AGITATORS ANONYMOUS the Alan Averill Podcast

Does everything have to be political....all of the time? After the recent, largely manufactured drama over a statement by James Hetfield to the contrary I look at the backlash, how much of it is real, what the freezing effect is and why it's perfectly find to not signal to any tribe and not be interested in politics. the show is looking for sponsors....if you think this is something you are in...

another legend has left the building, Cronos from Venom. Taken way too early. Venom were probably the most important band in my development as young metalhead, the rock upon which the church was built, so to say, so I put some random thoughts together for today's episode apologies for the slightly odd sound, this was recorded remotely Today's sponsor is : PROMETHEAN WOLF Elite fitness wear...

After a short two week enforced interlude I'm back, not in the studio for this one but recording remotely. Today's podcast is about Angry Anderson, a true rock n roll legend who passed away during the week. I wonder is it even possible for a band like this to exist in modern society anymore? Genuine working class heroes with a truly menacing air who turned their pub yob rock into an instit...

In today's podcast I break down where a 3k band fee for a festival goes to, agents, artist taxes, flights, luggage......and why this is becoming almost entirely untenable, this and other music industry observations and mathematical grasping at straws...... Today's sponsor is : PROMETHEAN WOLF Elite fitness wear....check it out at prometheanwolf.com and use the CODE : AGITATE for free shipping on y...

In today's podcast I ramble across a few different things, being asked "Don't I remember" by ChatGPT....about a conspiracy theory discussion from months before, so wait.....what....it's my own ChatGPT?.....or....was I being gently mocked by the Dystopian future we are about to enter, and then promptly forgot. That and an idea for an app called RE-ANIMATE which could cure loneliness. Send my royalt...

Interrupted while day dreaming about a Manowar poster I had when I was 14....I get ambushed into discussing the Manosphere with an old friend, am I in it? is the main thrust of questioning. It was silly, it was serious.....some points were raised, some words were phrased and in the end we both agreed, blanket buzz words = bad, claiming exercise is toxic = bad.....but most of the C U Next Tuesday's...

In today's episode I mull over Sepultura's last ever European show, feeling left out in the cold by that corporate arena feeling and why bands choose huge screens with AI imagery over lights and amps, what did Inner Self mean anyway? Being a cranky middle aged man means becoming a walking meme, who can deny it? and then a proper deep dive into proposed EU eco- packaging laws that are going to seri...

Recently I was mixing an album and desperately tried to make the studio into a time machine, to take me back to 1984, and failed. Well kinda, sorta.....made it back some of the way then the dials on the DeLorean starting smoking and I ended up more or less where I started. Why is it so difficult to fully re-create that moment? is it simply impossible to create virgin territory, a cultural zeitgeis...

This weeks episode is inspired by a week of listening to old demos from the late 80s and early 90s, a chance discussion with Paul from Blood Incantation about why some bands that seemed so vital from back in those days never made it, yet maybe now.....they would get far more respect, or would they? And some ramblings over the idea that our disengagement with the physical process of life, sub cultu...

In today's podcast I consider the implications that music is now one of the least important parts of promoting an album, what that means for the art form, when was the last time you shared a link to music and not a clip of people talking about music or an old clip of some band from another long gone decade acting out? Where is all headed? that and a mild mannered confrontation between a lazy Irish...

In today's episode I tread out into ankle deep waters of the let's be frank mostly nonsense culture war hysteria surrounding Christopher Nolan's new movie, an adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey" and consider the argument, should movies be historically accurate, do they owe a debt to the real characters who lived and died to portray them faithfully, or is history just another treasure trove of stor...

Does the old school metal scene and music industry in general simply have to accept the dumbing down of the scene through the influx of content creating gimmick bands or is it possible to resist? As it's clear that within an ageing scene there needs to be new blood right? Yet the new bands who uphold the old school values and worship the riff! are fewer and further between and certainly and sadly...

