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.
Unearthly Rites: Solstice (Official Visualiser)
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.
“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”, comments the band.
The album’s lead single Solstice is a song about death and returning home, a threshold passage in which life is returned to the soil through the obliteration of the ritual body in extreme winter cold. Slow heavy riffs that rip the skin, crush your bones and rot your intestines. Listen to Solstice NOW
The band 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.
UNEARTHLY RITES – LIVE
12.03.2026 Jyväskylä, Kramsu – w/ Vomit Hammer, Psykoosi
13.03.2026 2026 Helsinki, Lepis – w/ Frigid Winter, Azatoth, Madella
14.03.2026 Tampere, Vastavirta – w/ Frigid Winter, Svarta Havet, Madella
w/ Sonic Poison
23.04.2026 Stockholm, Sweden, Gula Villan
24.04.2026 Borgholm, Sweden, Dyestad Bygata
25.04.2026 Copenhagen, Denmark, Ungdomshuset
28.04.2026 Bamberg, Germany, Unterste Brücke
29.04.2026 Berlin, Germany, Köpi
30.04.2026 Graz, Austria, Club Wakuum
01.05.2026 Brno, Czech
02.05.2026 Gdansk, Poland, Paszcza
03.05.2026 Kaunas, Lithuania, Lemmy
04.05.2026 Latvia, TBA
05.05.2026 Tallinn, Estonia, Ylase 12
