Band: Garagedays
Album title: Dark And Cold
Label: Massacre Records
Distributor: Suburban
Release date: 27/05/2011
Release: CD

Garagedays (a trash and power metal quartet) was founded in the year 2005 in Rattenberg (Austria) by Marco Kern, who was on a mission to represent and defend "good old 80ies metal". After a long search and various lineups later, concerning the drum and the bass section, they finally chose Martin Bogner on drums and Dominik Eder on bass. With that lineup they started to write songs and performing them live.
From early 2006 until 2007 they completed 10 tracks and recorded their first demo CD called "Wild and Dangerous". End of 2008, Matthias Mai (drum) and Rene Auer (lead guitar) join the chaos.
The album sounds a bit strange actually. You have the combination of power metal (mostly vocals and song progression) and trash metal (mostly riffs) that sounds cool in one way but also a bit not normal and forced. Although structure wise these 2 work together, I have my doubt sound wise. Although it doesn’t sound bad, it sounds strange and I have to struggle to keep my attention to it. When you can look/listen part that sound issue, you find 10 good solid songs. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing special, just good solid metal.

71/100

Jeroen.