{"id":13612,"date":"2026-01-23T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/?p=13612"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:12:49","slug":"release-announcement-unearthly-rites-tortural-symphony-of-the-flesh-cs-digi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/release-announcement-unearthly-rites-tortural-symphony-of-the-flesh-cs-digi\/","title":{"rendered":"RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT: UNEARTHLY RITES &#8220;Tortural Symphony Of The Flesh&#8221; CS \/ DIGI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ICA-063_unearthlyrites_mockup_set-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ICA-063_unearthlyrites_mockup_set-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ICA-063_unearthlyrites_mockup_set-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ICA-063_unearthlyrites_mockup_set-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ICA-063_unearthlyrites_mockup_set-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ICA-063_unearthlyrites_mockup_set-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ICA-063_unearthlyrites_mockup_set-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ICA-063_unearthlyrites_mockup_set.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IRON CORPSE to release the cassette version of UNEARTHLY RITES second album &#8220;Tortural Symphony Of The Flesh&#8221;, out April 3rd 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 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\u2019s 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. \u201cTortural 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\u201d, 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&#8217;s social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Preorder will be opened later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First single &#8220;Solstice&#8221; streaming on YouTube, Bandcamp and digital platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UNEARTHLY RITES &quot;Solstice&quot; (Official Track Premiere from &quot;Tortural Symphony Of The Flesh&quot;)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fAdwRPMK-Xk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRON CORPSE to release the cassette version of UNEARTHLY RITES second album &#8220;Tortural Symphony Of The Flesh&#8221;, out April 3rd 2026. 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 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iron-corpse-productions-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13615,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612\/revisions\/13615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironcorpse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}