{"id":84902,"date":"2021-03-17T17:46:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T22:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=84902"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T22:46:05","slug":"alastor-premiere-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=84902","title":{"rendered":"ALASTOR &#8211; Premiere New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Swedish sludge quartet ALASTOR premiered a new song called &#8220;Death Cult&#8221;, taken from their upcoming new album &#8220;Onwards and Downwards&#8221;, slated to be out on May 28th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Check out &#8220;Death Cult&#8221; below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter 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=\"Alastor - Death Cult | Onwards and Downwards | RidingEasy Records\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSY8MGYI1m0?list=PLWbhBVuEuDkVev9G4RK7OTXvT4W0F6Zks\" 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\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Excelsior! It\u2019s the hail of yore that one should go ever onward and upward. And so, fittingly Onwards and Downwards is the occultist Swedish band Alastor\u2019s clever call to arms\u2026 and also a reflection of our collective dark state of mind these days. \u201cIf our last album Slave to the Grave were about death, this record is more about madness,\u201d says guitarist Hampus Sandell. \u201cYou can look at the whole record as one person\u2019s 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.\u201d Alastor is heavy doom rock for the wicked and depraved. Drenched in heavy, distorted darkness and steeped in occult horror that will make your skin crawl and ears cry sweet tears of blood, the band is revitalized in 2021 with meticulously crafted songs and new drummer Jim Nordstr\u00f6m bringing a hard-hitting and precise energy. \u201cIt\u2019s a more focused record but at the same time it\u2019s more personal and naked. More raw emotion and pain,\u201d Hampus says. The band recorded the album with the help of Joona Hassinen of Studio Underjord, who has helped with mixing since their \u201dBlood on Satan\u2019s Claw\u201d EP in 2017. Christoffer Karlsson of The Dahmers also assisted with overdubs and encouraged the band to demo the material early on, aiding in the album\u2019s more deliberate and tighter feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish sludge quartet ALASTOR premiered a new song called &#8220;Death Cult&#8221;, taken from their upcoming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84904,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84902\/revisions\/84904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}