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Last Updated on 04:37 PM by Giorgos Tsekas
Genre: Avant – Garde
Country: Hungary
Label: Season of Mist
Year: 2021
Tamás Kátai is the mastermind behind the moniker of Thy Catafalque, as this one-man project seems to be one the greatest moments for the year that soon will be past. Almost 1 ½ year after the release of “Naiv”, in summer of 2021 (not too late I guess for an album that will mark its year of release, right?) Thy Catafalque released their 10th studio full length entitled “Vadak” which in English can be translated into wildlings or something.
Their Avant-garde Metal is based in Black Metal , after all the project began as a Black Metal band in the late 90s, electronic and folk music, creating a haunting and primitive soundscape that breaks free from the limitations of sub-genres.
The use of beats, folk instruments, jazz parts, noir aesthetic, the vocals of Martina Veronika Horváth, synths, violin, saxophone, bagpipes and trumpets along with galloping rhythms and black metal riffs are way too experimental for the average fan but at the same time really accessible and approachable for any who has the curiosity and the will to travel through music into different worlds than the ones he/she has already been.
If you want to compare “Vadak” with their previous work, then you will see a darker and more atmospheric album, as the compositions are more aggressive and probably multilevel as Tamás Kátai worked with sixteen guest musicians for the creation of this album, that they left their mark on it.
From the opener “Szarvas” (translates to “Deer”), through “Köszöntsd a hajnalt” (“Greet the Dawn”),“Gömböc” (“Sphere”), “Az Energiamegmaradás Törvénye” (“The Law of Conservation of Energy”), “Móló” (“Pier”), “A kupolaváros titka” (“Secret of the Cupola City”) ,“Kiscsikó ( Irénke dala)” (“Foal \[Irénke’s Song]) , “Piros-sárga” (“Red and Yellow”), “Vadak (Az átváltozás rítusai)” (“Wildlings Rites of Metamorphosis”) to “Zúzmara” (“Hoar Frost”) , the double LP album is an endless trip to primal lands with vehicle 10 simple almost minimalistic compositions with so rich orchestration and a plethora of elements that delimited from pop/gothic to folk and from melodic death to jazz, that it makes it almost impossible for a narrow mind to understand it.
