CASTLE Announce European Tour; “Deadhand Hexagram” Single Streaming
April 21, 2015, 8 years ago
San Francisco-based doom tinged heavy metallers, Castle, have announced a string of European dates including appearances at Heavy Days in Doomtown Fest in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 30th and Van Records Acherontic Arts Fest in Oberhausen, Germany on May 1st.
Following a busy winter and spring touring Stateside in support of last year’s Under Siege, including an appearance at the 2015 SXSW Festival in Austin, TX, Castle are returning to Europe in support of their upcoming single “Deadhand Hexagram” b/w “Be My Ghost” (Reprise), scheduled for release via Van Records for the beginning of the tour on April 30th.
Recorded by Billy Anderson at Everything Hz in Portland in November 2014, the limited edition 7” features the new track, “Deadhand Hexagram” along with a re-working of their song “Be My Ghost” (Reprise) using only guitar, vocal and viola, supplied courtesy of former Witch Mountain vocalist, Uta Plotkin.
Guitarist Mat Davis explains: “The sparse instrumentation heightens the haunting effect of the melody and captures the song closer to how it was originally written. We were also lucky to be able to have Uta come in a build on that with some beautifully improvised viola that really plays off Liz’s vocal.”
“Deadhand Hexagram” can be heard below:
Tour dates:
April
30 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Heavy Days In Doomtown Fest
May
2 - Leiden, Netherlands - Gebr. de Nobel
3 - Tilburg, Netherlands - Little Devil
4 - Freiburg, Germany - Slow Club
6 - Mungia, Spain - Mungiarocks
8 - Udine, Italy - Cas'aupa
9 - Nasice, Croatia - Moby Dick
10 - Bucharest, Romania - Club Fabrica
11 - Budapest, Hungary - Dürer Kert
13 - Prague, Czech Republic - Exit Us
14 - Wroclaw, Poland - Liverpool
15 - Zielona Gora, Poland - 4 Róze dla Lucienne
16 - Poznan, Poland - Pod Minoga
17 - Szczecin, Poland - Rocker
18 - Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang
19 - Berlin, Germany - Cortina Bob
22 - Horst, Netherlands - Babouche
23 - London, England - Underworld
June
