Pipeman Interviews Thy Catafalque at Hellfest 2025

0:04 Hi, you love Len too, Yes, that's true. For why were you young? This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, And I'm here. With Tomash from that fuck Nice here at hell Fest. And it surely is hell, isn't it?

0:44 It is very hot? Yes, you know? Will you be here tonight? Yes? I will be here tonight. Yeah, we leave tomorrow. Have you been to this festival? But no, this is the first time for me. So tonight they have fire that goes shooting up all over the festival. So it really does feel like you're in hell. Yeah, just to be even more hot, Yeah, exactly. So tell us for the lessens that aren't familiar with your music, how you the artists would describe it. I don't know. I just describe it as music. But okay, it means nothing at all. So it's avant god metal, that's what they try to say about that. But it just means that it's a bit like there's no rules. I like that the music.

1:26 Itself, so it's based I think it's based on black metal basically, because that's how we started. Yeah, and now it's getting more adventurous and more colorful. I love it and That's why I asked the artists, because genres to me are dumb. They box you in as an artist, like you want to experiment. Yes, But when we started, we really just wanted to play back metal. Yeah, So we wanted to play that kind of music. So what made you expand beyond that? Just getting older and getting more interested in the world itself. Yeah, And that's how the music itself got more colorful. And I think that that's it. That's it. I changed personally, and that's like all of us, right, But I still love black metal, and there are black metal elements in the music, so the root is still the same. I think it just got more enriched, if it makes sense.

2:17 Yeah. And I think also it makes you more unique because nowadays it's probably compared years ago, a lot of black metal is using like formulas, so they all sound very similar. So I like the uniqueness of somebody that blends other elements in. Yeah. And probably it helps that we sing in Hungarian and it's a bit of weird language for everyone, and it makes the music a bit more exotic probably or more interesting for other people. So there's a blow your mind when you're in other countries and they're saying they're basically they know what's going on they're singing back to I'm. Not sure they know what's going on next, right, but yeah, it's a great thing too to hear people singing in Hungarian without knowing the.

3:03 Exactly right, that's where it's themselves. It's cool. Yeah, how far are you from budapeshe. How far I am from? Right now? Well, where you are from or where? Okay, Well I live in Budapest, Oh you do, I do, But I was. Born in Mokul, which is a small town near the Romanian border south Hungary. It's like two hundred kilometers from Budapest, and my family is still there. I usually go back visiting them. I still love the town. But now I have been living in Budapest for seven years. Right, I love it there, as you can probably tell i've been there, because most Americans call it Budapest. Yes, it's not only Americans.

3:44 Oh, it's everybody else too. And my friend from high school he's lived there for many years. He does sound for a lot of bands over there, so I went visited him. I love the city like I would live. Tourists love there. Yeah, it's funny. We were sitting out on the Danube and we're just sitting. Some guy walks by and I wasn't paying attention. Really, he goes, yeah, that's what's his name from Red Hot JOEI Peppers just walk by okay. And I'm like okay. And apparently they love it there, like that's our favorite place. Yes, yeah, it's weird. I know in Hungary that they love the city. Yeah. Yeah. So what else do you have going on through the rest of the year that you want people to know about.

4:25 Well, we will have another festival in Saturday, and then in August we'll have some more festivals, and then the big thing for us is October when we are supposed to make a touring Latin America. Oh nice. So we're still. Under construction, but it seems like we'll have five to six gigs from Mexico to Brazil or Argentina. I'm not sure about the last venue, but yet it's gonna be a big thing for us. Have you played Brazil before? No? Never, I never left Europe before. Every artist that I know, that's your favorite place to play because the people are so into the music.

5:06 Yeah, but the distances are huge. Yeah. I was scared to look at the map when I got the planet. Every everyday different country and the countries are so massive. Yeah, so I have no idea how to make it actually, but I trust our people. There you go. So, was there a moment in life where years ago that you realized this is what you needed to do. No, And I've never planned it because the band have not played live for twenty one years right at all, So we didn't have such a plan to put this whole thing on stage. And then all of a sudden it happened because of some accident, and then I found myself on stage. The story about the accident, it.

5:48 Was one of my friends, well I didn't even know at that time, but he approached me to ask for permission to play the songs live with other musicians, and I said, there's no need for permission for that. Just do whatever you want to. I'm excited that, but I don't want to go on stage because I'm not interested in playing live. But it turned out that I had to go on stage as well at the end of the day for three songs, and I realized it was fun. So since then we put together its band and for the last three years we are having rehearsals and we play gigs, and now it seems like there's bigger and bigger gigs for us. So it's been a journey. But it was not expected to be like this at all.

