Metal Blade Records has issued the following update from CATARACT:

"Allright Cataractians, it's done, we're a five piece again!

As of today Nico Schläpfer from END OF SUFFERING and TIMOR has joined us as our new bass player! We are confident that he will add a lot of new spirit and blood to the band – not just because he's a tiny bit younger than the rest of us, haha!

Of course we want to thank all the guys who also were ready to ruin their lives, we had to pick between four guys and this decision was quite hard to make. We will give you more information about our new member as soon as possible

and we're excited to present him on stage very soon!

Next we'd like to announce our record release and 10th Anniversary show which is scheduled for the 20th of March 2008. It'll take place at Rohstofflager Zürich, we will have a couple of supporting acts and we will take care of a good sound as well. Tickets are available through pitfire.net and directly through us, we'll let you know when.

We've got some other things planned for the release of our fifth full length and we will announce everything in time.

We also have some new merch on the way, we should receive it by the middle of February. We are currently selling out some of our older designs and have lowered the prices, there's just a few (thats one or two) left of those items so check the webstore on our homepage!

We will play an exclusive "show" on the 29th of January appearing at Karaoke From Hell (hosted by Martin Ain from CELTIC FROST) at the Mascotte club in Zürich. It's not really a show since we're only allowed to play one cover song and that's it, but it sure as hell will be a lot of fun! About seven other bands will also appear making complete twats out of themselves to win a trophy!”