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Single LP mastering for this new pressing
200 copies limited - natural clear vinyl / gatefold sleeve
“Imagine a death metal world unaltered and pure since the 1990’s, a musical style so dear to the fans, that time, business and trend, could never hurt,“ Death Metal Fan Fernando Ribeiro recommends. “Go back to the glorious time where Death Metal reigned supreme, thanks to some bands, artists, studios and an untameable will of progressing and delivering extreme music to its finest shape, like occult jewellery, filigree , brutal yet elegant in its overwhelming task of splitting your ears. The new Troops of Doom album A Mass to the Grotesque, which Alma Mater Records is brutally proud to present, rescues this long forgotten Death Metal class. They are the flag carriers of the authentic Morrisound sound (the legendary Florida studio where this album was mixed and mastered) and they leave no stones unturned on this one. Brace yourself for the best and most authentic Death Metal album in ages!”
THE TROOPS OF DOOM was formed in 2020, during the pandemic, by the original SEPULTURA guitarist Jairo “Tormentor” Guedz. He recorded the albums “Bestial Devastation” (1985) and “Morbid Visions” (1986). Jairo left the band in 1987, making way for Andreas Kisser, who continues with the band to this day. THE TROOPS OF DOOM’s lineup also includes other significant figures from the Brazilian metal scene, such as guitarist Marcelo Vasco (Patria, Mysteriis), a globally renowned graphic artist known for his work with bands like Slayer, Dee Snider, Kreator, Machine Head, Soulfly, and many others. The vocalist and bassist Alex Kafer, former live guitarist for Matanza, and drummer Alexandre Oliveira, a former member of the band Tianastácia, complete the lineup.
Black 12" vinyl (33 rpm) in deluxe gatefold sleeve.
First pressing 500 copies worldwide.
Tamás Kátai has a vision that extends far beyond his native Hungary, but THY CATAFALQUE’s twelfth album is tied to the past in more ways than one.
Whereas his previous album returned to the heavier days of THY CATAFALQUE, ‘XII’ takes Kátai on a more figurative journey. The album unfolds like a dark night of the soul, whisked away by the dreamy-yet-haunting opener “Piros kocsi, fekete éj”. “Run with me, life / Whisper the tales”, Attila Bakos sings in Hungarian. His cleans soar over the airwaves, reappearing with ease 15 years after he first joined THY CATAFALQUE for the project’s breakout album ‘Róka Hasa Rádió’.
More old friends join Kátai on this journey. “A gyönyöru álmok ezután jönnek” features 20+ guest musicians, including familiar faces from inside and outside of the Hungarian metal scene. Violin, cello and clarinet bring the comforts of home. Still, the road can be quite harsh. “Mindenevo” is consumed with humanity’s self-destructive appetite, fueled by mechanized blast beats and distorted downpicking that recalls the fiery black metal from which THY CATAFALQUE was originally forged in 1998.
Hungarian history looms behind the album’s most crushing moments. The coal blackened chugger “Vasgyár” is named after the rusted-out ironworks that once fueled the country’s economy. In the video for the album’s title track and lead single, Kátai runs through not only his hometown but surreal scenes from past and present issues that lie beneath the surface of the countryside. But his flair for the avant-garde still shines like the dawn. The synth's minor key melody glows with the faint but familiar reassurance that the beautiful dreams are yet to come.
For fans of SOLEFALD, ARCTURUS, BLUT AUS NORD, ULVER.
Turquoise & black marbled 12" vinyl (33 rpm) in gatefold.
Limited to 350 copies worldwide!
Tamás Kátai has a vision that extends far beyond his native Hungary, but THY CATAFALQUE’s twelfth album is tied to the past in more ways than one.
