AGITATORS ANONYMOUS the Alan Averill Podcast

Tuesdays short sharp and sweet metal miscellany considers the process of booking a band, and why for example Mott the Hoople might cancel a show in Birmingham, Alabama. The song writing process, why …

Episode 145 is a chat with an old friend, John Cobbett from

HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE, ex Lord weird slough feg, Vhol, Ludicra among many others. One of the most under rated metal curiosities of the last…

Nick Cave has recently called a song, well actually a lyric....written by Artificial Intelligence as a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human. So is he correct? Todays short, sharp sweet cast go…

In this episode I nurse a brutal hangover and dish out a spicy curry, maybe not a Vindaloo but a Madras at least. Have we as a society lost faith in our institutions, what happens when we do? Is poli…

Tuesday's heavy metal miscellany is back and this is a special one if you will allow me some shameless self promotion of a sort! During lockdown I recorded an album with a new band and included in to…

E 143 is the first chat of the year and strap yourselves in, it heads for deep space! I'm joined by Paul from BLOOD INCANTATION, one of the fastest rising death metal bands of the last decade. Unitin…

The songwriting process is well under way for the new Primordial album, so i thought it would be interesting to take a look at how that works, can you learn intuition when it comes to songwriting, wh…

The Tuesday heavy metal miscellany returns with the audio of my last Call from the grave video that went up on Youtube before the new year, a look back over the career of DARK ANGEL.....if you told m…

Episode 141 is part 2 of a look back over 2022, this time from a musicians perspective, the ending of lockdown, tours and gigs returning, the hesitancy of people to attend, vaccine dilemmas for music…

This is part one of the year in review, the dark stuff.....call me a miserable son of a bitch if you wish but this is about lockdown, post pandemic issues, war Ukraine, Putin, fighting for freedom in…

This one does what it says on the tin! My top 15 or 20 Metal albums of the year in no real order! Nothing we all like more than a list huh? well here's my end of year list......

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Free speech, free speech for the dumb. Free speech, free speech for the dumb. Free speech, free speech for the dumb. Free fucking speech.....or so said Discharge once upon a time! Episode 138 is soci…

Rather than serve up some random social commentary on Kanye West, today we take a sideways look at amphetamine, a brief history of where it came from, how widely available it was in the 1920s, and ho…

in Episode 136 AA takes on the new Graham Hancock series Ancient Apocalypse, why its so popular and how bit appeals to the romantic in us all, however the Guardian among other mainstream media public…

In todays random ramble AA ponders being jetlagged, the success of the Messe des Morts festival in Montreal last weekend, almost losing my voice beforehand, the new Metallica song, not paying attenti…

AA is on his way to Messe Des Morts festival in Montreal, Canada this week so the podcast discusses the 6th Primordial album 'To the nameless dead', it's writing, recording, influences and legacy 15 …

How will Artificial Intelligence affect songwriting and musicians? as on a long car journey a motley crew of failed musicians got to hear an AI created U2 song on the radio...how far are we from AI w…

Tuesdays bonus round Metal miscellany content is an exert from the most recent Metal Salvage chat between AA and Joe from Gama Bomb which deals with entering the last few chapters of a career, making…

As promised E 133 is a deep dive into the curious case of Doom Death metal, its origins, formative bands, where it went shortly afterwards, why it slipped from the mainstream public consciousness and…

In todays random heavy metal ramble AA considers the important difference between speed and thrash metal! get Putin on the fax machine as the jury is in. Should we begrudge bands touring specific alb…