Band: Cataract
Album title: Killing The Eternal
Label: Metal Blade Records
Distributor: Metal Blade Records - Rough Trade Benelux.
Release date: 24/09/2010
Release: CD

Cataract has always been a strange band to me. One time, they tour with death metal bands and the other time, they support some of the truest hardcore bands such as Sick Of It All. That’s why we can call Cataract a hardcore-influenced thrash metal band.
Killing The Eternal is the new full-length of this Swiss combo. The clearest influences I can refer to are Sworn Enemy, Sepultura and Heaven Shall Burn. When you listen to the songs, I immediately have the feeling that I’ve heard this a million times before, but still you can recognize the band’s own sound though the typical guitar sound.
The album kicks off with the song Never. It is a very good song, in which the hardcore influences are clearly noticeable. After having listened to this song, I had very high expectations for the rest of the album. Unfortunately, I had to wait until the fifth song, Failed, to get a similar good song. And this track summarizes the rest of the album, in which the band failed. The four songs in between aren’t really rubbish, but it misses originality and strength. In the fourth song and title track, which is an instrumental one, I even had the impression that the band somehow had forgotten to add vocals to it.
Nothing special can be said of the rest of the album. Everything sounds very simple for a band as Cataract.
I hope the band will listen to the first song again and again and do a rematch on their next album.

62/100

Nick Tronckoe.