Whereas his previous album returned to the heavier days of THY CATAFALQUE, ‘XII’ takes Kátai on a more figurative journey. The album unfolds like a dark night of the soul, whisked away by the dreamy-yet-haunting opener “Piros kocsi, fekete éj”. “Run with me, life / Whisper the tales”, Attila Bakos sings in Hungarian. His cleans soar over the airwaves, reappearing with ease 15 years after he first joined THY CATAFALQUE for the project’s breakout album ‘Róka Hasa Rádió’.
More old friends join Kátai on this journey. “A gyönyöru álmok ezután jönnek” features 20+ guest musicians, including familiar faces from inside and outside of the Hungarian metal scene. Violin, cello and clarinet bring the comforts of home. Still, the road can be quite harsh. “Mindenevo” is consumed with humanity’s self-destructive appetite, fueled by mechanized blast beats and distorted downpicking that recalls the fiery black metal from which THY CATAFALQUE was originally forged in 1998.
Hungarian history looms behind the album’s most crushing moments. The coal blackened chugger “Vasgyár” is named after the rusted-out ironworks that once fueled the country’s economy. In the video for the album’s title track and lead single, Kátai runs through not only his hometown but surreal scenes from past and present issues that lie beneath the surface of the countryside. But his flair for the avant-garde still shines like the dawn. The synth's minor key melody glows with the faint but familiar reassurance that the beautiful dreams are yet to come.
For fans of SOLEFALD, ARCTURUS, BLUT AUS NORD, ULVER.
CD in deluxe Mediabook with 52 pages limited to the first pressing only.
Tamás Kátai has a vision that extends far beyond his native Hungary, but THY CATAFALQUE’s twelfth album is tied to the past in more ways than one.
Whereas his previous album returned to the heavier days of THY CATAFALQUE, 'XII: A Gyönyöru Álmok Ezután Jönnek’ takes Kátai on a more figurative journey. The album unfolds like a dark night of the soul, whisked away by the dreamy-yet-haunting opener “Piros kocsi, fekete éj”. “Run with me, life / Whisper the tales”, Attila Bakos sings in Hungarian. His cleans soar over the airwaves, reappearing with ease 15 years after he first joined THY CATAFALQUE for the project’s breakout album ‘Róka Hasa Rádió’.
More old friends join Kátai on this journey. “A gyönyöru álmok ezután jönnek” features 20+ guest musicians, including familiar faces from inside and outside of the Hungarian metal scene. Violin, cello and clarinet bring the comforts of home. Still, the road can be quite harsh. “Mindenevo” is consumed with humanity’s self-destructive appetite, fueled by mechanized blast beats and distorted downpicking that recalls the fiery black metal from which THY CATAFALQUE was originally forged in 1998.
Hungarian history looms behind the album’s most crushing moments. The coal blackened chugger “Vasgyár” is named after the rusted-out ironworks that once fueled the country’s economy. In the video for the album’s title track and lead single, Kátai runs through not only his hometown but surreal scenes from past and present issues that lie beneath the surface of the countryside. But his flair for the avant-garde still shines like the dawn. The synth's minor key melody glows with the faint but familiar reassurance that the beautiful dreams are yet to come.
For fans of SOLEFALD, ARCTURUS, BLUT AUS NORD, ULVER.
The invincible force of Pittsburg Prog-cosmics HEMOTOXIN is once again avowed in a deluge of intricate fretboard-finesse on their unstoppable fourth full-length “When Time Becomes Loss”.
Discordant in euphonious harmony yet ruminative in essence, riff-mogul Michael Chavez inflict a gaping wound that perfectly intersect forward-thinking Thrash and Prog-metal. With four years worth of revitalized power, “When Time Becomes Loss” is a fervent flame of victorious Metal that never blows out!
Featuring Scott Fuller (Annihilated, ex-Morbid Angel, ex-Havok, etc) on drums, mixed by Ripped To Shreds’s Andrew Lee and mastered by Justin Weis at Trackworx Studio (Agalloch, High On Fire, Pallbearer, etc). Cover artwork once again commissioned to the phenomenal Mark Cooper (Slaughterday, Master, Thanatos, etc).
Classic album, now on vinyl!
