Emerging from New York’s vile, creature-infested underground, Castle Rat return with ‘The Bestiary’, a sweeping fantasy-metal odyssey that deepens their labyrinth of lore. Guided by The Rat Queen—joined by The Count, The Plague Doctor, and The All-Seeing Druid—the band channels their mythic battles against The Rat Reaperess into a collection of heavy, spellbound narratives. Recorded by Randall Dunn and mixed by Jonathan Nuñez, the album fuses towering doom-laden riffs, mystical atmospheres, and theatrical storytelling into a fully realized conceptual work. Each song functions as an entry in a magical “book of beasts,” recounting the forgotten creatures whose final souls have been gathered and preserved by The Wizard, their cautionary tales woven through traditional heavy metal power and dark enchantment.

As they rise from underground cult heroes to international festival stages, Castle Rat deliver their most ambitious vision yet. ‘The Bestiary’ balances epic carnage with hypnotic mysticism, shifting between molten riff worship, psychedelic shadows, and medieval fantasy drama. It captures a band expanding their Realm with absolute conviction—summoning phoenixes, serpents, spectral wolves, and hidden chambers in an immersive journey designed for devotees of myth, metal, and the occult. A formidable second chapter from one of heavy metal’s most imaginative new forces.

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