AGITATORS ANONYMOUS the Alan Averill Podcast

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…

Simple question, is Reign In Blood still the most extreme metal record ever made? Most likely.....

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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, p…

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 Toussa…

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? somet…

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 …

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 peopl…

Episode 170 is a quick one before heading off to play 'To the nameless dead' at Beyond the Gates festival with Primordial, normal, or more normal service will be resumed next week. This one is about …

WHY DO BANDS RE-RECORD ALBUMS?

Contract issues, no royalties ever paid, in order to tour, to spike interest, a new singer, or maybe just for fun!

and what ever happened to the classic live album?

Nick …

168 is a rambling random episode that started out as an attempt to answer questions put to me in Instagram that turned into a mini rant about everything from the drum machine on Bathory's 'Blood on …

Episode 167

is a chat w/ JAMES PLOTKIN

James is one of the most prolific underground artists of the last 30+ years, from his beginnings in the grindcore scene with Regurgitation in 1987, through OLD, …

As Primordial is this weekend about to make the first video for the new album I discuss what goes into that, the crew, preparation, initial ideas, interpretation of lyrics, finding people who can wor…

Episode 165 of Agitators Anonymous

is a chat with JOERY VERA bassist from Armored Saint, Fates Warning and also most recently the Mercyful Fate re-union!

An LA metal OG we go back in time to the early…

With the release of the 10th Primordial album coming up, I thought it was time to look back on our 2nd album "Journey's End', perhaps the record that stands alone more than any other in our discograp…

After receiving the Analogue Black Terror book made by Metastazis from France and printed by Nuclear war now productions, which is a compendium of Black metal flyers, demo tape covers with some inter…

A thousand years give or take a few after their creation, the Knights Templar still capture the public imagination, why? what is it about their myth that is so enduring, what is real and what is just…

This one is a big one and long overdue, I look at the Irish potato famine which began in 1845 and carried on realistically until the early 1850's, Ireland's population was almost halved, over a milli…

Episode 160 is an exert of the last half of the most recent Metal Salvage chat w Joe from GAMA BOMB which is a video over on my Youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH-BtARZJ6ZgzQeqiWK3di…

This also appears as a video chat over on my Youtube channel, Chris recorded the Primordial albums 'To the nameless dead', 'Redemption at the puritans hand' and the new one! We discuss those albums, …

Discussing Ireland new proposed Hate speech legislation, what it means for freedom of speech, civil liberties and the right to dissent. With many countries moving in lock step with similar plans what…