AGITATORS ANONYMOUS the Alan Averill Podcast

A few weeks ago I posted on my Instagram (nemtheanga_primordial) some old ticket stubs from the mid 80s to the early 90s and sure enough the violence that surrounded those shows got mentioned in the comments, so I thought I'd revisit that, the reasons why it was happening, a stabbing at a punk gig in 1977 which cast a shadow over gigs in the State for years and I ask, was it just a British isles and Irish thing? if so, why? How it stopped, why gigs now are often just corporate and empty feeling and whisper it....those were the great days, the classic gigs and we wouldn't have it any other way....

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I made some very brutal old school death metal right here

VERMINOUS SERPENT

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Check out my other doom band

DREAD SOVEREIGN

https://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=sxQ5_1htR6G3WIvy1I_wXA

and take a listen to some old school electro goth I made

APRILMEN

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Today's podcast is about Black Sabbath, plain and simple. Discussing the final show coming up in Villa Park, the return of Bill Ward, the pricing, the guests and support bands and some random observations about the Ozzy albums including some worn out old vinyls.....if you want to see it as a video cast then head on over to

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Primordial on Spotify

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sponsored by Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/

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For info on my work as a booking agent go to: https://www.facebook.com/DragonProductionsOfficial

I made some very brutal old school death metal right here

VERMINOUS SERPENT

https://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=zOjIulHXS5y9lW1YHMhgTA

Check out my other doom band

DREAD SOVEREIGN

https://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=sxQ5_1htR6G3WIvy1I_wXA

and take a listen to some old school electro goth I made

APRILMEN

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GzLO1YJClmN5TvV4A37MJ?si=cRXSk24lQKWSqJG-B8KbWQ

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In today's episode I discuss the idea that the album itself, one of the most defining things of modern culture is becoming a passion project, how deep cuts can just get lost completely and how the streaming format encourages endless singles. How this affects the vision of artists and how with touring becoming so expensive bands revert to greatest hits sets for festivals. Is making a full length right now actually detrimental to the grim business of driving numbers.

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Primordial on Spotify

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sponsored by Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/

promo code AA 2024 for 10% off your order ships worldwide

For info on my work as a booking agent go to: https://www.facebook.com/DragonProductionsOfficial

I made some very brutal old school death metal right here

VERMINOUS SERPENT

https://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=zOjIulHXS5y9lW1YHMhgTA

Check out my other doom band

DREAD SOVEREIGN

https://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=sxQ5_1htR6G3WIvy1I_wXA

and take a listen to some old school electro goth I made

APRILMEN

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GzLO1YJClmN5TvV4A37MJ?si=cRXSk24lQKWSqJG-B8KbWQ

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In today's podcast I am reading a tour diary I wrote in 1999 for our old website. An 8 day tour of Portugal with one show in Spain and seeing if it rouses any old memories. This is my first time reading it since I wrote it, the confessions of a 20 something True Metal Vampire .....

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Primordial on Spotify

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sponsored by Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/

promo code AA 2024 for 10% off your order ships worldwide

For info on my work as a booking agent go to: https://www.facebook.com/DragonProductionsOfficial

I made some very brutal old school death metal right here

VERMINOUS SERPENT

https://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=zOjIulHXS5y9lW1YHMhgTA

Check out my other doom band

DREAD SOVEREIGN

https://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=sxQ5_1htR6G3WIvy1I_wXA

and take a listen to some old school electro goth I made

APRILMEN

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GzLO1YJClmN5TvV4A37MJ?si=cRXSk24lQKWSqJG-B8KbWQ

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The files of my original take on the state of the worlds politics in 2024 were corrupted, perhaps the universe is telling me something. So this is just a sideways look at a couple of interesting and difficult conversations I've had lately, starting with the Irish musical phenomenon Kneecap and ending with the darkness of the Grooming gangs scandal in the UK, and how the world is only going to get more wild and we have to try and drop our instinct of dismissing the messengers simply because we don't like their politics, or their history, or just the cut of their jib!

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Primordial on Spotify

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sponsored by Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/

promo code AA 2024 for 10% off your order ships worldwide

For info on my work as a booking agent go to: https://www.facebook.com/DragonProductionsOfficial

I made some very brutal old school death metal right here

https://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=zOjIulHXS5y9lW1YHMhgTA

Check out my other doom band

https://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=sxQ5_1htR6G3WIvy1I_wXA

and take a listen to some old school electro goth I made

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GzLO1YJClmN5TvV4A37MJ?si=cRXSk24lQKWSqJG-B8KbWQ

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This was supposed to be a look back over the years political, cultural, social events, things that stood out to me, a sideways take on a wild ride of a year but the recording didn't work out! So this is an emergency pod! but a look back over the unusual and unexpected circumstances surrounding the 4th Primordial album, perhaps the most under looked and under rated? 2002's 'Storm before calm'

it originally appeared on my Patreon!

