Peter was born in September 1974. At the age of four, he got his first toy-drum kit for Christmas. Four years later he got his first real drum kit. When he was nine he started to play the recorder (flute) at "Kommunala musikskolan" (the municipal music school) to learn how to read notes but decided after a year to start taking drum lessons instead. In 1986 he joined a brass band, which played big band jazz, musicals and rock. He would remain a member for eight years. That same year his grandmother gave him a new set of drums. When Peter was 14 he formed his first hard rock band (Dammer later called Zaninez). In 1989 Christofer Malmström (Darkane) joined Zaninez. They quickly became best friends, and since then, have continued to play together. At that time Peter also bought his first twin bass drum pedal.

A big experience for Peter was hearing Dave Weckl's first solo CD "Master Plan" in 1990. Sein Reinert's playing on the Death album "Human" also made a huge impact on Peter. A bigger interest for jazz/fusion started taking form during the early nineties. In 1993 Peter heard Trilok Gurtu playing with the John McLaughlin trio and was amazed by the mixing of drums and percussion. Mr. Gurtu is still one of his biggest influences. Later that year Peter joined a percussion ensemble where he started playing other types of percussion including congas, djembe, and darbouka. He also took tabla lessons during the first five months of 1996. During this time Peter also attended afro/jazz/fusion school for a year where he learned how to improvise. Since then he has participated in two big music/theatre productions, playing percussion.



Peter has recorded and performed with several bands, mainly metal bands. The first full length CD he ever appeared on is called "Delusions" and was recorded in 1993 in Germany with the band Agretator. Peter was one of the founding members of Agretator who started out as the band Demise in 1990. Agretator played together for seven years. This band also featured Christofer Malmström (Darkane).

In 1997 he went into the studio to record "Crossing the Rubicon" with Armageddon featuring Christopher Amott from Arch Enemy. Later that year Peter was asked to join Arch Enemy on a small European tour and for the first time travel to Japan to play three gigs! He also played on their sophomore album "Stigmata". In 1998 Peter formed Darkane together with guitarist/friend Christofer Malmström, and since then, they have released four highly acclaimed albums. In 2001 Peter was voted the 28th most popular drummer in Japanese hard rock magazine Burrn!. Peter has been to Japan four times to play shows: the first time with Arch Enemy, second with Majestic, third with Time Requiem and the last time with Darkane.

During 2001 Peter recorded on the cartoon/fusion/jazz/metal project Electrocution-250. The drumming with Electrocution-250 is some of the most demanding drumming Peter has recorded to date. It fuses intense metal drumming and manic fusion soloing together with "cartoon" music in the style of old Tom & Jerry cartoons. You could sum it up in one word: CRAZY! Electrocution-250 features Swedish keyboard wizard Lalle Larsson and American guitar great Todd Duane. Peter has recorded with Lalle before in 1997 on his musical piece "Seven deadly sins", which was performed live for the first time in October 2002. The songs takes the listener on a journey through jazz, chamber music, avant-garde, and metal. A live DVD of this concert is soon to be released.



In 2006 Peter layed down the drums for Narnia guitarist Carl Johan Grimmark’s debut solo CD and also long time friend and guitar player Stefan Rosqvist’s instrumental solo CD. Rosqvist’s solo CD will be the first official CD that features Peter playing more fusion style drumming. Peter has already appeared together with Stefan on the Alchemist guitar compilation CD’s.

Peter is also frequently performing clinics in Sweden. He has been doing that since 1997. The clinics are always well received by the audience and they range from metal to jazz to fusion. He's always performing with music on backing tracks so you get the concept in a musical environment. In 2007 Peter and fellow Darkane guitarist Klas Ideberg decided to open the doors to Darkane’s own studio ‘Not Quite Studio’ for other bands to record there as well. Soilwork is the first band to record and mix their new CD there.

Today, Peter Wildoer is known all around the world for his intense playing style and incredible sense of groove and musicality. The symmetric design of his drum kit allows for intricate patterns to take shape that give him a style all his own. Be sure to catch Peter live to witness his wild drumming first hand!

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