Thy Catafalque Releasing New Album "Sgùrr," Posts Song Online

Thy Catafalque - the progressive/avant-garde metal project of Hungarian mastermind Tamás Kátai - has announced the release date for a new album titled "Sgùrr." The album, written by, and recorded almost in it's entirety by Kátai, will be released internationally by Season of Mist on October 16, 2015.

The first taste of the new album, an ambitious folk-tinged track titled "Alföldi Kozmosz," is now available for streaming below. Regarding the new track, Kátai comments:

"This is a quite spontaneous song, recorded in my childhood room with my old, 10-dollar classical guitar while visiting home in Hungary. Violin is similarly off-handed, played by my Greek friend, Dimitris Papageorgiou. There's no vocals, only music depicting my love towards the Great Hungarian Plain where I was born and raised. Or home. Hence the title: Lowland Cosmos.

"The title of the album is from Scottish Gaelic meaning the top of a mountain but most of the songs are equally about water, mountains, their relationship and symbols attached to them, inspired by the Scottish Highlands and weirdly the Hungarian Lowlands. There's not much vocals at all, and when there is, it's not pleasant. Music is mostly unfriendly, bristly and cold compared to the previous albums. I guess it's more metal this time."