Pre-order Tortural Symphony of the Flesh here:
https://www.svartrecords.com/en/product/unearthly-rites-tortural-symphony-of-the-flesh/14138
Stream “Solstice” here:
https://orcd.co/unearthlysolstice
“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.
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 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. 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
March:
12 Jyväskylä, Kramsu – w/ Vomit Hammer, Psykoosi
13 2026 Helsinki, Lepis – w/ Frigid Winter, Azatoth, Madella
14 Tampere, Vastavirta – w/ Frigid Winter, Svarta Havet, Madella
w/ Sonic Poison
April:
23 Stockholm, Sweden, Gula Villan
24 Borgholm, Sweden, Dyestad Bygata
25 Copenhagen, Denmark, Ungdomshuset
28 Bamberg, Germany, Unterste Brücke
29 Berlin, Germany, Köpi
30 Graz, Austria, Club Wakuum
May:
01 Brno, Czech
02 Gdansk, Poland, Paszcza
03 Kaunas, Lithuania, Lemmy
04 Latvia, TBA
05 Tallinn, Estonia, Ylase 12
Tortural Symphony of the Flesh is available on Svart exclusive Transparent Red/Black Smoke marble vinyl, limited Ultra Clear vinyl, Black vinyl, CD, and digital platforms. Release date April 3rd 2026.
Unearthly Rites:
Sisli (they/them) – Vocals
Simo (he/him) – Guitar
Santtu (he/him) – Guitar
Jennika (she/her) – Bass
Tapio (he/him) – Drums
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