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Band
Cauldron
Title
Tomorrow's Lost
Type
LP/EP
Company
Earache
YOR
2012
Style
Traditional
1/1/2014 - Review by: Eric Compton

Cauldron
Tomorrow's Lost

Company: Earache
Release: 2012
Genre: traditional
Reviewer: EC

  • Traditional swashbuckling



  • Third album to date from Canadian old school crew Cauldron. Earache keeps pushing this brand of garage metal and "Tomorrow's Lost" continues the traditional push. I really loved the band's debut and thought the follow-up effort was fairly solid as well. The band seems to push more in the direction of traditional swashbuckling on this third album, maybe more of a compromise of the first two records.

    Overall the production here is abysmally bad, probably on purpose considering the 70s and 80s sensibility of the band. Opener "End Of Time" sounds extremely hollow and songs like "Burning Fortune" have clangy cymbals that sound like early Venom. I also am finding fault with the arrangements, often than not refusing to do a whole lot of timing and tempo changes and rarely does anything change key in the vocal department. But it isn't all bad and Cauldron still make up the difference with some stronger songs.

    "Fight For Day" reflects the same mindset as the sophomore album, that mid-tempo hard rockin' metal sound made famous by the likes of Warlord. The band's first single (if there is such a thing) and video is "Nitebreaker", complete with guitar that is as good or better than the scorcher riff on "Witch Trail" (from the debut). The band's "To Tame A Land" gallop can be found on "Tomorrow's Lost" and "Summoned To Succumb" is built around the 80s hard rock chorus (very much like Dokken). The album comes with two bonus songs if you purchase through iTunes; an amazing Cathedral cover in "Autumn Twilight" and a cover of Carcass' "I Told You So (Corporate Rock Really Sucks)".



    • 1 :REVIEW COUNT
      3 :AVE RATING

    ALL REVIEWS FOR: CAULDRON
    TITLE
    DOR
    COMPANY
    REVIEWER DATE MADE RATING
    Burning Fortune
    2011
    Earache
    Eric Compton5/13/2011
    4.5
    Chained To The Nite
    2009
    Earache
    Eric Compton4/2/2010
    4.5
    Chained To The Nite
    2009
    Earache
    Vinaya Saksena8/28/2009
    3
    In Ruin
    2016
    The End
    Eric Compton5/31/2016
    3
    New Gods
    2018
    The End
    David Loveless9/19/2018
    2.5
    Tomorrow's Lost
    2012
    Earache
    Eric Compton1/1/2014
    3

    ALL INTERVIEWS FOR: CAULDRON
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