Castle share ‘Evil Nun’ video and announce UK/EU tour

US/Canadian heavy doom trio Castle have shared a new video for “Evil Nun” from their recently released album “Carrie Chains”.

Filmed as a tribute to crazy Italian cinema of the 1970s and 80s, the band teamed with director Brian Davis, a Brooklyn filmmaker and digital artist.

“The video is an opening credit sequence from an imagined movie called Sorella Malvagia. Part Fulci-apocalypse, part Pasolini-blasphemy; featuring a clairvoyant rock singer envisioning one of the seven doors to Hell opening under New York City. Meanwhile, Rasputin, still alive, controls a band of anarchic nuns terrorizing Brooklyn”.

Just announced! Castle is heading to the UK and Europe!

“On the heels of our new album “Carrie Chains” we are extremely excited to be able to play the new set in the UK and Europe. Come and experience the live ritual for yourself.

This will be our first proper tour of the UK after a lot of you have asked over the years and we couldn’t be more stoked… plus lots of new places in Europe including Into The Shadows 6.0 Fest in Tilburg and the already sold out Heavy Metal Thunder Fest in the Czech Republic. Grab an advance ticket and mark your calendars!”

San Francisco / Vancouver heavy metal doom merchants Castle have just released their newest album “Carrie Chains” on Hammerheart Records. The just announced UK and Europe legs of the tour follow the bands current blitz across the US and upcoming return to Japan in December, their first since 2016.

Order from Hammerheart Records here: https://castlesf.lnk.to/carriechains
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Upcoming US Dates:
Oct 29 Los Angeles – Knucklehead
Oct 30 San Diego – Tower Bar

Upcoming Japan dates:
Dec 05 Tokyo Doom Fest
Dec 06 Tokyo Doom Fest
Dec 07 Tokyo – Moonstep
Dec 08 Kyoto – Socrates
Dec 09 Kobe – Makeshift
Dec 10 Osaka – Hokage
Dec 11 Yokohama – El Puente
Dec 12 Tokyo – Hatsudai Wall
Dec 13 Nagoya – Huck Finn

From an overgrown fortress, high above the cliffs of black, the spellcasters of Doom are back with “Carrie Chains” their seventh album and second for Hammerheart Records. Raw, epic riff Heavy/Doom abounds on Castle’s catchy-as-hell “Carrie Chains”.

Castle conjures an epic and hard hitting album of eight taut spellbinders. A journey through a maze of evil doers, spears of burning gold and fire and crosses nailed to walls. Where only a murky lamp lights the path, and from the grave to your door – these hooks won’t leave you alone. 

“Carrie Chains” shows Castle at new heights of constructing their trademark serpentine riffs into powerful anthemic hooks while the whiskey throated vocals of powerhouse singer Liz Blackwell fill every spooky nook and cranny to intoxicating effect. Taking influence from the 70’s/80’s riff-heavy maestros like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Mercyful Fate and keeping a stripped down attack sound, Castle converged on RainCity Recorders in Vancouver B.C. this past March with producer Jesse Gander to record the albums epic anthems.

Written last year alongside the band’s all-covers E.P. “Double Vision”, and after more than a year of touring behind their last album “Evil Remains” – inspiration for “Carrie Chains” came fast and furious. Following the energy of the new songs through the recording process, Castle recorded live in the studio for the first time – with the band’s recording drummer Mike Cotton laying down a thunderous precision that harkens back to 80’s era Black Sabbath. 

Since storming out of San Francisco with their 2011 debut “In Witch Order” Castle has toured relentlessly, playing over 800 shows on three continents. The live ritual resumes this fall with tours of the US and Japan; and Europe to follow next spring.

Line up:
Liz Blackwell – Bass, vocals
Mat Davis – Guitar, vocals
Mike Cotton – Drums