68. Thy Catafalque - "Alföld"
Yet another distinctly solo project. Tamás Kátai has been producing distinctly avant-garde interpretations of various iterations of metal for nearly 20 years. This is a heavy but also distinctly odd record. I say odd because there are dozens of moments where it feels like a communal garden death metal album and then inexplicably and with very little warning it wanders off in distinctly odd directions.
It’s as if Tamas is suffering from some form of attention deficit disorder and he can only do the aggressive metal stuff for short bursts of time before his head gets turned and he wanders off into strange little cul-de-sacs or plinky plonk weirdness. Even though it is distinctly head-scratching in places I really did warm to its spontaneity and latent desire to experiment. In my book there is nowt wrong with being odd.