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Melancholic Rites is the second album from Finnish duo Worthless, who've been stalwarts of the big wave of new Finnish Death Metal acts since their demo Beaten by Life. There's no big changes to their sound to be found on here, which is basically a mix of Punk-fueled Death Metal and the unrelenting heaviness of Celtic Frost, but when you have a winning formula that no one else does better, why fix what's not broken? You get everything from catchy skull crushers like opener "Carnival of Sin" and "Lunatic", punky numbers like "Seeds of Degeneration" and "Choreomania", and sinister tracks like the eerie, experimental album closer "The Last Exit" and the doomy, Frost-esque showstopper "Melancholia Metamorphosis", and they're all exercises in dark, dramatic, absolutely pitiless Death Metal that would make Tom G. Warrior proud. Fans of the band can get this sight unseen, and anyone looking for Death Metal that's as primordial as it is novel needs to check this band out.