Review by JD on January 22, 2010.

The Austrian band known as Garagedays second release called "Wild And Dangerous" has arrived in my hot hands... and continues where the first EP had left off. True to the bands fundamental metallic attitudes, it is a album that is simple and strong yett very effective in what they do.

Reminding me a whole lot on this album like Canadian metal legends Anvil along with many other bands from the 80's, this band shows that simple is more often than not the most effective way to rock. Garagedays don’t fill your mind with endless fret burning guitar lines or some weird ethereal lilts of keyboards... they are straight ahead and powerful metal that is just simple fun. Ten tracks of fun, to be exact, ten!

The songs are very simple, yet well crafted in every way. The music they deliver is heavy and full of all sorts of melodies and hooks that stick in your mind while the bands basic philosophy with life is clear.... just to have fun, and blow your mind away as well. The album here is the thing to gather up all of your friends with one Saturday afternoon, tapping a cold keg of good strong beer while turning up the stereo up to ten to see if the speakers could actually survive the pushing.

As I have said once, and now needing to say it again... No great mystery here to what the Austrian bangers are... Garagedays is just four simple thrashers that are out to make some great music that means something to them, all the while giving it to the world with a smile and a raised stein filled with cold beer and have some fun in doing so. Somehow right now, I feel like brothers to them. Pass the beers, bros!

Categorical Rating Breakdown　

Musicianship: 8.5
Atmosphere: 9
Production: 8.5
Originality: 7 (But for how good this is... who cares?)
Overall: 9

Rating: 8.4 out of 10

Review by JD on April 20, 2010.

Old school metal... Ahh... feels like a cold beer on a exceedingly hot day. Can’t say anything more here to lead into my written ramblings I'am here to deliver, so we will go on to my little musings.

Garagedays is a band that brings back the good old days of my youth....heavy thrashing metal and kicking back to enjoy it... it feels almost like it is a vacation packed on a little silver disk. I already sort of was expecting some great music from the second that I saw that I was reviewing another album from the Australian equivalent of Metallica. I have to say that I was not disappointed in any way from the first note of the album... actually I was more than just pleased.

The boys have made another classic album of pure metal here. There is no rap metal anywhere on this album... nor is there any black arts summoning up some hell spawned demons or some young shredding guitar god on here going through how many ways to do a scale thing either, none of any of that. Garagedays have given us some great Thrash based metal that sounds great and makes you bang your head while trying not to spill your beer in the process.

Each song has that fun sort of attitude, yet still shows that the band can play and play hard and make a memorable tune. Garagedays is not rocket science here, the band delivers some great metal that has a whole lot of fun with it. Does not change metal in any way, but it just shows that fun is the main game here.

Categorical Rating Breakdown　
　
Musicianship:8
Atmosphere: 8
Production: 8.5
Originality: 8.5
Overall: 9

Rating: 8.4 out of 10