES. This band won one of the four qualifying rounds in Sweden's competition to find an entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest with their '80s track 'Night Of Passion', a track co-written by Alfonzetti. THE POODLES in fact comprised a cast of seasoned veterans and involved vocalist Jakob Samuel, of THE RING, TALISMAN and JEKYLL & HYDE, guitarist PONTUS NORGREN, from GREAT KING RAT, DAMAGE DONE, THE RING and TALISMAN, the STEAMROLLER and LION'S SHARE credited bassist Pontus Egberg and drummer Christian Lundqvist.