AGITATORS ANONYMOUS the Alan Averill Podcast

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Today is a co-ordinated episode along with a videocast on my Youtube channel looking back at the career of German thrash legends KREATOR! support the show over at http://patreon.com/alanaverill to watch the episode as a videocast go right here : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH-BtARZJ6ZgzQeqiWK3diw go and check out ADVERSARY right here : Alas, a Peaceful Death single/demo:  https://youtu.b...

This is part 2 to the look ahead to 2024, only it's about the music industry and underground metal this time, with only a brief hint of politics! sure it's all politics at the end of the day as the man says! How the cost of living and doing business affects an underground metal scene that can only exist with physical product, and bodies in the club.....down at the front of the stage, take all thes...

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Todays podcast is a great chat with Chris from HIGH SPIRITS, fine purveyors of uplifting heavy metal for over a decade now, but Chris's musical legacy stretches back to the mid 90s with numerous other bands, we discuss that, the influence of pop music over modern mainstream culture and metal, his role in writing for and producing Nachtmystium, and overcoming the mental downside of lockdown..... su...

It's that time of the year, when dumb metal singer puts his head on the chopping block and considers some of the things culturally, socially, politically that might be coming our way in 2024, it could be a rough ride so strap yourself in! The music version is to follow next week!! support the show over at http://patreon.com/alanaverill go and check out the band in todays podcast WINDTHROW https://...

It's been a while but welcome back to the channel Addi from SOLSTAFIR as we finally get to our long overdue rough guide to THIN LIZZY who have perhaps written some of the greatest rock songs of all time.... well let's be clear, there's no perhaps about it....? they have support the show over at http://patreon.com/alanaverill Primordial on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6... Solstafir...

This one does what it says on the tin, my top 20 albums of 2023 It's a video over on my Youtube channel if you want to look at my dumb face! There's no doubt I forgot some albums, remind me of something you think I should have heard!! go and subscribe to: my youtube channel https://youtu.be/dumRwP2Euos?si=36hbYJ4DHppu3kbQ support the show over at http://www.patreon.com/AlanAverill sponsored by Met...

In todays episode I discuss how quickly the spike after releasing new music dies down, what then? How do you resist getting trapped in a cycle of releasing endless sub par singles to keep things moving digitally. As booking agents look at these numbers, how do you buy views from Youtube and who do you reckon does that? and then a look at the story doing the rounds among some people about Spotify o...

After a wandering preamble I take a look at the new Napoleon movie, should historical movies try and be accurate? Where does the line end between artistic license and open culture war propaganda, or the rewriting of history? Does it ultimately matter? Which parts of Braveheart were untrue and was Napoleon really the dim witted, low energy simpering cuck that the movie portrays? my youtube channel...

In Episode 184 I look at old rock and metal bands re-animating old albums and reaching back into their youth for inspiration, is it a simply cash grab to sell some merch and a reason to tour or a genuine attempt to rediscover their mojo? or both, or....who the hell cares and any musician can do as they please with what they create....that and some random social commentary, the othering of those yo...

I had planned a completely different podcast, something or other about the music industry but seeing as my city was on fire last night and I walked through it I thought today should be a kinda emergency podcast about what the F is happening in Dublin. Details are still of course coming out and the narrative is changing but this was what I saw and felt last night in the city.....Recorded on the Fri...

Episode 182 is a random look at 1960s counter cultural movement 'The Discordians', their founders, teaching and resonance in the modern age, feels like we could do with a lot more discord in our lives! Question authority, embrace chaos, be an individual, be creative, stir shit.....against the grain, against the mainstream narrative, and do it all with a sense of humour! They praised the Greek God...

Episode 181 is chat about awful metal.....the worst bargain basement metal, joke albums made to cash in on how big metal was in the 80s, whole labels were devoted to doing so! Trust Metal Salvage to shine a drunken light on all of this carry on with Joe from GAMA BOMB It appeared over on my Youtube channel early on this week and part 2 is next week https://youtu.be/dumRwP2Euos?si=36hbYJ4DHppu3kbQ...

This may be a fools errand but Episode 180 is a complex and controversial one, maybe I should stay out of it but we've tackled difficult subjects before on the podcast and I did one on the war in Ukraine so this is my attempt to explain the historical context behind the current conflict in the Middle East. It's not full of hot takes, although there is some spice here and there, but more an attempt...

My brain is like Swiss cheese....is about the most insightful thing Episode 179 offers you but I try and get to grips with Joan of Arc, from a mention in a Celtic Frost lyric all the way to a whole verse in The Smiths 'Bigmouth strikes again', where the title of todays podcast came from all the way to.....well being one of the most iconic figures in modern history. Her story is one of conquering a...

This is the first podcast in weeks, I took a short break while on tour, so I look back on that, how you end up living in this artificial bubble on tour, which almost feels like a pre-internet period! You have limited news and interaction online and end up forming real life social friendships and bonds, and then after a whirlwind few weeks you are back on the couch staring out the window at the rai...

With the Ultima Ratio tour starting in two days across Europe with Primordial just before Paradise Lost and with Harakiri for the sky and Omnium Gatherum opening, this podcast is about my final preparations before the tour. It is our first support tour for about ten years perhaps even more, so what's different? Playing in the second last slot is a very different proposition, short time slot, less...

Todays episode ironically looks at the impact and influence of podcasts on modern society, how many hours do they take up from your week? did you used to listen to music in this time? Do we listen to them too much, do they speak to increasing studies which claim we are more lonely and depressed then ever, do podcast fill a gap where we once had a social life in an atomised society? and what are th...

Simple question, is Reign In Blood still the most extreme metal record ever made? Most likely..... support the show over at http://www.patreon.com/AlanAverill sponsored by Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/ promo code AA 2023 for 10% off your order ships worldwide you can order the new Primordial vinyl right here : https://eu.kingsroadmerch.com/metal-blade/category/4370/primord...

I am nothing but a people person, it's always been said. So this Episode is just a retelling of some dumb drunken high jinks on tour somewhere in 2006 or 2007 in Finland. It has everything, saunas, pirates, mohawks, liquorice, smashed mirrors and broken furniture.... support the show over at http://www.patreon.com/AlanAverill sponsored by Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/ prom...

Maybe I had too much coffee the morning of recording but I certainly blitzed this one! A breathless retelling of the history of the awe inspiring and deeply fascinating Haitian Revolution, how Toussant L'Overture, who became known as the Black Napoleon rose from humble origins to lead his island nation to independence and throwing off the shackles of slavery, while defeating the French, Spanish an...

In today's episode I discuss some of the finer details of the new Primordial, the cover, lyrical inspiration, have expectations changed in this atomised world we live in? Who has left the band? sometimes you do just reach the end of the road. All of that and a brief look at the Blackbraid controversy at Midgardsblot festival, we've all done things we regret when drinkin' right? How to deal with tr...

Episode 172 is a chat with an old friend..... we toured together in 1994! in fact Sigh's first gig ever outside of Japan was in Dublin, we discuss that, loads of other crazy old stories, signing with Euronymous DSP label back in the day, and finding our way back to the beginning near the end! support the show over at http://www.patreon.com/AlanAverill sponsored by Metal Blade records https://www.i...

What happens when your worst fears as a singer are happening....right then and right there....your in-ear monitors fail, you can't hear a thing, you make a f'n huge mistake in front of 1000s of people, the show could go to hell and hangs on a knifes edge, got to call the gods of the manosphere for some self control and take command of the situation right? find out did I manage or not at Beyond the...