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New York’s medieval fantasy doom metal band Castle Rat share new live performance video for the track »Feed The Dream«


Photos by Brendan Thomas

Brooklyn, New York based medieval fantasy doom metal band Castle Rat has released new live performance video for the track »Feed The Dream« from »Into The Realm« album release show at Brooklyn Made in April 2024.

Castle Rat’s debut album »Into The Realm« dropped on April 12th, 2024 via King Volume Records, Wise Blood Records and Kozmik Artifactz.

Castle Rat is a medieval fantasy doom metal band hailing from Brooklyn, NY, led by ‘The Rat Queen’, Riley Pinkerton on rhythm guitar and lead vocals. On her mission to expand and defend ‘The Realm’ from those who seek to destroy it, The Rat Queen is joined by ‘The Count’ (Franco Vittore on lead guitar and backing vocals), ‘The Plague Doctor’ (Charley Ruddell on bass) and ‘The Druid’ (Joshua Strmic on drums). Together they face the relentless wrath of their arch nemesis: Death Herself – ‘The Rat Reaperess’.

Along their journey Castle Rat has toured American Southwest, played DesertFest NYC (Melvins/Boris/Monster Magnet) and played as support for Monolord, Firebreather, Stonefield & The Well, with their debut LP »Into The Realm« set to release in April 2024. Since the band’s pre-plague inception in October 2019, Castle Rat has forged an album and curated a live performance to satisfy those who crave swords & sorcery; stoner & doom; battle-babes & beasts; Frazetta & Sabbath.

The highly anticapated debut record from the New York fantasy doom rockers, is finally here!

True to the band’s ethos, »Into The Realm« was recorded in an abandoned Philadelphia church the band temporarily converted into a studio. Among the flooded floors, decaying plaster, and ornate stained glass windows, the band stacked their Orange amps and tracked over two and half days, with engineering and production assistance from Davis Shubs and Thomas Johnsen.

Castle Rat is:
Riley Pinkerton (Rat Queen) – Vocals, Guitar
Franco Vittore (Count) – Lead Guitar
Ronnie Lanzilotta III (Plague Doctor) – Bass
Josh Strmic (The All-Seeing Druid) – Drums
Maddy Wright (The Rat Reapress) – Stage Actress

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well

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