UNEARTHLY RITES delivers filthy, mold-ridden death metal deeply rooted in the muddy sewers of the Finnish DIY punk and hardcore scene. The band will release its second full-length album, "Tortural Symphony Of The Flesh", via Svart Records on April 3rd 2026.
Formed in 2020, UNEARTHLY RITES has previously released an EP (s/t, 2021) and one full-length album ("Ecdysis", 2024), which explored dystopian visions of colonialist greed and ecocide. The forthcoming second album expands and intensifies this thematic core; "Tortural Symphony of the Flesh" presents a total meltdown of nature, humanity, and machine, and of transgression, lust and power. Musically, the album advances the band’s crushing riffs and characteristically moldy grimness toward a more malicious and brutal soundscape. UNEARTHLY RITES does not merely document the atrocities of capitalist society but explicitly calls for action in defense of nature and the rights of ethnic, gender and sexual minorities.
The band comments: "'Tortural Symphony of the Flesh' deepens our critique of capitalist oppression as a force that devastates nature through ecocide, erodes minority rights, and promotes conservationist ideology that ultimately reinforces colonialist power. Nature and humanity are inseparably fused in imagery of metal, roots, mud, flesh, and ice, forming a visceral rejection of fossil-industrial society. Queer BDSM lust and the words of William Blake are offered as an antidote to the christofascist trajectory."
UNEARTHLY RITES will be promoting the upcoming album in Finland in March, followed by a release tour around Europe in April-May together with Sonic Poison delivering full speed combat grind.
Tracklist:
01. Tuonen tulijat, manan menijät 02. Sokli Fields Forever / A Radiative Picnic 03. Solstice 04. A Stygian Winterscape 05. Tortural Symphony of the Flesh 06. Ignis Fatuus 07. Metalli, liha, kone 08. Absurd Transgression 09. Not for the Weak 10. The Notion of Emerging Totalitarianis
Line-up:
Sisli (they/them) – Vocals Simo (he/him) – Guitar Santtu (he/him) – Guitar Jennika (she/her) – Bass Tapio (he/him) – Drums
