Thy Catafalque announces 2024 European Tour with The Answer Lies In The Black Void
Steel yourself, trailblazers of the avant-garde. Thy Catafalque, the innovative auditory blacksmith who bridged black metal and the avant-garde, is set to grace Europe with 10 exclusive dates across the mainland with The Answer Lies In The Black Void opening the show. We invite you on a journey toward the unexplored realms of musical expression, guided by Tamás Kátai — Thy Catafalque‘s visionary and the relentless rebel in the world of metal.
Experience the sonic magic, the defying conventions, and mind-bending dance of aggression and artistry, as we retread paths of musical evolution. Cherish the echoes of the past as the trailblazer forges forward.
Thy Catafalque 2024 Europe Tour:
29th March: Vienna, AT @ Szene
30th March: Prague, CZ @ Kasárna Karlín
31st March: Munich, DE @ Dark Easter Metal Meeting – SOLD OUT!
1st April: Colmar, FR @ Le Grillen
2nd April: Oberhausen, DE @ Kulttempel
3rd April: Kortrijk, BE @ DVG Club
4th April: Eindhoven, NL @ Effenaar
5th April: Rotterdam, NL @ Baroeg
6th April: Copenhagen, DK @ Stengade
7th April: Hamburg, DE @ Martkthalle-Marx
Thy Catafalque is a metamorphic entity that’s constantly evolving, showcasing musical ingenuity that’s as limitless as it is daring. Meaning The Great Plains, Alföld is grounded in the Avant Garde project’s heavy beginnings. While the record takes a cue from Thy Catafalque‘s early days, mastermind Tamás Kátai‘s modern progressive instincts shine through, elevating the record beyond the realm of metal as-you-know-it and once again creating a cutting-edge sound that’s far ahead of its time.
“Alföld is the most straight forward and classic extreme metal album the project ever recorded“, says mastermind 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“.
Originally, Thy Catafalque emerged as a black metal band founded by singer/keyboard player Tamás Kátai with the aid of guitarist/bassist János Juhász. Following their joined debut Sublunary Tragedies (1999), the Hungarians evolved into quite different directions, but steadily gaining more followers in the process through the following albums, Microcosmos (2001) and the self-released Tűnő Idő Tárlat (2004).
On their fourth full-length, Róka Hasa Rádió (2009), Thy Catafalque invited Ágnes Tóth from neo-folk outfit The Moon And The Nightspirit and Attila Bakos to add their haunting vocals. With fifth album Rengeteg (2011), Tamás Kátai finally went solo with the help of guest musicians that again included Ágnes Tóth an Attila Bakos. Dubbing his eclectic musical amalgamation avant-garde metal, the Hungarian explored new sonic possibilities with Sgùrr (2015).
The sixth full-length turned out to be slightly more complex than its successor, Meta (2016), which returned to a more direct approach without losing the steadily growing sonic diversity. In 2018, Thy Catafalque continued this path with the release of Geometria. Thy Catafalque delivered another spectacular musical mosaic with their ninth full-length entitled Naiv, inspired by the naïve art movement.
In 2021, Thy Catafalque return with Vadak. Meaning wildlings in Hungarian, the album title is a deliberate clue to the exotic and feral essence of Vadak. Like seedlings scattered throughout the forest by the mere forces of nature, Thy Catafalque‘s imaginative sound grows with an organic sense of whimsy, cultivated within the vast influences of our megacosm. Thematically, Vadak is a foreboding lesson in mortality. Emphasizing the fragility that is shared by man and beast alike, the record explores our Freudian life instincts, in which we inherently fear and run from the ultimate goal of existence: death.
Now, the visionary is looking to the past as it journeys onward and upward with its latest opus, which is just as familiar as it is forward-thinking, certain to mesmerize a vast swath of metal enthusiasts across all genres.
