San Francisco, California based Heavy/Doom Metal trio Castle has announced their first live album, “One Knight Stands: Live In NY,” which will be released on April 1st, 2024 via Black Wren Records / Ván Records.
Says the band: “We’re stoked to finally be releasing our first live album! »One Knight Stands: Live In NY« was recorded live on the 2017 Welcome To The Graveyard tour and features tracks from our first 4 records. You can preorder the limited edition vinyl now from our own newly formed Black Wren Records Bandcamp. For our European friends, Ván Records will be putting up a presale to save on overseas shipping.
Appreciate everybody that’s checked out and pre-ordered the new live album so far! Still vinyl available from us and Ván Records in EU. Here’s a new video for the song ‘Flash Of The Pentagram.’”
Watch the official video for the track “Flash Of The Pentagram Live” through the YouTube player below:
Heavy metal doomsters Castle are pleased to announce the release of their first official live album »One Knight Stands: Live In NY«.
Recorded during Castle’s Welcome To The Graveyard Tour in Brooklyn, NY on September 18, 2017, the 10 track album draws on songs from each of the band’s first four albums and captures the three-piece at the height of their road hardened power.
“We’re happy to finally put this out as a document to all the miles travelled and time spent playing night after night,” the band states. “We think this album is a pretty accurate snapshot of the band onstage; no overdubs, no edits, just live and loud and we thought it would be cool to share that.”
“One Knight Stands: Live In NY” is available for preorder from the band’s own newly formed imprint, Black Wren Records on limited edition vinyl as well as digital. Additionally, the band has released an advance streaming single “Flash Of The Pentagram (Live).”
Pre-Order the album on Bandcamp: https://castlesf.bandcamp.com/album/one-knight-stands-live-in-ny
European pre-orders through Ván Records can be found HERE
Castle have also recently completed recording their newest studio album. Recorded and mixed during October and November of 2023 at Rain City Recorders in Vancouver, BC with producer Jesse Gander (Anciients, Brutus, 3 Inches Of Blood), the as-yet-untitled album will mark the band’s sixth, and follows 2018’s “Deal Thy Fate” and 2016’s “Welcome To The Graveyard.”
Tracklist:
01. Black Widow
02. Down In The Cauldron Bog
03. Hammer And The Cross
04. Flash Of The Pentagram
05. A Killing Pace
06. Corpse Candles
07. Temple Of The Lost
08. Dying Breed
09. Evil Ways
10. Total Betrayal
Castle was forged in San Francisco in 2009 and released its debut full-length, In Witch Order, via Germany’s Ván Records in 2011. The album brought light to the newly-formed band and earned them “Album Of The Year” honors from Metal Hammer Norway. Shortly thereafter, Castle joined the Prosthetic Records roster in North America and released both their critically-acclaimed sophomore album Blacklands, which led to a Canadian JUNO nomination for “Metal/Hard Music Album Of The Year”, and 2014’s follow-up, Under Siege.
Since the release of its first album, Castle has maintained a relentless tour schedule, performing over six hundred shows worldwide alongside the likes of The Sword, Conan, Intronaut, The Skull and Pentagram, among many others. The group has appeared at numerous underground music festivals including Roadburn, the London and Berlin Desertfests and recently completed its first-ever tour of Japan.