{"title":"Unearthly Rites","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ecdysis-5","title":"Ecdysis","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinland’s UNEARTHLY RITES are preparing to release their debut album, Ecdysis, on May 3 via their new label home Prosthetic Records. On Ecdysis UNEARTHLY RITES’ potent old school death metal songwriting offers a rallying cry against corporate greed and environmental negligence, with a scathing rebuke of those culpable of ecocide and climate destruction. At the beating heart of Ecdysis lies UNEARTHLY RITES’ insistence for a better world, with the perilous effects of capitalist interests taking precedence over nature and human life at the core of the group’s concerns. Through their collective work in environmental activism, including anti-mining campaigns in the arctic north that focuses on the challenges faced by the indigenous Sámi peoples, Ecdysis is less a despairing cry as it is a plea for change. The band’s caustic approach to extreme metal and punk adds a feverish urgency to proceedings, with the rhythm section of bassist Vikman and guitarists Simo Perkiömäki and Santtu Markko evoking the genre’s most brutish traits against Sisli Piisilä’s visceral vocal delivery. Despite their rage and despondency at institutional apathy on the title track and the harrowingly doomy highlight cut Sacrifice Zones, album closer Doomed shuns inaction and resigned complicitly by directly challenging the listener to choose their side for humanity’s sake and future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prosthetic Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50413229965643,"sku":"2194730","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50413229834571,"sku":"2194723","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Ecdysis_241062db_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726671986"},{"product_id":"tortural-symphony-of-the-flesh-yc","title":"Tortural Symphony Of The Flesh","description":"\u003cp\u003eRaw old school Death, Grind, and Crust – UNEARTHLY RITES’ second album out in April via Svart Records 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. “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 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. Tour dates can be found on the band's social media.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Svart","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":56774337200459,"sku":"R9395-2112","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56774337233227,"sku":"R9395-4896","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Ultra Clear","offer_id":56774337265995,"sku":"R9395-8034","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a1800479591_10.jpg?v=1773257124"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/unearthly-rites.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}