Thy Catafalque

Hungarian avant-garde metal group Thy Catafalque traffics in multiple heavy metal sub-genres, from icy symphonic black and post-metal to regional folk, progressive, and experimental rock. The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, poet, and photographer Tamás Kátai and frequent collaborator János Juhász, the Makó-born project's earliest sonic emissions, 1999's Sublunary Tragedies and 2001's Microcosmos, drew heavily from black and post-metal. After relocating to Edinburgh, Scotland, Kátai adopted a more experimental style that incorporated multiple musical disciplin...