THY CATAFALQUE Make New Track ‘Testen túl’ Available For Streaming
May 8th, 2023
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Makó, Hungary-based avant-garde metal project Thy Catafalque, spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist Tamás Kátai, have made the track ‘Testen túl’ available for streaming via YouTube, which can be accessed below.
Tamás Kátai commented: “Our last single from Alföld is ‘Testen túl’ with Bálint Bokodi on vocals who is part of our live incarnation as well. The song is fast, dark and hopeless.”
Thy Catafalque issue tenth full-length studio album Alföld on June 16th, 2023 through Season Of Mist.
“Alföld is the most straightforward and classic extreme metal album the project ever recorded,” said Tamás Kátai. “This time I just wanted to do metal without any innovation or progression, focusing on songs and riffs rather than experimenting and breaking new grounds. Had to let the old ideas out, so I did it with enjoyment. ‘Alföld’ means ‘The Great Plains’, a massive flat part of South-East Hungary where I was born and raised and we shot the video for ‘Néma vermek’ in the middle of the barren lands, in Makó-Bogárzó.”
Alföld was mixed by Tamás Kátai in Budapest, Hungary, and mastered by Colin Davis at Imperial Mastering in Austin, Texas.
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Cover artwork consists of photography by Orsolya Karancz.
The track listing is as follows:
01. ‘A csend hegyei’
02. ‘Testen túl’
03. ‘A földdel egyenlő’
04. ‘Alföld’
05. ‘Folyondár’
06. ‘Csillagot görgető’
07. ‘A felkelő hold országa’
08. ‘Szíriusz’
09. ‘Néma vermek’
Alföld’s recording line-up was as follows:
Tamás Kátai (guitar, bass, keyboards, programs and vocals)
Martina Veronika Horváth (vocals, The Answer Lies In The Black Void / Mansur)
Lambert Lédeczy (vocals, Ahriman / Mörbid Carnage)
Bálint Bokodi (vocals)
Gábor Veres (vocals, Watch My Dying)
Gábor Dudás (vocals, Reason)
Breno Machado (lead guitars)
Daniele Belli (acoustic guitar and double bass)
Dario Cei (flute)
Chris Lyons (violin and viola)
Ido Romano (ney)
Samuel Chacon (fretless bass)
Austris Apenis (French horn)
Alföld’s guest musicians were as follows:
Martina Veronika Horváth (track 4)
Lambert Lédeczy (tracks 1, 4, and 6)
Bálint Bokodi (tracks 2 and 3)
Gábor Veres (tracks 7 and 9)
Gábor Dudás (track 6)
Breno Machado (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8)
Daniele Belli (track 5)
Dario Cei (track 5)
Ido Romano (track 6)
Samuel Chacon (track 3)
Austris Apenis (tracks 4 and 7)
Music videos were filmed for the tracks ‘Néma vermek’ and ‘A csend hegyei’. Both clips can be viewed below.
Ninth studio record Naiv was released in January 2020 via Season Of Mist.
Promotional photograph by Orsolya Karancz.
