Thy Catafalque
Bio
Thy Catafalque offer avant-garde/experimental metal sprouted from the grey cells of Hungarian multi-instrumentalist Tamás Kátai, a man whose musical vision has a total disregard for conventional boundaries.
Even in its infancy, Thy Catafalque had renounced the rigid tropes of the black metal genre. Originally intended as a studio endeavour, the project has developed into a vivid collaboration with a host of guest musicians and guest vocalists. With every new album, Kátai pushes the boundaries of extreme metal, blending black metal’s inherent coal-black premise with multiple subgenres ranging from traditional folk to progressive/experimental rock and post-metal. His approach has resulted in a number of lauded albums such as the mainly symphonic ‘Meta’ (2016) and 2020’s ‘Naiv’ with its strong traditional folk influences. For his very atmospheric twelfth album ‘XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek’ (2024), the mastermind recruited 20 Hungarian musicians and linked his past to the history of his birth country.
