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Band history

The band was formed by a former Griva member Josip Sabo (guitar) and a well-known

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(drums). The band started their activity in 1992, when Sabo and Kerac were joined by a former Albatorosi member Predrag "Peđa" Moldvaji (bass guitar). Initially, the band performed covers by

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"). In 1996, the band was joined by vocalist Dušan Uvalić "Francuz", a former vocalist for the bands Annathema and Crash. This lineup recorded new songs, released during the same year on the album ''Cat Claw'', named after the comic book superhero of the same name created by Kerac. In 1998, after a number of concerts across

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, Uvalić left GeroMetal to join the reformed Annathema, and two members of the band Kraj, Viktor Moldvaji (Predrag Moldvaji's son, guitar) and Nenad Petković (the bass guitarist in Kraj, on keyboards in GeroMetal), joined the band. Until the end of their career the band performed occasionally only, performing mostly in

. In 2000, the band disbanded. The band members, without Kerac, formed the band High Risk.

Discography

Studio albums

*''Der Rauch Am Wasser'' (1993) *''Cat Claw'' (1996)

References

*''NS rockopedija, novosadska rock scena 1963-2003'', Mijatović Bogomir; Publisher: SWITCH, 2005

External links

Official MySpace

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