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Primordial on Spotify

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sponsored by Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/

promo code AA 2024 for 10% off your order ships worldwide

For info on my work as a booking agent go to: https://www.facebook.com/DragonProductionsOfficial

I made some very brutal old school death metal right here

https://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=zOjIulHXS5y9lW1YHMhgTA

Check out my other doom band

https://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=sxQ5_1htR6G3WIvy1I_wXA

and take a listen to some old school electro goth I made

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GzLO1YJClmN5TvV4A37MJ?si=cRXSk24lQKWSqJG-B8KbWQ

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What's another year eh? getting back on the horse, back on the road again, not letting them grind ya down and all the usual cliches, this episode takes a look at the reaction to my top 20 of the year we have just done and dusted and observing the absolute deluge of music I forgot or would never have enough hours in the day to check out and asks the question is the underground, traditional metal just in a state of managed decline? a dusty old museum we have to remember to turn the lights on so the odd visitor can see through the gloom?

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sponsored by Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/

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For info on my work as a booking agent go to: https://www.facebook.com/DragonProductionsOfficial

I made some very brutal old school death metal right here

https://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=zOjIulHXS5y9lW1YHMhgTA

Check out my other doom band

https://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=sxQ5_1htR6G3WIvy1I_wXA

and take a listen to some old school electro goth I made

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GzLO1YJClmN5TvV4A37MJ?si=cRXSk24lQKWSqJG-B8KbWQ

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This was supposed to be my top 20 but due to my forgetfulness turned into 21 on the hoof.... does what it says on the tin this one!

would a top 20 hats seem better? let me know

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sponsored by Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/

promo code AA 2024 for 10% off your order ships worldwide

For info on my work as a booking agent go to: https://www.facebook.com/DragonProductionsOfficial

I made some very brutal old school death metal right here

https://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=zOjIulHXS5y9lW1YHMhgTA

Check out my other doom band

https://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=sxQ5_1htR6G3WIvy1I_wXA

and take a listen to some old school electro goth I made

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GzLO1YJClmN5TvV4A37MJ?si=cRXSk24lQKWSqJG-B8KbWQ

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After a lengthy and detailed discussion over on my instagram about Spotify I thought I'd clear up some of the confusion and misunderstandings involved in their business model and how it is to interact with that as a musician and artist. What unwrapped is all about, how it demands our attention and what we can do to support artists moving forwards

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Verminous Serpent

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Dread Sovereign

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Todays podcast asks the question when did it become such a chore to be a fan of music? do you go to gigs and secretly wait for them to be over, feel like you haven't given that new album by your so called fave band enough time, and before you know it you have a stack of ignored vinyl staring at you? do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of new releases, so much so that being informed feels like doing the death scroll admin? find out why ....consume curate content, the 3 C's

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take a look at the article at Hate Meditations

https://hatemeditations.com/2024/06/06/metalhead-burnout-entrepreneurism-and-the-chore-of-modern-listening/?

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Verminous Serpent

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Dread Sovereign

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How are some metal bands enjoying greater success than ever near the end of their careers? Kreator, Anthrax and Testament being a case in point, arguably past their creative peak, their peak of physical sales and out the other side of the changing winds of the music industry some bands are posting bigger numbers than ever out there on the road, how come? clever curation of their legacy? a huge stage show? being clever about digital singles.....? find out

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Dread Sovereign

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90s Megadeth vs 90s Maiden? bald or not bald? why do we prefer one politicians over another? people who are really obsessed with politics forget most people don't care. Much delayed but rather vague thoughts on the US election...but very vague, but do you as a listener have the right to know my opinion, does anyone need my opinion and how did podcasts somehow end up being not only arguably the deciding factor in this election but such an important element of modern society, what does that say about us and the relationships we have with podcasters, whose voice we sometimes hear more than friends and family. Is it healthy and do they have too much power?

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Dread Sovereign

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After another year of gigging and travelling it's time to take a look at where the metal scene, where the underground is at more specifically, what trends are happening....as if I know! and discuss the truth that everything is about the economy stupid!!!

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Verminous Serpent

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Dread Sovereign

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This one is something I haven't done in a long time! fielding some questions from my Instagram!!

