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GODIVA is a heavy metal band from Switzerland. Heavy metal is a form of music characterised by aggressive, driving rhythms and highly amplified distorted guitars, generally with grandiose lyrics and virtuosic instrumentation. ...


Orginally formed in early 2001 as a cover band, Godiva consists of Fernando Garcia, Sammy Lasagni, Mitch Koontz, Moses B. Fernandez, Peter Gander. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...


By the summer of 2001, the band recorded their first 3-track-demo and within the next year GODIVA supported numerous bands such as Freedom Call, Shakra, Primal Fear and Dokken. Therefore it is not really a surprise that already one year after GODIVA was founded the boys were headlining the Swiss Metal Attack festival in 2002. A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. ... Freedom Call is a German power metal band formed in 1998. ... Primal Fear is a 1996 motion picture which tells a story of a defense attorney (Richard Gere) who defends an altar boy (Edward Norton) charged with the murder of a Catholic archbishop. ... Dokken was an American metal band which formed in 1978. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The Helvetians first album was simply titled GODIVA and was recorded in the House of Music Studio in Winterbach, Germany under the direction of the two successful producers Tom Naumann and Achim Köhler and released by Limp Music Products.


The second album, Call me under 666, was released in summer 2005. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...


Hard and modern riffs of the two guitarists Sammy Lasagni and Moses B. Fernandez, a driving groove from the rhythmsection Mitch Koontz (bass) and Peter Gander (drums) as well as the unique, unmistakeble melodic heavyvoice of Fernando Garcia give GODIVA its unprecedented characteristics, which even live meets in every respect all expectations.


External links

  • The official GODIVA homepage – First class heavy metal made in Switzerland
  • Interview with the band on www.prog-nose.org
  • Interview with the band on "Metalstorm"

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GODIVA - LoveToKnow Article on GODIVA (566 words)
The oldest form of the legend makes Godiva pass through Coventry market from one end to the other when the people were assembled, attended only by two soldiers, her long hair down so that none saw her, apparentibus cruribus tamen candidissimis.
Her mark, di Ego Godiva Comitissa diu istud desideravi, was found on the charter given by her brother, Thorold of Bucknallsheriff of Lincolnshire to the Benedictine monastery of Spalding in Iosi; and she is commemorated as benefactress of other monasteries at Leominster, Chester, Wenlock, Worcester and Evesham.
The Godiva procession, a commemoration of the legendary ride instituted on the 31st of May i6~8 as part of Coventry fair, was celebrated at intervals until 1826.
Countess Godiva (4339 words)
Godiva died and was buried somewhere in Mercia, possibly in Coventry though more likely in Evesham where she was living in retirement after the death of Leofric.
It has been suggested that Godiva may have been naked in the sense that she was unadorned by the jewels and the trappings of power, or that it may have been an unadorned pilgrimage as a display of piety.
Joan C. Lancaster in ‘Godiva of Coventry’ has a chapter contributed by H. Ellis Davidson on local folklore, where a suggestion is made that Godiva was naked in the sense that she was stripped of her finery, her jewellery and adornments which were to be given to the church.
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