On the road again....getting back in the van

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 work for cheap in a contracting industry but more expensive world! and ultimately why I often find the experience vaguely unsatisfying as juggling the logistics, finances and hope and wish to get eyeballs on the final product often jars with what is ultimately a creative and artistic endeavour....are they that important anymore? watch as a video over on my Youtube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d4sufefrS8&ab_channel=AlanAverillsupport the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade recordshttps://www.indiemerch.com/metalblade...promo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwidefor professional band backdrops contact :alan.averill@gmail.comPrimordial on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6...Verminous Serpenthttps://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl...Dread Sovereignhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4...Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

7 Heinä 202337min

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 80s, the beginnings of the US scene all the way to the present day with loads of cool stories and 40 years of metal history along the way!!An absolute banger of an episode full of pedal to the metal anecdotes right from the inception of the scene we worship at the altar of!! watch as a video over on my Youtube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d4sufefrS8&ab_channel=AlanAverillsupport the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade records https://www.indiemerch.com/metalblade...promo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwidefor professional band backdrops contact :yes@torodrops.comand use the promo code ALANPrimordial on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6...Verminous Serpenthttps://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl...Dread Sovereignhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4...Armored Sainthttps://open.spotify.com/artist/4ug41UGuMZzlV2hJOrOqHN?si=GQqlV8XoT8-fwr6LhvbvegSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

30 Kesä 20231h 16min

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 discography, a flawed gothic tragedy as one critic called it at the time. I look back over the writing and recording process and how it very nearly wasn't made at all! support the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade records https://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecordspromo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwidefor professional band backdrops contact :yes@torodrops.comand use the promo code ALANPrimordial on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=-4UVUYiiQ5ahQ_U4_W4a2gVerminous Serpenthttps://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=Tf--gdXGTgC3QgpdhAWpJADread Sovereignhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=h5A0ZVNrRYazchmU6jtuXgSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

23 Kesä 202324min

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 interesting and provoking introduction pieces I was inspired to go back to the moment of 1993 to consider the anniversary of the Primordial demo 'Dark romanticism' and to the late 80s and the birth of tape trading, consider what the early black and death metal underground meant, how it inspired and continues to inspire now after all this time!support the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade records https://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecordspromo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwidefor professional band backdrops contact :yes@torodrops.comand use the promo code ALANPrimordial on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=-4UVUYiiQ5ahQ_U4_W4a2gVerminous Serpenthttps://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=Tf--gdXGTgC3QgpdhAWpJADread Sovereignhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=h5A0ZVNrRYazchmU6jtuXgSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

16 Kesä 202338min

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 pure fantasy? From Indiana Jones, to Dan brown novels to dodgy power metal albums their famous imagery, sigil and deeds still loom large over our history. Sex, Murder, Money and Intrigue! So in this episode I continue the historical thread I've been on and look at who they were, where they came from and what is fact and what is fiction from this fascinating period of history!!!support the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade records https://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecordspromo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwidefor professional band backdrops contact :yes@torodrops.comand use the promo code ALANPrimordial on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=-4UVUYiiQ5ahQ_U4_W4a2gVerminous Serpenthttps://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=Tf--gdXGTgC3QgpdhAWpJADread Sovereignhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=h5A0ZVNrRYazchmU6jtuXgSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

9 Kesä 202340min

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 million people died and a million and a half displaced around the world, often crossing vast oceans in unseaworthy vessels called the coffin ships, which is where the Primordial song takes it's name from. It had been a long time since I raked over the history and found some things I'd forgotten and others I never knew, the effects of our greatest tragedy still echo deeply in Irish society and it arguably took the country about 150 years to recover, if it ever really did. Join me as Iook into our dark past. support the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade records https://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecordspromo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwidefor professional band backdrops contact :yes@torodrops.comand use the promo code ALANPrimordial on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=-4UVUYiiQ5ahQ_U4_W4a2gVerminous Serpenthttps://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=Tf--gdXGTgC3QgpdhAWpJADread Sovereignhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=h5A0ZVNrRYazchmU6jtuXgSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2 Kesä 202347min

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-BtARZJ6ZgzQeqiWK3diw it started off about glam bands turning to grunge in the 90s but the last section we turned to the modern concept of being a musician, is it possible?you can hear my vaguely drunken anger at the unfair situation pitted against Joe's calm stoner logic, I thought it might be kinda interesting forlisteners of AA!! support the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade records https://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecordspromo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwidefor professional band backdrops contact :yes@torodrops.comand use the promo code ALANPrimordial on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=-4UVUYiiQ5ahQ_U4_W4a2gVerminous Serpenthttps://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=Tf--gdXGTgC3QgpdhAWpJADread Sovereignhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=h5A0ZVNrRYazchmU6jtuXgSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

19 Touko 202347min

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, the recording techniques, pitfalls and adversities we had to deal with at the time among loads of other random tech nerd nonsense. Chris is also the bassist of the band CONAN so we get into their rise through the ranks over the last decade, which was done the old fashioned way, through getting in the van and getting out there touring....support the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade records https://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecordspromo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwidefor professional band backdrops contact :yes@torodrops.comand use the promo code ALANSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

12 Touko 202339min