From misconceptions about being in a band to Ireland's lack of heavy metal history and only a few mentions of Trump......

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Verminous Serpent

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Dread Sovereign

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Episode 228 is a chat with American youtuber and podcaster Jon Barbas who hosts the Heavy Metal Philosophy page and platforms

We discuss masculinity in metal, whats positive and whats a grift within the scene, the upcoming election, guns, first amendment rights and issues, and many other things!!

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I don't solve the Middle East in this episode, or drone on about the American election or really answer any of life's big issues, that is unless you are a vintage merch collector, trader or simple plain old Heavy Metal fan! So strap yourself in for some proper obsessive compulsive nerdling true metal behaviour...... how come it's all got so goddamn expensive? what kind of stitching do you look for to make sure it's an OG, and some stories about my long lost Bathory shirt....is vintage merch collecting just a microcosm of real life? find out.....

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Verminous Serpent

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Dread Sovereign

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Today's post red wine podcast is about criticism and how to deal with it, is tuning out of the comments cheating? the pressure on bands to have instagram ready stage shows and do they over shadow the music? and a read through of an AI occult doom metal bands substack manifesto.....

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Verminous Serpent

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Dread Sovereign

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Todays podcast is a chat with Dan from both Wolcensmen and Solstice, which may seem controversial to some, but very normal and standard to others, and while we don't agree on everything the principle behind Agitators Anonymous is that of freedom of speech, we cover the difficulties of stepping into someone else's musical shoes and singing damn hard songs! scepticism, rationality, being played by our algorithm, why the powers that be seek to divide and conquer us but also why we should all attempt in a polarised world to find common ground rather than divisions....

there are some contentious topics here and there but everything should be on the table to discuss!

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Verminous Serpent

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Dread Sovereign

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A stop gap episode as I am about to go on a short tour this week ahead and my throat has seen better days! so here is the last Metal Salvage chat between Joe from Gama Bomb and myself, random daft and the odd time even witty, insightful and amusing drunken and deluded conversations.....normal service resumed next week!

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Verminous Serpent

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Dread Sovereign

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We hear the word libertarian and the phrase classical liberal a lot these days but where does it come from? what do libertarians believe and maybe you are one and don't know it? along with some other random chat, including the shelving of Ireland's Orwellian hate speech laws and why my mother thinks Blindboy is a much better podcaster....fair enough like, boi.....

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Primordial on Spotify

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For info on my work as a booking agent go to:

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Verminous Serpent

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On this weeks podcast I discuss the recent case of Michael Smith, a prompter, music generator who was arrested for gaming Spotify's system, generating 100 000s of songs with AI, uploading them and then getting bots to fire up his numbers, getting caught after trying to get a 10$ million payout! and how the system is more or less open to complete manipulation....that, the new Danzig single and how for most bands now its about consolidation and not 'growth'

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Lately I've been getting a lot of emails and messages from new bands and musicians asking how can they make the next step! first mistake asking a grumpy old dude like me right? well, how do you play the game? is there any point and what if your chosen style has no underground, you have to go big or go home right?

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This week I discuss the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov and how the cartoonish fake news became the soviet style disinformation, the dynamic pricing debacle over Oasis tickets and how gigs have now become a luxury experience for the upper middle class and some news about Attila S Thompsons missing suitcase...

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In this episode I discuss why Boomers are starting to only now notice there are no new rock bands anymore....and what part they played in that, how lad culture that was once celebrated in the 90s was redefined as toxic masculinity for the modern age and how the Oasis reunion has sparked the predictable responses from areas of the press....among loads of other nonsense

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Simple one this week, with another festival season under my belt I wonder how many more times this happens, the law of diminishing returns! being nearer the end than the beginning, going up against huge bands with your time slot, how the cost of living crisis is affecting merch sales, transient punters, and the feeling that the whole scene is building up a big head of steam once again.....can the centre hold or are we headed for a lot of cancellations over the next 12 months....or am I just a pessimistic chump? or all of the above

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Episode 215 is a chat with my mate Jason from US dark pagan post Black Metal pioneers AGALLOCH ! however you want to describe them one of the most beloved and individual bands of the last few decades. We caught up at Maryland death fest this year after many many years and vowed to podcast together! So here we are! Random chat about old school death metal, growing older, have our bands plateau'd and will Agalloch ever make any new music!

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This may be an unusual move but this is an entire album of

VERMINOUS SERPENT 'The Malign Covenant' which I played bass/vocals on along with JD on guitars (Slidhr) and MB (Malthusian) on drums

it came out maybe a year ago on Amor Fati Records! Germany

chances are maybe you haven't heard it! black/death metal done the old school way!

