Today I discuss the claims that older music fans are 'rockist', whatever that means, should festivals with an ageing demographic try and reinvent themselves somehow? how do you do that without alienating your core base, AI money laundering claims through streaming platforms and various other waffle...... support this show over at http://patreon.com/alanaverill Todays band sponsors BRAZEN...

WASP.....one of the greatest ever metal bands right? maybe one of the greatest ever opening songs...statements of intent, but what does it represent in a cultural context? genuinely rebellious? why were the 80s fulls of bands, movies, books, and personalities who didn't hate themselves? why is there no more rebel songs, protest songs or even any angry male guitar music in the mainstream at all.....did I ever get to that WASP show in 1989 when I was being thrown out school for being in trouble...

Seeing as Primordial is coming to the US later this month for the first time in over a decade to play some club shows I take a look at the costs involved in getting there, petitions, visas, rising flight costs, merch commissions and all the rest....the romantic dream of getting in the van and hitting the road still exists! but it's becoming more of a financial nightmare! find out why..... support this show over at http://patreon.com/alanaverill Primordial on...

With every intention of starting this episode off with a striking AI created Depeche Mode track I discovered...it's gone from the internet. How and why and what are the implications? should artists be forgiven for using AI artwork, do we judge younger or older bands in different ways? This and a quick look back at Primordial's hometown show last weekend support this show over at http://patreon.com/alanaverill Primordial on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6... sponsored by Metal...

Episode 202 is a long and winding chat with Norwegian artist Kim Holm, if you have the live Primordial album 'Gods to the Godless' you can see his incredible live action portraits of the band in the inner sleeve. Kim is absolutely killing it online on his various channels, has long connections to the Bergen Black Metal scene and his individualistic take on creativity is both fascinating and challenging. This chat of course discusses all of this but also ventures into Kim's anarchist beliefs,...

Has your city turned into an endless procession of cranes building high rises and skyscrapers with unnamed and unseen tenants? all the interesting and curious places in the city razed to the ground to build apartments no one can afford that seem to sit empty or boutique hotels designed for moneyed tourists, artist and locals have had to move out as they can no longer afford the rent....and the character and heart ripped from the place? but would anyone even want that anymore anyway? welcome...

As promised todays podcast is a spicey meatball, a sideways, darkly humorous but relatively serious look at Scotlands new Hate Speech legislation, Irelands own version waiting in the wings, why a variant might be coming to a country near you soon, why right here right now and what this means for freedom of speech and civil liberties. Also includes a Kenneth Williams reference and some other tongue in cheek nonsense..... support the show over at http://patreon.com/alanaverill check out the new...

This weeks podcast is a statistical indulgence, I love maths and numbers so this is manna from hell! heavy metal hell.....an article came out publishing the most popular metal band from each country via Spotify stats, so I dig into those, what they mean, who cares, and what they say about rock and metals place in streaming culture. Primordial represented Ireland so I mull over that as well and wonder why i didn't tackle all the new Hate speech laws instead.....the pass of least resistance...

The return of the legendary Steve Hughes, comedian, drummer.....social commentator and all round force of nature! The video will be up eventually on his channel, listed below, subscribe. We discuss important topics like what is the first ever death metal album all the way to globalist tactics of divide and conquer disseminated through the culture war and all points in between like songwriting, why the drums?.....the gonzoid beauty of old heavy metal, censorship and why Robert Smith spoke for...

This is a paid sponsorship! Check out this new doom band from Croatia! ELUSIVE GOD enjoy it? then check out the following links..... right here : https://elusivegod.bandcamp.com/ https://linktr.ee/elusive_god https://www.instagram.com/elusive.god.doom/ https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Elusive_God/3540457868 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdhOHm13mrE support the show over at http://patreon.com/alanaverill Primordial on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6... sponsored by Metal...

Ian Curtis, Janis Joplin, Pete Steele, Layne Staley, Jon Nodtveidt, Kurt Cobain, and on and on, the list is endless....so do musicians actually have shorter lives? in this episode I go through some of the reason that might indeed be true!! Wine is fine but whiskeys quicker..... support the show over at http://patreon.com/alanaverill go and check out ELUSIVE GOD right here...

Continuing on from the podcast of a few weeks ago today I mentally stumble across thoughts on why elements of the modern Western technocratic state shadows the old Soviet system, the new AI Google Gemini image creator, who controls the past controls the future, do you know any European leaders anymore? 2 + 2 equalling 5 and why we need to defend common ground, consensus and freedom of speech.... and some dumb Dad humour support the show over at http://patreon.com/alanaverill go and check out...

Before we begin part 2 of the why nothing makes sense political discussion let's have a Heavy metal interlude, I'm joined by Joe from Gama Bomb for volume 15 of our random chats about mainly heavy metal but more or less anything. This one covers important business like the price of a pint in Dublin, which one of us used to sniff solvents as a kid, which gig from Irelands gritty past had people being stabbed with syringes outside and what we think of the new Kerry King logo..... support the...

Where did the phrase gaslighting come from? are we being gaslit all the time, how do we know when news or media is real or fake? why does it seem to be so difficult to make sense of the world right now and is it going to get better or worse.....I think you know the answer to that one! but what can we do about it? what happened to the mainstream media, journalism, its financial structure model and why deathscrolling is as old as Ancient Egypt! support the show over...

Todays podcast is a chat with yours truly about Black Metal which was done for an upcoming book about the origins of UK Black Metal with Cult never dies, ok so Primordial isn't obviously from the Uk but we were living next door, signed to UK labels, played back in the early 90s in the Uk and had quite a lot of dealings peripherally within the scene. That chat morphs into a general discussion about Black Metal, its origin story, its development, morals, aesthetics and orthodoxy.....apologies...

This is an entire song by ADVERSARY this months sponsors of the podcast you wanna get your own band in this spot dm me go and check out ADVERSARY right here : Alas, a Peaceful Death single/demo: https://youtu.be/bU0o1weE1Is?si=Kg-jQ07ONAbQNPJd Bandcamp: https://adversary0.bandcamp.com/community Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.be/bU0o1weE1Is?si=Kg-jQ07ONAbQNPJd Bandcamp: https://adversary0.bandcamp.com/community Primordial on...

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 these away, won't be much of a scene. This and the coming threat to creativity from AI and what seems...

This special sponsorship episode is brought to you by the band WINDTHROW if you like what you hear, check them out at these links: https://windthrowofficial.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/windthrow.official/ support the show over at patreon: http://patreon.com/alanaverill Primordial on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6... sponsored by Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/ promo code AA 2024 for 10% off your order ships worldwide for professional band...

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..... support the show over at http://patreon.com/alanaverill go and check out WINDTHROW...

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://windthrowofficial.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/windthrow.official/ Primordial on...

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 on...

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 Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/ promo code AA 2023 for 10% off your...

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 owner Daniel Ek's 100million euro investment into AI military defence tech, is that the natural...