Tamás Kátai – guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals, programs

THY CATAFALQUE, the progressive/avant-garde metal project of Hungarian mastermind Tamás Kátai has announced the release date for a new album titled “Sgùrr”. The album, written by, and recorded almost in it’s entirety by Kátai, will be released internationally by Season of Mist on October 16.

The first taste of the new album, an ambitious folk-tinged track titled “Alföldi Kozmosz” is streaming now at Pop Matters. “Alföldi Kozmosz” is the first new music from Kátai in over 3 years. The album and tracklist for “Sgùrr” can be found below. Pre-orders for the album across CD and LP formats can be found here.

Tracklist:
1. Zúgó
2. Alföldi Kozmosz
3. Oldódó formák a halál titokzatos birodalmában
4. A hajnal kék kapuja
5. Élo lény
6. Jura
7. Sgùrr Eilde Mòr
8. Keringo
9. Zúgó

Regarding the new track, Kátai comments:

“This is a quite spontaneous song, recorded in my childhood room with my old, 10-dollar classical guitar while visiting home in Hungary. Violin is similarly off-handed, played by my Greek friend, Dimitris Papageorgiou. There’s no vocals, only music depicting my love towards the Great Hungarian Plain where I was born and raised. Or home. Hence the title: Lowland Cosmos.”

Kátai continues:

“The title of the album is from Scottish Gaelic meaning the top of a mountain but most of the songs are equally about water, mountains, their relationship and symbols attached to them, inspired by the Scottish Highlands and weirdly the Hungarian Lowlands. There’s not much vocals at all, and when there is, it’s not pleasant. Music is mostly unfriendly, bristly and cold compared to the previous albums. I guess it’s more metal this time.”

THY CATAFALQUE, described as “fascinating, unorthodox, emotionally powerful, beautifully worded, heavy…& truly inspired” (No Clean Singing), and “a viciously eclectic dose of strange folk melodies, industrial percussion, and plenty of synthesized goodness” (Prog-Sphere) previously released 2011’s ‘Rengeteg’. ‘Rengeteg’ is streaming here.

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