Darken the
Days are from Albuquerque, New Mexico (I have some family there and lived there
for a few years). I have known the bass player, Mike Garcia since the early 80s
when he lived with one of my good friends, John Johnson and played in the band
Durtie Blonde! Since Facebook, you can
catch up with people and find out what they do 20-30 years later! Anyway, Mike
sent me this CD to check out and tell you more about. The band is a 6 piece
band with two lead vocalists. The CD features 15 tracks in a bit over an hour
and starts off with Between Me and Me. A spacey keyboard line is the intro
before the metal begins. Musically this is a genre I don’t listen to at all,
melodic heavy, moody metal. The drum sound is not to my taste and the drums are
very loud in the mix at times but I think a lot of metal is mixed like this
today? No real guitar solo on this track, lots of riff and the track ends like
it started. All held Dear has a more heavy riff to start and then the guitars
disappear and you have the vocal and bass, but then the aggressive riff comes
back. Good heavy rocking groove and this
track cruises directly into My Shame, which is quite similar with it’s melodic
parts and then heavy riffs but a bit slower with some lead guitar and very
intense drumming at the end. Dirty Little Hands is a more punky track a bit
like Anthrax? Stones is another melodic metal track, where again, the vocals
are really the main focus of all the bands songs. Not a lot of instrumental
parts or solos. Very vocal driven metal. A lot of cool riffs and parts in many
of the songs. Hell Bound is a bit slower and a more heavy riff. Fear of the
Unknown starts as a ballad and again some pad keyboards float into the sound
making it a bit more spacey. It later gets heavy and has a sort of “wow woooow”
sing along part as well and some nice dual harmony wah guitar parts as well.
Don’t want that for Me starts with a short drum solo then a really heavy riff
kicks in and interspersed with some bass. Lyrics seem very personal on this
one. There are 6 more tracks from mid paced Again to the really intense
Whatever May Be (a more growly vocal), to ballad Dig your Grave (also gets
heavy), Devil in the Details- pure metal with a bit of stoner groove thrown in,
it’s not me Its You starts with a great bass line before the metallic riff
takes hold.. Round is the last song…. Are these guys like Alter Bridge??
Maybe.. something like that. I don’t listen to modern metal stuff at all.
Check out the video below and this will give you a feel for
the music. Seems they are a great and powerful live band.
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