Thy Catafalque is an

avant-garde metal Avant-garde metal (also known as avant-metal, experimental metal, and experimental) is a subgenre of heavy metal music loosely defined by use of experimentation and innovative, avant-garde elements, including non-standard and unconventional soun ...

band formed in

Makó Makó (, german: Makowa, yi, מאַקאָווע Makowe, ro, Macău or , sk, Makov) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 23,272 people and it has an area ...

, Hungary, later based in

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, Scotland, after the relocation of its founder.

History

The band was formed by Hungarian musician

Tamás Kátai Tamás Kátai is a Hungarian people, Hungarian Experimental music, avant-garde musician and professional photographer. He has been in a number of different bands, including the Avant-garde metal, avant-garde post-black metal group Thy Catafalq ...

, along with a bandmate from a previous group,

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. In their early years, the band started off as an "Avantgarde post-black metal project". As time progressed, the band left most of their traditional black metal influences behind for an "extreme variety of songs" in their 2004 album, ''

Tűnő Idő Tárlat Thy Catafalque is an avant-garde metal band formed in Makó, Hungary, later based in Edinburgh, Scotland, after the relocation of its founder. History The band was formed by Hungarian musician Tamás Kátai, along with a bandmate from a previo ...

''. In February 2009, the band was signed to the avant-garde

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Epidemie Records. They have had a number of guest musicians over the years, including vocals by Ágnes Tóth of

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duo The Moon and the Nightspirit. In 2009, they released their concept album ''

Róka Hasa Rádió Thy Catafalque is an avant-garde metal band formed in Makó, Hungary, later based in Edinburgh, Scotland, after the relocation of its founder. History The band was formed by Hungarian musician Tamás Kátai, along with a bandmate from a previo ...

'', about "the relationship between the ever evolving, solid and massive physical matter and the fragileness of humans and all living spirits, throughout distant childhood memories and scientific explanations of nature. Revolving, rotating movements of past and future, colours, sounds, long lost scents by a strange transmission from a timeless radio." It features a mix of atmospheric instrumental music, Hungarian folk elements and traditional black metal, making it very experimental. The album narrowly missed the winner's place in the 2009 HangSúly Hungarian Metal Awards, which was won by Dalriada. In 2011 the band signed to

Season Of Mist Season of Mist is an independent record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pag ...

. Their fifth album entitled '' Rengeteg'' released in 2011 was the first Thy Catafalque album written and recorded by

alone without János Juhász, who did not contribute to the recording this time.

Members

Current: *

–

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, programming Past: * János Juhász – guitar, bass guitar (1998–2011)

Discography

Albums

* ''Sublunary Tragedies'' (1999) * ''Microcosmos'' (2001) * ''Tűnő Idő Tárlat'' (2004) * ''Róka Hasa Rádió'' (2009) * ''Rengeteg'' (2011) * ''Sgùrr'' (2015) * ''Meta'' (2016) * ''Geometria'' (2018) * ''Naiv'' (2020) * ''Vadak'' (2021)

Demos

* ''Cor Cordium'' (1999)

References

External links

Official website

Season Of Mist

Thy Catafalque info sheet at Metal-archives

Thy Catafalque
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