Photo: Jonathan Pushnik
Castle Rat are bringing the Realm back to North America. The Brooklyn fantasy-metal outfit have announced the Summon The Beast Tour, a 20-date headline run this fall that stands as the biggest of their career. It opens September 23rd in Baltimore, hits The Belasco in Los Angeles, and closes October 21st with a hometown show at the legendary Webster Hall in New York.
The run caps a breakout spring. Castle Rat spent six weeks opening the Amonklok Conquest, the Amon Amarth and Dethklok co-headline tour, playing to 75,000 people before closing the stretch with a sold-out 1,400-capacity headliner in Anaheim. We caught them at Brooklyn Paramount and named them a must-see at Sonic Temple ; both nights, the choreographed battle with the Rat Reaperess hit harder than a support slot has any right to. The band's mission, as the Rat Queen puts it, is to expand and defend the Realm from those who seek to destroy it, and the fall run reads like the next campaign.
The Bestiary, their second album, arrived in late 2025. Produced by Randall Dunn, whose credits include Sunn O))), Wolves in the Throne Room, and Björk, it confirmed that Into The Realm's 10 million Spotify streams were no fluke.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. Full dates below.
Castle Rat Headline Tour Dates:
Sep 23 - Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Soundstage
Sep 25 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
Sep 26 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
Sep 28 - Dallas, TX - The Studio at The Bomb Factory
Sep 30 - Mesa, AZ - The Nile Theater
Oct 1 - Los Angeles, CA - The Belasco
Oct 3 - Berkeley, CA - The UC Theatre
Oct 6 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
Oct 7 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox Market
Oct 9 - Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory
Oct 10 - Boise, ID - Shrine Social Club
Oct 11 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Grand
Oct 12 - Denver, CO - The Ogden Theatre
Oct 14 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theater
Oct 15 - Chicago, IL - Concord Music Hall
Oct 16 - Detroit, MI - The Majestic Theatre
Oct 17 - Toronto, ON - The Opera House
Oct 19 - Montreal, QC - Théâtre Beanfield
Oct 20 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium
Oct 21 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
