Tamás Kátai Explained

Tamás Kátai
Birth Date:	1975
Instrument:	Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
Genre:	Avant-garde metal Experimental Post-metal Symphonic black metal Folk metal Ambient Industrial metal Extreme metal Black metal Classical
Occupation:	Musician, songwriter, poet, photographer
Years Active:	1993–present
Label:	Ars Benevola Mater KaOtic Productions Epidemie Records Soyuz Music
Associated Acts:	Thy Catafalque Gort The Moon and the Nightspirit Nebron Gire Darklight Towards Rusted Soil Woodland Choir Taranis Mocun
Website:	http://www.myspace.com/tamaskatai

Tamás Kátai is a Hungarian avant-garde musician and professional photographer.^[1] He has been in a number of different bands, including the avant-garde post-black metal group Thy Catafalque, and has also released solo material.

During the 2010s Kátai used to reside in Edinburgh. Beside his musical career, he has also worked as English teacher and as a professional language interpreter for NHS. By the 2020s, he moved back to Hungary.

Discography

As a member

Darklight (solo)

• Holocaust in Fairyland – Demo, 1994
• The Shades Inside – Demo, 1994
• Aeternus – Demo, 1995
• Tinctures of Nightfall – Demo, 1995
• In Igne Et Terra – Demo, 1996
• Feast of November Dawn – Demo, 1997
• Virrasztanak a holtak... – EP, 1999
• Theatrum October – Full-length, 1999

Gire

• Energire – Demo, 1999
• Hét Madár – Demo, 2000
• Metabiosis – Demo, 2002
• V – Demo, 2003
• Nádak, erek – Demo, 2004
• Gire – Full-length, 2007

Gort

• Forest Myths – EP, 2000

Tamás Kátai (solo)

• Erika Szobája – Full-length, 2006
• Slower Structures – Full-length, 2016
• Jupiter 92 – Full-length, 2022

Thy Catafalque

• Cor Cordium – Demo, 1999
• Sublunary Tragedies – Full-length, 1999
• Microcosmos – Full-length, 2001
• Tűnő Idő Tárlat – Full-length, 2004
• Róka Hasa Rádió – Full-length, 2009
• Rengeteg – Full-length, 2011
• Sgùrr – Full-length, 2015
• Meta – Full-length, 2016
• Geometria – Full-length, 2018
• Naiv – Full-length, 2020
• Vadak – Full-length, 2021
• Alföld – Full-length, 2023

Neolunar

• Neolunar – Full-length, 2016

Towards Rusted Soil (solo)

• Forsaken in Fog – Demo, 2000
• A Landscape Slumbering – Demo, 2003

Guest appearance

Nebron

• Promo 2000 – Demo, 2000

CasketGarden

• Incompleteness in Absence – Full-length, 2008

Awards

• Hungarian Metal Awards 2007 – best metal album of the year (Gire "Gire").^[2]

See also

• List of ambient music artists

External links

• Tamás Kátai MySpace page
• Tamás Kátai photo gallery
• Tamás Kátai Encyclopaedia Metallum page

Notes and References

1. https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Tam%C3%A1s_K%C3%A1tai/8107 Encyclopaedia Metallum page
2. http://www.hang-suly.hu/HangSuly07_eredmeny.php