Alastor Onwards and Downwards, Official Album Stream, Riding Easy Records

Order: Excelsior Its the hail of yore that one should go ever onward and upward. And so, fittingly Onwards and Downwards is the occultist Swedish band Alastors clever call to arms and also a reflection of our collective dark state of mind these days. If our last album Slave to the Grave were about death, this record is more about madness, says guitarist Hampus Sandell. You can look at the whole record as one persons gradual slip into insanity. An ongoing nightmare without end. It also sums up the state of the world around us as this year has clearly shown.