VADAK

There's an argument to be made for this as Thy Catafalque's best record. Tamás Kátai has been working within similar lines for well over a decade now, playing off-kilter, drum machine-led blackened prog metal of various forms, and although every album from that period was good, none were outstanding. I would hesitate to call Vadak outstanding either, but it does have enough of a range of sounds to make it the most wholly enjoyable album I've heard from the project - Kátai's work is well known for lengthy repetitive sections which don't add an awful lot, as well as tracks that only have one genuinely good idea and seem to loop around ad infinitum on it. This one is surprisingly varied - the folk metal undertones which dot other records come out in full force in certain tracks here, as do the synthwave and prog electronic bits he developed on side project Neolunar . What results is a surprisingly diverse album with pretty much everything you expect from Thy Catafalque, and a few things you don't.

7.4 (6th listen)

Part of my listening diary from my facebook music blog - www.facebook.com/TheExoskeletalJunction

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