AGITATORS ANONYMOUS the Alan Averill Podcast
This is the Podcast of Alan Averill aka Nemtheanga, vocalist of the Irish Metal band Primordial for almost the last three decades! It's all about music industry commentary and insider info, rock n roll stories from a life on the road, travel experiences from every continent, piracy and general skullduggery, gallows humour, some political observation, musings on history and culture and some good old Irish psychoanalysis. A Vagabond of the Western World!.....
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 323
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
BONUS Spotify & Band discussion
This is a bonus podcast. A short discussion that was originally on my Youtube channel about Spotify and some advice for musicians in times of lockdown.
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Every day is like Sunday
In this rambling episode Alan talks about depression and mental health and the best ways of understanding and dealing with it. How this has been affected by the lockdown and who stands to benefit. Re…
Goin Underground
In this episode Alan rambles about Primordial's appearance at the online European Metal Festival Alliance the previous weekend, what no live industry means for crew, the caravan of summer festival ex…
Questions, questions many you ask.....
In this episode Alan answers fan submitted questions and rambles across many different fields, from the upcoming American Election to his favourite cities and places to play and visit, across cancel …
Nemtheanga on the Primordial album 'Redemption'
A bonus short podcast, Alan/nemtheanga looks back on the creation of the 7th Primordial album from 2011. Also available as a video cast on the bands official Youtube page
COCAINE EEJITS 'Tales of an Irishman in New York'
In this Episode Alan rambles and recollects some crazy cocaine fulled stories of his first visit to the US and New York, which takes in escaping from near death, empathetic UPS drivers, mistaken iden…
Mental Health, Agency and Purpose
A bonus podcast discussing mental health, agency, purpose and how we try and keep ourselves together and not unravel in testing and difficult times.
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'Satanic Panic at the disco!', a history of the Church of Satan
In this Episode, Alan discusses the history of the Church of Satan and its founder Anton LaVey, its influence over 20th and 21st century modern pop culture and a first read of the 'Satanic Bible' in …
The Shadow of Aleister Crowley the Great Beast 666
In this Episode Alan tackles the life, legacy and influence of Magician Aleister Crowley over not only metal and black metal but over culture and history itself in the 20th century and beyond, from h…
Bonus podcast - The Making of Primordial 'Storm Before Calm'
A shorter 'making of' commentary on the 4th Primordial album 'Storm Before Calm' from 2002 which was recorded in Yorkshire back in the day. About the songwriting, artwork, aesthetic, imagery, recordi…
IRISH HISTORY vol. 1 back to school
In this episode Alan discusses developments in the music industry, the face of the city as it emerges from lockdown, a dive into Irish medieval history and how the past casts the die of the present d…
SOUL, SOBRIETY, SUICIDE & SOLSTAFIR w/ Addi Tryggvason
In the final episode of the season Alan talks to his old friend Addi from Icelandic heathen bastards Solstafir about mental health, depression, suicide, his journey to sobriety and reminisces about o…
Is this the end of Rock n Roll as we knew it?
In this Episode Alan discusses the potential future outcomes of the music industry, the recent leaked memo from Live Nation, do socially distant gatherings spell the end of rock n roll as we knew it,…
Moderate man says reasonable thing vs. the Volcano
In Episode 10 Alan ponders the chaos of 2020 and tries to find some middle ground left to stand on, wonders if it's the place of a a singer in a heavy metal band to make judgement calls on politics a…
Reason, Riots and Responsibility, with Josh Barnett MMA
In Episode 9 Alan talks to Josh 'The Warmaster' Barnett heavyweight of MMA Bellator, Mixed Martial Artist, commentator, and fellow metalhead in a long form wide ranging discussion, from the protests,…
Irish Politics, Drug Culture, the Cult of Heroic Failure and Paganism
In Episode 8 Alan discusses Irish History, the famine, the influence of the Catholic Church on Ireland in the 20th century, emigration, the changing face of drugs in the capital in the early 90s, Ecs…
Primordial - Spirit the Earth Aflame 20 years on
In this shorter bonus podcast Alan looks back at the third Primordial album 'Spirit the Earth Aflame' which was released twenty years ago. The song writing process, aesthetics, lyrics, label and cont…
Violence, Danger, the Golden Age of Death Metal and Jarvis / Night Demon/Cirith Ungol
In this Episode Alan talks about Classic Old school Dublin Death Metal gigs from 30 years ago, Death, Deicide, Sepultura, Kreator, Morbid Angel, Dublin as a second world city and the level of street …
Losing it onstage, Digital Privilege and are remote gigs the end of Rock n Roll
In this Episode Alan discusses what it feels like to lose your voice in front of ten thousand people, the concept of digital privilege, are remote gigs the end of rock n roll? shouldn't there be more…
The Remote Future of Art and Music and the maths of Touring Exposed
In this extended episode Alan rambles on about the state of his city (Dublin/Ireland) has dreams about our Steampunk speakeasy bars of the future where art and music have been driven underground, our…