Castle Premiere Video for “Down in the Cauldron Bog”; European Tour Starts Tonight
Tonight begins heavy duo Castle‘s latest European tour. Less than a week ago, they finished a run that took them coast to coast in Canada, rounding out in Toronto on Sept. 30. A little while after they return from overseas, they’ll do the West Coast with Mos Generator. After that? Japan.
If you don’t respect the living shit out of that, then I don’t know what you’re doing on this site.
To mark the occasion of Castle ending one tour and starting another, they today present a new video for “Down in the Cauldron Bog.” The track comes from 2016’s Welcome to the Graveyard (review pending, by which I mean it’ll be up with the batch on Friday), which was released by respected purveyor Ván Records in the dead heat of summer. The hard-touring outfit had of course already crossed coasts by then, appearing at Maryland Doom Fest (review here) at the end of June to sear the crowd with their signature blend of thrash, classic metal, eerie vibes and doom. The album, unsurprisingly, represents those perfectly as well.
And “Down in the Cauldron Bog” definitely shows it. With death as the central theme for its imagery, the track offers hooks, shred, groove and melody all in kind, all in a package of songwriting that most bands would collapse on themselves even trying to replicate. I’m sorry, but after seeing them live this summer, I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to talk about Castle again without thinking of them as being woefully underappreciated (I know the review certainly doesn’t; keep an eye out for it), and if you don’t believe me, just do yourself a favor and really dig into Welcome to the Graveyard and go catch them when they invariably roll through wherever you live, if not on this tour, then the next one or the one after that. They’ll get there sooner or later, no doubt.
Some comment from the band on the track and video and the upcoming tour dates follow the clip below.
Enjoy:
Castle, “Down in the Cauldron Bog” official video
Castle on “Down in the Cauldron Bog”:
“It’s fitting that we’re releasing the video for ‘Down in the Cauldron Bog’ as we kick off our European tour, since we actually wrote it while we were here in Europe last year. It was the first track we wrote for the new album and was really the catalyst that set the mood musically. The haunted melody seemed to come from the landscape and the inspiration for the words were from a book we were reading at the time, The Bog People. That idea mushroomed into a larger concept of death and rebirth that we used throughout the album and also serves as a backdrop to the video.”
Video directed by Jaan Silmberg for Pistoltrixx.
CASTLE European Tour Dates:
5.10 Prague, CZ – Modra Vopice
6.10 Budapest, HG – Durer Kert
7.10 Bucharest, RO – Old Grave Fest V
8.10 Volos, GR – Lab Art
9.10 Athens, GR – Death Disco
11.10 Parma, IT – Titty Twister *
12.10 Milan, IT – Lo Fi Club *
13.10 Freiburg, DE – White Rabbit Club *
14.10 Kassel, DE – Hammerschmeide *
15.10 Tilburg, NL – Little Devil *
16.10 Antwerp, BE – Desertfest Belgium
17.10 Aachen, DE – AZ *
18.10 Berlin, DE – Urban Spree
19.10 Olten, CH – Coq d’Or
20.10 Leipzig, DE – UT Connewitz (w/ Conan)
21.10 Hamburg, DE – Bambi Galore
22.10 Gothenburg, SE – Truckstop Alaska ^
23.10 Copenhagen, DK – KB18 ^
25.10 Gottingen, DE – Freihafen
26.10 Weimar, DE – Gerber3
27.10 Wroclaw, PL – Ciemna Strona Miasta
28.10 Poznan, PL – U Bazyla
29.10 Zielona Gora – Jazzkino
* w/ Universe217
^ w/ Year of the Goat
CASTLE w/ MOS GENERATOR:
11/25/2016 Funhouse – Seattle, WA
11/26/2016 The Shakedown – Bellingham, WA w/ Year Of The Cobra
11/27/2016 Obsidian – Olympia, WA w/ Year Of The Cobra
11/28/2016 High Water Mark – Portland, OR
11/29/2016 Old Nick’s – Eugene, OR
11/30/2016 G Street – Grant’s Pass, OR
12/01/2016 Thee Parkside – San Francisco, CA
12/02/2016 Blue Lagoon – Santa Cruz, CA
12/03/2016 The Garage – Ventura, CA
12/04 /2016The Complex – Los Angeles, CA
CASTLE w/ Guevnna:
12/08/2016 El Puente – Yokohama, JP
12/09/2016 Earthdo – Tokyo, JP
12/10/2016Osaka – Hokage, JP
12/11/2016 Huck Finn – Nagoya, JP
12/12/2016 Ruby Room – Tokyo, JP