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produced by Shaun Cadogan for Last light recordings....

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Was the opening Olympic ceremony a heinous Blasphemy or just daft woke folly? Why the Marquis de Sade appeals to Libertine edgelords but is a bad role model and why I wanted 5 minutes alone with Foucault....

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A stopgap episode offering some essential advice for bands! and a newly found interview from the vaults.....from 1998 about Journey's End with that RTE Metal show! Ireland's main broadcaster back in the day! Expect youthful snarkiness and some vibrant bitchiness.....his name is Muggy Inclement.....

Until next week!!

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I mean what else could I talk about? Nature is Metal......Trump being totally Metal? well, old school Metal at least....back when Manowar were greased, ready and in their prime. Did Trump just quote some Manowar lyrics in a recent speech or is that fake news. Find out, some off the cuff assassination talk, via Sarajevo, world war one and other random off the cuff metal and historical references

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In a week where I pay way over the odds for a record I've wanted since 1989 to add to my personal ballast/collection, I ask is it really worth it? is there any romance really in clicking a button and getting it delivered to your door compared to going through the racks in a dank old cellar record shop back in the day. I finally get to me Manowar vinyl anecdote and wonder....is it really worth it? surely it's better to own nothing and be happy.....right?

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My reaction to the presidential debate...as if anyone needed it, The Death of Stalin vs Weekend at Bernies explained at long last! Where did the term gaslighting come from, what does it mean and why does it feel so goddamn Soviet Soviet? so good they named it twice...

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In todays episode I talk about something I never thought I would say, seeing Beherit at a festival. A Black Metal bucket list moment.....Ave Satan, Ave Lucifer at the Houses of the Holy festival, if you know you know! However the episode is really about the possibility of ruining a legacy or reputation returning to the stage after so many years or even beginning a live career after years spent in the shadows, the Bathory paradox! and maybe old dogs bite down hardest after all these years!

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The most depressing gig I ever witnessed to open with, followed by a discussion on the tempations of larping at being in a band using AI, who would resist? and what are the implications for the music industry once the gap narrows to make human musical creativity and AI indistinguishable....

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May be a fools errand, if so let's be politically homeless fools together! a sideways look at the recent elections.....

Ignorance is bliss after all

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WRACH one man Black Metal war from Wales

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From the cold dark shadows of Wales emerges Wrach, an enigmatic one-man black metal force. A tempest of relentless riffs, thunderous percussion, and infernal vocals, submerged deep within occult, death worship, and anticosmic theses.

Enveloping listeners into a sinister esoteric atmosphere of otherworldly currents, straddling the line between the material and the abyss.

Embrace death, transcend the mortal coil and revel in the sinister beauty hidden within the folds of the abyss. This solitary figure stands as a sentinel of Death, guiding initiates through desolate and perilous soundscapes, beckoning you to tread the treacherous path where malevolence and obscurity converge.

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Our intrepid mid table singer in an over the hill heavy metal band is jet lagged, tired beyond belief after a 12 day jaunt around the US and A, so todays podcast is just impressions from the trip, politics, the people, the shows, visa costs, and observations of the human in late stage capitalist decay.....and the cost of cheesecake.....

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Today I discuss the claims that older music fans are 'rockist', whatever that means, should festivals with an ageing demographic try and reinvent themselves somehow? how do you do that without alienating your core base, AI money laundering claims through streaming platforms and various other waffle......

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WASP.....one of the greatest ever metal bands right? maybe one of the greatest ever opening songs...statements of intent, but what does it represent in a cultural context? genuinely rebellious? why were the 80s fulls of bands, movies, books, and personalities who didn't hate themselves? why is there no more rebel songs, protest songs or even any angry male guitar music in the mainstream at all.....did I ever get to that WASP show in 1989 when I was being thrown out school for being in trouble or not? Todays podcast is a random ramble filled with childhood memories and half baked musings.....

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Seeing as Primordial is coming to the US later this month for the first time in over a decade to play some club shows I take a look at the costs involved in getting there, petitions, visas, rising flight costs, merch commissions and all the rest....the romantic dream of getting in the van and hitting the road still exists! but it's becoming more of a financial nightmare! find out why.....

