UNEARTHLY RITES is a Death Metal band from Finland. Therefore, there is not much to explain about them. Despite being a band from 2020, they sound like that classic, traditional, well-founded and robust Death Metal from the genre’s beginnings in their country. In this April of 2026, the band presents, via Svart Records, their second full-length titled “Tortural Symphony Of The Flesh”. An album that gets straight to the point and is circumscribed within that spectrum of Death Metal that (even without surprises) never stops doing what a Death Metal album is supposed to do. As one progresses through the album, one enters as if into an already known but pleasant tunnel with the perfect temperature to spend the night. As soon as one listens to the first song of the album, ‘Tuonen Tulijat, Manan Menijät’, which, by the way, has to be translated because it is Finnish, one immediately understands what this is about. UNEARTHLY RITES did not come into the world to reinvent the wheel. They came to raise their voice in the vast universe of Death Metal and to say “present”. The songs are powerful, solid, with temperament and effective. They trace back to strong sonorities and have the right rawness and tempo. The voice is there to do its job. Sometimes torn and generally, with the gutturality on point. The guitars appear and disappear like warhorses. The drums mark the clock of the album, second by second, measure by measure and the bass rumbles as if from the caverns. This is a compact band. That has things clear and doesn’t play games. It is aggressive when it has to be. It tightens and loosens at the right time and transmits the feeling of asphyxiation that a band of this style typically transmits. That is what it feels like when listening to a song like ‘Ignis Fatuus’. I also like that in certain passages they adhere characteristic elements of Death / Doom to the album, making the album a rich, diverse and always provocative album. A song like ‘Metalli, Liha, Kone’ describes what I mean. I will end with the song that closes the album: ‘The Notion Of Emerging Totalitarianis’. A rabid song, very Death Metal, and that keeps the symmetries exactly where they belong. Centimeter by centimeter. A song that maintains an infinite tension until it dilutes in time. Excellent album. More information here: www.facebook.com/unearthlyrites666, www.facebook.com/svartrecords