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The Auriga Project

About Me

The band was formed in 1989 by Javier Fernandez and Marco Caamaño. After various names and line ups, the group is formed by Javier Fernandez on Vocals and Guitar, Harry Boschini on guitars, Gabriel Retana on bass and Rafael Chavarria on drums, with the name AURIGA.
Already with a DEMO on their hands (the 1998 "Dark Thoughts: Antara Sessions") the band releases their self titled debut album in 2001. The album got great reviews and won the Metal News Award for Best Album that year. Javier Fernandez was also awarded as best vocalist/instrumentist and Gabriel Retana won his second consecutive 'Best Bass Player' award.
Boschini and Chavarria left the band in 2002 for personal reasons.
In 2004 Javier creates what today is knows as Freak World Entertainment, an indy label created to help hard-working local bands get their material released. Fernandez and Retana are now working with session drummers, and will release AURIGA's next studio album, "Metamorphosis" through FWE.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/03/2006
Band Website: http://www.auriga.co.cr"http://www.auriga.co.cr
Band Members: Javier Fernandez (Vocals, Guitars):

Gabriel Retana (Bass):

Ari Lotringer (Guitars):

Rodrigo Chaverri (Drums):

Sounds Like:

Heavy and Thrash Metal
Record Label: Freak World Entertainment
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Pre-Production Starts Again / Pre-Production Comienza de Nuevo

HELLo Metalheads, After much trouble, we are happy to announce that pre-production has resumed after being interrupted by, as Lemony Snicket would say it, a series of unfortunate events...:namespace p...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:22:00 GMT

Equipment Stolen!

Friday night while at work, burglars broke into singer/guitarrist Javier Fernandez's home, stealing among many things, all of his music euiqpment: 6 guitars, effects, amps, etc. They also took Javie...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:15:00 GMT

Long Lost "Treasure" Found!

Like a rare artifact from an Indiana Jones movie, it was long lost and forgotten.  But today, it has been found... The extremely rare video for "La Espada y La Ley". It was done by a friend ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:40:00 GMT

The Destiny Concert - UPDATE

Although they were happy about the inciative, the people from Destiny Recordings kindly requested that the concert was not done. Auriga then goes back to their regular working schedule for the release...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:44:00 GMT

AURIGA LIVE - Sooner than Expected!

AURIGA could be performing LIVE for the first time in half a decade in late October / early November, instead of waiting until releasing the "Metamorphosis" album. The band could be performing at an A...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:38:00 GMT

Singer/Guitarist Javier Fernandez's Health Update

Hello everyone! Another Auriga Update: I have been diagnosed with liver decease.  This apparently came from alcohol consumption.  After several tests, they have confirmed that my liver is st...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:52:00 GMT

New Auriga Material

Hello everyone! Here the latest update on Auriga: We are currently rehearsing material over at Audio Arte Studios, where not only are new songs being put together, they are also working in refres...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:18:00 GMT