Born in 2015, VOLUME BRUTAL is a non-profit organization which releases LPs/CDs/Tapes, organizes gigs and other metal-related events (record market...). The stuff we sell on the website is from our own collection or stuff we traded with other labels, thus we sell both used (sometimes rare) records or brand new ones. Sales money is 100% used to finance our releases/gigs/events/merch stall...

Some bands just don't seem to understand what their legacy means, right? or are we just being gatekeeping assholes, obsessing over every little thing and small detail? and don't those kind of assholes exist in every walk of life? This and I mull over my feeling that mainstream metal and it's aspirations more and more seem to verge on cosplay... the show is looking for sponsors....if you think this...

What are the chattering heavy metal music industry classes discussing in the backstage this summer? Find out in today's podcast.... Warning.....Optimize you content potential.....and other such horrid phrases will be used over the length of this podcast the show is looking for sponsors....if you think this is something you are interested in, get in touch Alan.averill@gmail.com follow me nemtheanga...

Today's podcast is coming to you from a hotel room in Poland, as Primordial plays Mystic festival tonight, they say.....say what you see so that's what I'm doing today, discussing what goes into getting you from your front door to the stage, all the things that have to go right and how with 3 hours sleep in 32 hours you end up back at home staring out the window at the rain.... the show is looking...

Introducing Polish concept ensemble  Deamonolith.  The band was founded in 2022, but its members have been consistently active in the underground scene since the 90s (we played in bands like Pandemonium, Imperator, Lost Soul, Sacriversum, Gortal and others). They have just released their debut album in cooperation with domestic labels: Godz ov War Productions and Ancient Dead Productions...

So today's podcast is a spicy meatball, where I throw a lot of shade, as the young people say.....earlier in the week I was contacted by Rock Hard magazine in France to discuss one of the most important questions of our time, why is so much of modern metal so childish? let's leave fixing the Middle east for another day and get into it....if you feel troubled by any of the subjects of today's podca...

I learnt a new word: 'enshittification', stage 1 is attraction, stage 2 is abuse and stage 3 is extraction....how platforms lure people in and slowly once they have audience capture and people rely on them begin turning the screw and abusing users, I take this word and run with it into the brick wall of the music industry and culture at large. A continuation of the theme.....why nothing feels the...

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Today's podcast is a collaboration with Shayan from Iblis Manifestations/Trivax. During this years Inferno festival we got together to do an independent talk entitled 'The free speech principle' at Kniven bar. Despite harbouring an absolutely brutal hangover which is entirely my fault....we got through it and mulled over what free speech really means in the metal scene these days....do people real...

Episode 300 is proper Metal nerdism, together with Joe from that GAMA BOMB we debate our top 20 + a few stragglers of the year 1987 and realise we have vastly different victors when we get down to the crunch! could 1987 be the dark horse entry for the greatest year in Metal history ever? very possibly...... the show is looking for sponsors....if you think this is something you are interested in, g...

Geese.....yep.....Geese who were being touted as the new saviours of rock n' roll by the Guardian newspaper only a month or two ago have turned out to be more or less a marketing psyop created by a brand strategy company called Chaotic Good, Today I go over the story and ask, is it really surprising in 2026 that this is the way a rock band would get relative success in the mainstream....I dig into...

Was there an FBI conspiracy to kill off rock music? eh....no seriously....sort of, well Billy Corgan alluded to it on his podcast so I take it on face value and look into what changed. If we take Woodstock 99' as the last high point of angry dudes with guitars has it all been pop music-ified since then? On one level it certainly seems so, but we do love a conspiracy, could it be real, or is it jus...

The first time Primordial played Inferno festival in Norway was 20 years ago, I reflect on then and now. Have we just graduated to the middle aged men's club without knowing it? growing old with the same people year in and year out on the festival circuit? Could be. Finishing with some thoughts on how the energy crisis might affect the music industry if it keeps on rolling and rolling..... follow...