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Gotthard, a hard-rock band from Lugano in the Italian part of Switzerland and Bern in the German part, was founded in 1990 by mentor and co songwriter Chris von Rohr, best known as Krokus’ bass player. Gotthard is definitely one of the most famous and successful Swiss artists ever and almost every album has topped the Swiss charts since 1990.

With 2 million albums sold (1 million of which were sold in Switzerland, which only has 7 million habitants), they managed to get multi-platinum awards in different parts of the world.

Influences include Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Whitesnake, Deep Purple and Aerosmith. Singer Steve Lee is especially fond of Whitesnake and has based his singing style on their lead singer David Coverdale.

Gotthard also performed “Immigrant Song” (originally by Led Zeppelin) live and it featured exclusively on a CD by Classic Rock (a long running monthly UK rock magazine). “Hush” was also performed live and can be found on Made In Switzerland album.

Another cover of a song they have recorded is “The Mighty Quinn”, originally called Quinn The Eskimo, by Bob Dylan.

Singer Steve Lee was killed in a motorcycle accident on October 5th 2010. A truck struck him while he was stopped on the side of a desert road in Nevada (USA), putting on rain gear.

Current line-up:

Nic Maeder: Vocals
Leo Leoni: Lead Guitar
Freddy Scherer: Rhythm Guitar
Marc Lynn: Bass
Hena Habegger: Drums
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  • HezzardNL

    New album is gonna be great! It's never gonna be as good as with Steve but still pretty damn good. R.I.P

    Saturday afternoon

  • Sharp-Ton

    Hard Rock without glam.

    Tuesday morning

  • Yellowxander

    Video interview with Gottard at MetalTalk.net http://metaltalk.net/columns/20101778.php

    17 days ago

  • Metal_Rage

    Hello!!! Check out the video from the new band “Náyades”! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYYksso-7oM Myspace: www.myspace.com/nayadesmetal if you want to download our demo, copy and paste the link to your Url! Thank you for the support!.

    18 days ago

  • lucas_xs

    Sometimes i don't know why, I feel i wanna start crying...

    last month

  • Sonata89

    new album sounds nice but I miss the great melodies of "need to believe". it's WAY more oldsql than the last releases.

    last month

  • KingSprayBall

    Why have I never heard of these. They sound very good. Gotta love last.fm

    March 2012

  • nitty_look

    Hey this group is good! Never heard of them before. Thanks last.fm!

    March 2012
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