Unearthly Rites Ecdysis Black On White Splatter Vinyl Edition

Finland's UNEARTHLY RITES are preparing to release their debut album. On Ecdysis UNEARTHLY RITES' potent oldschool death metal songwriting offers a rallying cry against corporate greed andenvironmental negligence, with a scathing rebuke of those culpable of ecocide and climatedestruction.At the beating heart of Ecdysis lies UNEARTHLY RITES' insistence for a better world, with theperilous effects of capitalist interests taking precedence over nature and human life at thecore 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 bythe 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 toproceedings, with the rhythm section of bassist Vikman and guitarists Simo Perkiömäki andSanttu Markko evoking the genre's most brutish traits against Sisli Piisilä's visceral vocaldelivery. Despite their rage and despondency at institutional apathy on the title track and theharrowingly doomy highlight cut Sacrifice Zones, album closer Doomed shuns inaction andresigned complicitly by directly challenging the listener to choose their side for humanity'ssake and future.