Reviews list for Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg (2011)

I don't follow Thy Catafalque very often, but I'm familiar with the way they work. The truth is that I don't entirely agree with the "prog" and "avant-garde" tags, since the structures of most of these songs feel so typical. But that doesn't mean the album isn't weird. Rengeteg's tracks aren't always wild and unpredictable, but they certainly are weird. The first track blasts you with a powerful combination of black metal and death metal, and afterwards we have heavy metal songs with occasional straying into Hungarian folk and dungeon synth, making for a truly Gothic album that plays around with music like an imp trying out different black magic spells. And the more the album plays around, the better it gets. It's probably a lightweight album for people wanting to get into experimental music, but that's what makes it a good introduction album at the very least.