THY CATAFALQUE have released their brand new album ‘Sgùrr’ last Friday, October 16th. The Hungarian avant-garde metal project assembled by mastermind Tamás Kátai is streaming their new masterpiece here, which can also be directly ordered from the Season of Mist shop.
Tamás Kátai comments: “This is ‘Sgùrr’ in full. The matter is never silent. It has been carrying the pure, clean cadence in its droning corridors for millions of years and who ever heard it, will always hear what mountains murmur and water sings.”
Artwork and track listing of ‘Sgùrr’ can be viewed below.
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“The title of this album derives from Scottish Gaelic and means ‘the top of a mountain’,” Tamás Kátai explains. “Yet most of the songs are equally about water, mountains, their interrelationship and the symbols attached to them – inspired by the Scottish Highlands and weird enough the Hungarian Lowlands. There are not many vocal lines at all, but when there occur, they are not pleasant. Compare to previous albums this music is mostly unfriendly, bristling and cold compared to the previous albums. I guess everything is more metal this time.”
Line-up
Tamás Kátai: vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, programming
Guest musicians
Dimitris Papageorgiou: violin
Balázs Hermann: double bass
Zoltán Kónya: additional vocals
Ágnes Sipos: soprano
Viktória Varga: narration
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