Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Doom/Heavy Metallers CASTLE is heading to the UK and Europe!


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.

Castle comments:

“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!”

Order “Carrie Chains” here: https://castlesf.lnk.to/carriechains
Order “Carrie Chains” at the band here: https://castlesf.bandcamp.com/album/carrie-chains

‘Carrie Chains’ UK/EU Tour 2027

26.2 UK London – tba
27.2 UK Bristol – Gryphon
28.2 UK Portsmouth – Kola Basement
01.3 UK Newcastle – Cluny 2
02.3 UK Edinburgh – Bannerman’s
03.3 UK Coventry – Arches Venue
04.3 UK Norwich – Voodoo Daddy’s
05.3 NL Tilburg – Into The Shadows 6.0 Fest
06.3 TBA
07.3 BE Fontaine L’eveque – MC Apache
08.3 LU Belval – Mix N’Kawa
09.3 DE Kusel – Kinnett
10.3 DE Bochum – Live Embassy
11.3 DE Stuttgart – Schwarzer Keiler
12.3 AT Wien – Arena
13.3 CZ Pisek – Heavy Metal Thunder Fest
14.3 SK Bratislava – Pink Whale
15.3 HU Budapest – Riff Budapest
16.3 SI Ljubljana – Channel Zero
17.3 IT Bologna – Freakout
18.3 TBA
19.3 IT Lecco – Circola Libero Pensiero
20.3 CH St Gallen – Rumpeltum
21.3 DE Freiburg – Slow Club
22.3 DE Kassel – Goldgrube
23.3 TBA
24.3 NL Arnhem – Willimeen
25.3 DE Hamburg – Bambi Galore
26.3 DE Berlin – Neue Zukunft
27.3 DE Dresden – Die Rock & Metalbar

Upcoming US Dates:

23.10 US Seattle – Funhouse
24.10 US Portland – High Water Mark
25.10 US San Francisco – Bottom Of The Hill
26.10 US Palmdale – Transplants Brewing
27.10 US Las Vegas – The Griffin
28.10 US Phoenix – Last Exit
29.10 US Los Angeles – Knucklehead
30.10 US San Diego – Tower Bar

Upcoming Japan dates:

5.12 JP Tokyo Doom Fest
6.12 JP Tokyo Doom Fest
7.12 JP Tokyo – Moonstep
8.12 JP Kyoto – Socrates
9.12 JP Kobe – Makeshift
10.12 JP Osaka – Hokage
11.12 JP Yokohama – El Puente
12.12 JP Tokyo – Hatsudai Wall
13.12 JP Nagoya – Huck Finn

The Lowdown


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

Key sales & marketing points:

* Follow up album to 2024’s Evil Remains
* Castle has a U.S. tour in September/October, a Japan tour in December and a Europe tour in March 2027
Recorded at RainCity Recorders in Vancouver B.C. by producer Jesse Gander (Anciients, 3 Inches Of Blood, Brutus)
* Castle has shared the stage with bands like The Obsessed, Anvil, The Skull, Pentagram, The Sword, Goatsnake and more!
* “Carrie Chains” will be available on Digipack CD, Longbox 2-CD (with the “Double Vision” as bonus CD) and LP on various color variants.
* The Longbox 2-CD and the LP version comes with a poster

For fans of: Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Danzig, Motörhead

Link: https://castlesf.lnk.to/carriechains

Tracklist:

1. Fooled Again
2. 3 Knocks
3. Carry Chains
4. Evil Nun
5. Truckgrinder
6. Orb Weaver
7. Goat Vision
8. Burn The Messenger

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