{"product_id":"thy-catafalque-xiii-sarga-erdo-cd-lp","title":"Thy Catafalque - XIII: Sárga Erdo [CD\/LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlease note: This item is a pre-order and will be shipping on or around 11\/20\/2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHY CATAFALQUE is the solo-helmed Hungarian avant-garde metal project of Tamás Kátai, running since 1998 and now a two-time Fonogram (Hungarian Grammy) winner. What began as a studio-only outlet has grown, over the past few years, into a full international touring act with festival slots across Europe and Latin America. \u003cbr\u003e'XIII: Sárga erdo' is THY CATAFALQUE's thirteenth album, and unlike its predecessors it carries no single narrative thread: the twelve tracks move instead through what plays like a wandering across old ground, touching on loss, distance, memory and disappearance without ever settling on one story. The record marks a real shift in how it's built: this is the first time THY CATAFALQUE has used a live drummer rather than programmed rhythm, and while the cast is enormous - thirty-four musicians plus a twenty-voice male choir - the folk and classical textures that once flooded every corner of a song (piano, strings, brass, reed, sitar, kamancheh, zither) are used here with real discipline, brought in only when a track calls for them. The result sits closer to the bone than the maximalism of the last record, heavier in restraint than in volume, and it still finds room for a fictitious folk song built for a vanished people on the Volga, an incineration metaphor turned into the album's heaviest cut, and an opener that reads like a farewell letter. \u003cbr\u003eGábor Vári returns behind the desk for a second record running, keeping the production language consistent even as the arrangements pull back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist","offers":[{"title":"CD Digibook","offer_id":44830638538840,"sku":"66947","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Deluxe Hand Numbered Autumn Leaf-Filled Vinyl","offer_id":44830638571608,"sku":"66951","price":209.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl","offer_id":44830638604376,"sku":"66948","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Purple Marbled Vinyl","offer_id":44830638637144,"sku":"66949","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Yellow Splatter Vinyl","offer_id":44830638669912,"sku":"66950","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5695\/1384\/files\/SOM917LPES1.jpg?v=1789495224","url":"https:\/\/seasonofmist.myshopify.com\/products\/thy-catafalque-xiii-sarga-erdo-cd-lp","provider":"Season of Mist","version":"1.0","type":"link"}