Castle

San Francisco-based outfit Castle is a doom metal band that formed in 2009. Fronted by female vocalist Elizabeth Blackwell, the band released its 2011 debut album, In Witch Order, and captured the metal scene's attention with its seamless fusion of doom and death metal. The record reached beyond the US and into European audiences, particularly after it was named album of the year by one of Norway's leading metal magazines, Metal Hammer Norway. Castle dropped its follow-up record, Blacklands, in 2012.