6:30 So do you feel like now like, wow, maybe I should have been doing this all long. No, I just want to do it as long as it's fun. And now it's fun, it's still fun. It has to be fun. It has to be fun. Otherwise, why exactly this is the wrong business if you're not having fun? Yeah, and probably there will be one point where it's not fun anymore. I don't know, but I'm still enjoying it. So and of course playing at venues like this and festivals like this is big. But you know it has its price, Yeah, because you have to take your time, a lot of energy and money invested in it. Other people, A lot of people are working on it, not only myself. We are to have people in the production team, a lot of work from everyone else. I think a lot of people don't realize the amount of work that goes into what you do.

7:13 Yeah, And that kind of time and work is taken from your personal life, yes, and you end up like being lone or being lonely or whether it and even for. Us and it's not a we play twelve gigs per year. Or something, It's not a big right number at all, but even I feel the weight of it. What is fun about it for you? Why it's going on stage, just playing the songs and for that one hour is quite a sort of experience that you never can have from anything else. And I do enjoy like going to different places and visiting cities and countries I have never seen before. Probably I enjoy it even more than being on stage, like to get to places. Yeah, if you get into Latin America, I would never go myself because why and how. But with the band, I can get to I don't know, Costa Rica, and I can get to Chile, and.

8:05 It's I love Costa Rica. Yeah, I've never been there, so it's an adventure. When are you playing in Costa Rica in October? You'll be in coast in octobera yes, yeah, oh, maybe I'll have to go down there and see you there because I go there all the time. I love it there. So has it changed your viewpoint of other countries? Because I know, like for me, the first time I ever left the United States, and came to Europe. I was like scratching my head. I'm like, what were they talking about, because people in my country would say, oh, don't go anywhere else, it's scary out there, all right. And then I came to Europe, I'm like, man, I love it here and it's not scary at all. It happened to me when I moved because I was living in Scotland for ten years and before that I never left Hungary at all. I was thirty three when I left for Scotland, and it changed my perspective on the world, right because I met other cultures, not only Scottish people, not only British people, but other people as well. Yeah, and it has changed my perception, which is not possible when you live in the same town.

9:10 All your life. So that's all you know. Yes, And of course. I think it's a very useful thing to visit countries, visit other cultures and know other people, different people than. You, Yeah, and what they go through and nerd thought processes. I've experienced that myself. I know people in the United States they never even left their street, their whole Yes, we have. The same in Hungary, and I think it's not another healthy way of life probably, but for some it works very well. I don't want to help people how to live their lives. I think for myself, I was lucky to get out a bit, yeah, but otherwise if I would have stayed at home, probably I would be happy as well.

9:52 So what was the first album you ever listened to? What I remember is I was listening to a lot of computer music because I was into I had a ZX Spectrum computer. I don't know if you're old enough to know about that. I'm fifty eight, so okay, I'm fifty almost fifty. But other than that normal music, I think it was Jean Michel Jar from France and Craftwerk from Germany. Remember Craft and I. Was listening to the Bench Machine. It was great. I really loved that album, so I think it was one of my most influential albums. And Jar as well, the first two albums Oxygen and Equinox and d in France now, so it's nice to mention him and the metal wise, I remember the first album I was listening to.

10:35 It was a German metal band called storm Witch and it was a heavy metal band and they released the live album from Budapest. It was a. I think it was an unofficial or unofficial live album, and it was sold for a reduced price on vinyl and on cassette. So I bought a cassette for thirty Hungarian fourant, which was very cheap even then, and I was listening it for the first time, and I really enjoyed it. And that was the first, my first encounter with that kind of music. So it's funny, my first encounter with black metal was with a band that probably most black metal bands would not consider black metal now, yes, but they were kind of like the first and that was Venom.

11:17 Okay, well, I think everyone considers Venom as the first wave of black metal. Yeah, first verse first. Right, And it's so funny because if I listen to them now and compared to the bands now that I listen to him, like wow, they kind of sound like poppy now, whereas rock. And roll is more rock and rolls, right, more traditional. Yeah, because I remember, Okay, so the owner of metal Blade Records, he owned a record store where I lived, and he introduced me, Hey, listen to this album, and we never saw anything like that in our life, like no, sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, Welcome to hell. Yeah. And the first time I heard that album, it like scared me because I'm reading the lyric. So I'm like, whoh because you didn't have it, And then I started to love it and I still want my.

12:05 Favorites this decay. But you were very young, yeah I was. I was probably like thirteen forty. Yeah, but whatever we listened to at that age, we'll stay with us forever. Yes, sure, it doesn't even matter what it is. Yeah, you're absolutely right. So anything else you want to share with the listeners that they should know that's coming up or anything, oh, well. We will play soon. So I'm getting excited now. And thank you very much for having me. Thank you as you're talking to and I hope you go and enjoyed the show. I will. I put you in my favorites there because I always like to see the artists that I'm interviewing. But more than that, I listened to your music, I'm like, oh, I have to go to that show. So thanks a lot for being here at Helfs and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

12:52 Thanks for having me. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on W four c u I Radio. H