a chat w/ Nicholas Barker (Cradle of Filth/Dimmu Borgir/Lock Up/Brujeria....)
In Episode 45 I talk to my old mate Nick Barker, it's also a video cast over on my Youtube channel, just search Alan Averill. We chat about the old days, 80s and 90s underground scenes, Cradle of Filt...
26 Feb 20211h 16min
Livin Under Lock and Key
In AA E 44 Alan continues the theme of the 'do we have to agree with the artists we love' episode and discusses freedom of speech but mainly debates freedom, and the difference between what it means f...
19 Feb 202146min
Do we have to agree with the artists we like?
In E 43 AA rambles about John from Iced Earth's Capitol Hill guest appearance, do we have to agree with the beliefs, politics or actions of the artists that we like? if not, who decides who has the ri...
12 Feb 202152min
'Making Metal/Talking Singing' w/ JB from GRAND MAGUS
In Episode 42 I chat to my mate JB from Swedish Heavy Metal Titans GRAND MAGUSWe chat about writing under lockdown, singing technique, stage mishaps, vocal recording approaches, the touring life, wher...
5 Feb 20211h 20min
Great Reset or Great Rock n Roll Swindle?
In E 41 Alan finally gets round to tackling The Great Reset now that everyone is talking about it! Yet tries to hold the line and find the grey area between how a polarised society and mainstream medi...
29 Jan 202154min
Heavy Metal in a dictatorship
In E 40 I chat with my old mate Anton Reisenegger from 80s kult Chilean South American heroes Pentagram and also Criminal, Lock Up and the mighty Brujeria!!! We chat about growing up under a dictators...
22 Jan 20211h 14min
The stage represents freedom / so don't stop believin'.....
In E 39 AA reflects on current events in the US, reacts to a statement about touring and the hermit lifestyle from Nick Cave, considers the implications of the stage being taken from us, it's spiritua...
15 Jan 20211h
The, We don't care what you say.....FCK U! 2020 review
AA looks back over the dumpster fire of 2020, the year the world lost its mind, rakes the coals and sifts the ashes looking to make some sense of it and decide whether he lost his mind also, or not. T...
8 Jan 20211h
