Castle has released a video for “Hammer And The Cross”, a track from their upcoming fourth full-length, Welcome To The Graveyard, out on July 15th via Ván Records worldwide.

Directed by Jaan Silmberg of Pistoltrixx, "Hammer And The Cross" was shot north of Toronto, Ontario while the band was between recording and mixing sessions for Welcome To The Graveyard.

"The song “Hammer And The Cross” commands a lot of space and we wanted to find a location to match its starkness," elaborates vocalist Elizabeth Blackwell of the clip. "We filmed the video at an old, abandoned dairy farm north of Toronto in the middle of February in Canada. The cold, swirling imagery is a perfect complement to the hypnotic doomy sounds of the song. It was a successful collaboration with our director and a lot of fun to make."

Welcome To The Graveyard, the follow up to 2014's Under Siege, was recorded by Billy Anderson (Sleep, Neurosis, Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth, Eyehategod, Ommadon) at Type Foundry Studios in Portland, Oregon this past winter.

Comprised of eight tracks written over the last year, Welcome To The Graveyard sees Castle merging their doom-powered riffing with soaring 1970s rock. The album features a new level of confident songwriting and is a creepy-crawl through the wastelands of the band's new Los Angeles' ­­home. The perfect soundtrack for a Hollywood cult initiation, the record is a hard-boiled barrage of classic heavy metal riffery tempered with blasts of melodic orchestrated doom.

Elizabeth Blackwell's haunted vocal style draws a sigil of death and madness - envision the Wilson sisters singing hymns from the stygian void, while lyrically Castle adapt the stark and compelling vistas of Aleister Crowley's Amphora for the song "Traitors Rune" and Eliphas Levi's Transcendental Magic, whose mystic rumination inspiresthe lyrical backdrop for the lead-off single "Flash Of The Pentagram," currently streaming below.

Tracklisting:

“Black Widow”
“Hammer And The Cross”
“Welcome To The Graveyard”
“Veil Of Death”
“Flesh Of The Pentagram”
“Traitors Rune”
“Down In The Cauldron Bog”
“Natural Parallel”

“Flash Of The Pentagram”:

Castle’s live takeover includes a three-week run of tour dates around their appearance at the Maryland Doom Fest on June 24th, followed by a month-long headlining trek beginning July 17th and running through August 20th. From there, the band will take a week-long breather before heading to the streets again for a month's worth of Canadian dates through September 29th.

Tour dates:

June
15 - Yucca Tap - Phoenix, AZ
16 - The Sandbox - El Paso, TX
17 - Paper Tiger - San Antonio, TX
18 - Rudyards - Houston, TX
19 - Siberia - New Orleans, LA
20 - New World Brewery - Tampa, FL
21 - Burro Bar - Jacksonville, FL
22 - The Jinx - Savannah, GA
23 - Reggies - Wilmington, NC
24 - Maryland Doom Fest - Frederick, MD
25 - Ace of Cups - Columbus, OH
26 - 5th Quarter - Indianapolis, IN
27 - Skeletunes - Ft. Wayne, IN
28 - Vaudeville - Des Moines, IA
29 - O'Leaver's - Omaha, NE
30 - Flux Capacitor - Colorado Springs, CO

July
1 - Metro Bar - Salt Lake City, UT
2 - Chateau le Punk - Las Vegas, NV
17 - Slidebar - Fullerton, CA #
19 - Mission Tobacco - Riverside, CA  #
20 - Elbo Room - San Francisco, CA #
21 - Hi Water Mark - Portland, OR #
22 - Funhouse - Seattle, WA  #
23 - The Palace Lounge - Missoula, MT #
24 - Railyard - Billings, MT #
26 - Reggies - Chicago, IL *
27 - High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI *
28 - Franks Power Plant - Milwaukee, WI  *
29 - Shakespeare Pub - Kalamazoo, MI *
30 - Corktown Tavern - Detroit, MI *
31 - Howlers - Pittsburgh, PA *^

August
1 - Now That's Class - Cleveland, OH ^
2 - Rockin Buffalo Saloon - Buffalo, NY ^
3 - Geno's - Portland, ME ^ w/ Hessian
4 - Ralph's - Worcester, MA ^ w/ Pilgrim
5 - Acheron - Brooklyn, NY ^ w/ Pilgrim
6 - The Fire - Philadelphia, PA ^ w/ Pilgrim
7 - TBA - Washington, DC
8 - Riffhouse Pub - Chesapeake, VA
9 - Pilot Light - Knoxville, TN
10 - The End - Nashville, TN
11 - Vino's - Little Rock, AR
12 - The Grotto - Ft. Worth, TX
13 - The Lost Well - Austin, TX
14 - The Elbow Room - Wichita, KS
16 - The Underground - Santa Fe, NM
17 - The Launchpad - Albuquerque, NM
18 -  Flycatcher - Tucson, AZ
19 - The Merrow - San Diego, CA
20 - The Complex - Los Angeles, CA
27 - Doom Over T.O. Fest - Toronto, ON

September
7 - Katacombes - Montreal, PQ
8 - Envol at Macadam Fest - Quebec City, PQ
9 - Panic Room - St. John, NB
10 - Gus Pub - Halifax, NS
11 - Baba's - Charlottetown, PEI
12 - Capitol Complex - Fredericton, NB
13 - Ti-Petac - Trois Rivieres, PQ
14 - House Of Targ - Ottawa, ON
16 - Black Pirates Pub - Thunder Bay, ON
17 - King's Hotel - Winnipeg, MB
18 - TBA - Saskatoon, SK
19 - Starlite Room - Edmonton, AB
20 - Fernando's - Kelowna, BC
21 - The Office Pub - Kamloops, BC
22 - Funky Winkerbeans - Vancouver, BC
23 - Logans Pub - Victoria, BC
24 - Palomino - Calgary, AB
26 - The Club - Regina, SK
28 - New American - Sault Ste. Marie, ON
29 - Call The Office - London, ON

# w/ Disenchanter
* w/ Brimstone Coven
^ w/ Blizaro