"...yet another testament to the musical genius of Tamás Kátai" - No Clean Singing
"Few musicians have as long and varied a career as Tamás Kátai of Thy Catafalque" - Angry Metal Guy
"Thy Catafalque are a one of a kind experiment that have never played by traditional rules or boundaries" - New Noise
"A monstrously entertaining, tightly diverse band" - Everying Is Noise
"...will delight metlaheads of all stripes" - Echoes and Dust
Even during its initial gestation period, Thy Catafalque had already expanded beyond the perceived limits of extreme metal. With each album, Tamás Kátai and his band of collaborators have taken another step beyond the genre's boundaries, bringing the world's most vile art form into conversation with the avant-garde.
There's still a light at the end of Thy Catafalque's upcoming twelfth album. But as Kátai winds through its introspective journey into the night, XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek revisits the all-consuming heaviness that courses back through the project's 20-year history. While garnished with plenty of classical flourishes, its meaty new single "Mindenevő" growls like the belly of a metallic beast.
Feast your eyes on the video for "Mindenevő" Below.
XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek comes out November 15, 2024 on Season of Mist.
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A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek is still guided by the dreaminess that fans in and outside of Hungary have come to admire about Thy Catafalque. After all, in English, the album's title translates to 'The Beautiful Dreams Are Yet to Come'. "I imagined these songs as a journey into the night", Kátai says. Finding his way along this path required him to head in a different direction - at least, as far as the production goes. The dark waves of synth that streak through the album's title track and lead single glow with the faint but familiar reassurance of the dawn.
Still, journeying through A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek can be a rocky road. While the latest single opens with a plucking oud, "Mindenevő" is a full bore feast for bloodthirsty metalheads. The insatiable blast beats and tongue-flicking tremolo picking are cooked over the same blackened fires as Thy Catafalque's 1999 debut. "Our last album, Alföld, was very bleak", Kátai explains. "Adding classical and acoustic instruments helped add a sprig of color to these new songs, but XII still has plenty of metal".
Even the progressive flourishes feed the song's sickening theme. A fretless bass waltzes into the room just as the video's dinner party succumbs to their insatiable appetite for destruction. "Blood and fat shall course through every vein", chants a doomy operatic chorus. "We devour everything around us", Kátai says when asked about the philosophical musings that greased the wheels of "Mindenevő" (which means "Omnivore"). "It's absurd. The way we consume everything in our path only leads us closer to our demise".
In the end, the engorged death metal riffs finally eat their fill. Yet as the beastly "Mindenevő" lays to rest amidst a thick delirium of clarinet and French horn, the feeling that's left churning in the pit of your stomach is pure, unfiltered dread.
"Human beings do have an animal side", Kátai says. "Even though some of us strive for purity, in the end, we have to recognize and accept the morbidity of nature".
The video for "Mindenevő" was created by G13 Film.
New fans and long-time appreciators can now rediscover just how much Thy Catafalque has grown since their humble beginnings as a duo. This year, Season of Mist re-issued Thy Catafalque's first seven albums.
These reissues include first-edition pressings, limited color vinyls, UV-prints, 3D etchings and new artwork, plus bonus tracks.
Order:https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/ThyCatafalqueReissues
Thy Catafalque's twelfth album looks back longingly at the past, Tamás Kátai isn't stopping to smell the roses. With A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek, he shows that the beautiful dreams are yet to come.
Recording Lineup
Tamás Kátai – guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, programming
Guest musicians
Martina Veronika Horváth – vocals on Track 1, 6
Ivett Dudás – vocals on Track 8
Helga Kreiter – vocals on Track 4, 10
Gábor Dudás – vocals on Track 2, 5, 6, 10
Bálint Bokodi – vocals on Track 2, 4, 9
Gábor Veres – vocals on Track 3, 8
Attila Bakos – vocals on Track 1
Zoltán Kónya – vocals on Track 3
András Vörös – vocals on Track 4
Breno Machado – lead guitar on Track 2
Zoltán Vigh – lead guitar on Track 3
Krisztián Varga – lead guitar on Track 4
Daniele Belli – acoustic guitar on Track 2
Miguel Velasquez Matija – fretless bass on Track 2, 6
Edu Giró – oud, bouzouki, baglama on Track 2,7
Grigoris Mitropoulos – bouzouki, mpaglamas on Track 7
Sanja Smileska – violin on Track 3
Jo Quail – electric cello on Track 8
Issar Shulman – contrabass on Track 2
Cal Rustad – French horn on Track 2, 8
Manuel Domenech – cor anglais on Track 8
Khachatrian Lernik – clarinet on Track 2
Gergő Bille – flugelhorn, trumpet on Track 7
Joakim Toftgaard – trombone, trumpet on Track 7
Fabian Hernandez – saxophone on Track 5
Viktória Varga – narration on Track 3
Annamari Sánta – narration on Track 7, 8
Recording
Recorded in various countries: Hungary, United Kingdom, Romania, Ukraine, Italy, Spain, Greece, North Macedonia, Israel, U.S.A., Colombia, Brazil.
Producer & Sound Engineer
Tamás Kátai, Gábor Vári
Mixing & Mastering
Miracle Sound Szeged, Hungary. Mixed and mastered by Gábor Vári.
Artwork
Front cover by Dániel Szécsényi and Tamás Kátai
Illustrations by Orsolya Pintér.
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