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With every intention of starting this episode off with a striking AI created Depeche Mode track I discovered...it's gone from the internet. How and why and what are the implications? should artists be forgiven for using AI artwork, do we judge younger or older bands in different ways? This and a quick look back at Primordial's hometown show last weekend

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Episode 202 is a long and winding chat with Norwegian artist Kim Holm, if you have the live Primordial album 'Gods to the Godless' you can see his incredible live action portraits of the band in the inner sleeve. Kim is absolutely killing it online on his various channels, has long connections to the Bergen Black Metal scene and his individualistic take on creativity is both fascinating and challenging. This chat of course discusses all of this but also ventures into Kim's anarchist beliefs, geo politics and our political differences, mental health issues and all points in-between! It's a long one so strap yourself in!

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Has your city turned into an endless procession of cranes building high rises and skyscrapers with unnamed and unseen tenants? all the interesting and curious places in the city razed to the ground to build apartments no one can afford that seem to sit empty or boutique hotels designed for moneyed tourists, artist and locals have had to move out as they can no longer afford the rent....and the character and heart ripped from the place? but would anyone even want that anymore anyway? welcome to Dublin right now, I discuss that and also a new theme tune for the podcast made by AI among other nonsense

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As promised todays podcast is a spicey meatball, a sideways, darkly humorous but relatively serious look at Scotlands new Hate Speech legislation, Irelands own version waiting in the wings, why a variant might be coming to a country near you soon, why right here right now and what this means for freedom of speech and civil liberties. Also includes a Kenneth Williams reference and some other tongue in cheek nonsense.....

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This weeks podcast is a statistical indulgence, I love maths and numbers so this is manna from hell! heavy metal hell.....an article came out publishing the most popular metal band from each country via Spotify stats, so I dig into those, what they mean, who cares, and what they say about rock and metals place in streaming culture. Primordial represented Ireland so I mull over that as well and wonder why i didn't tackle all the new Hate speech laws instead.....the pass of least resistance meets my obsession with statistics!

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The return of the legendary Steve Hughes, comedian, drummer.....social commentator and all round force of nature! The video will be up eventually on his channel, listed below, subscribe. We discuss important topics like what is the first ever death metal album all the way to globalist tactics of divide and conquer disseminated through the culture war and all points in between like songwriting, why the drums?.....the gonzoid beauty of old heavy metal, censorship and why Robert Smith spoke for you.....

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Ian Curtis, Janis Joplin, Pete Steele, Layne Staley, Jon Nodtveidt, Kurt Cobain, and on and on, the list is endless....so do musicians actually have shorter lives? in this episode I go through some of the reason that might indeed be true!!

Wine is fine but whiskeys quicker.....

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Continuing on from the podcast of a few weeks ago today I mentally stumble across thoughts on why elements of the modern Western technocratic state shadows the old Soviet system, the new AI Google Gemini image creator, who controls the past controls the future, do you know any European leaders anymore? 2 + 2 equalling 5 and why we need to defend common ground, consensus and freedom of speech....

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Before we begin part 2 of the why nothing makes sense political discussion let's have a Heavy metal interlude, I'm joined by Joe from Gama Bomb for volume 15 of our random chats about mainly heavy metal but more or less anything. This one covers important business like the price of a pint in Dublin, which one of us used to sniff solvents as a kid, which gig from Irelands gritty past had people being stabbed with syringes outside and what we think of the new Kerry King logo.....

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Where did the phrase gaslighting come from? are we being gaslit all the time, how do we know when news or media is real or fake? why does it seem to be so difficult to make sense of the world right now and is it going to get better or worse.....I think you know the answer to that one! but what can we do about it? what happened to the mainstream media, journalism, its financial structure model and why deathscrolling is as old as Ancient Egypt!

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Todays podcast is a chat with yours truly about Black Metal which was done for an upcoming book about the origins of UK Black Metal with Cult never dies, ok so Primordial isn't obviously from the Uk but we were living next door, signed to UK labels, played back in the early 90s in the Uk and had quite a lot of dealings peripherally within the scene. That chat morphs into a general discussion about Black Metal, its origin story, its development, morals, aesthetics and orthodoxy.....apologies for the slightly poor sound quality on my end, I was calling from the 1920s....

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Today is a co-ordinated episode along with a videocast on my Youtube channel looking back at the career of German thrash legends KREATOR!

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This is part 2 to the look ahead to 2024, only it's about the music industry and underground metal this time, with only a brief hint of politics! sure it's all politics at the end of the day as the man says! How the cost of living and doing business affects an underground metal scene that can only exist with physical product, and bodies in the club.....down at the front of the stage, take all these away, won't be much of a scene. This and the coming threat to creativity from AI and what seems like the ever more frenetic deluge of releases.....

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Todays podcast is a great chat with Chris from HIGH SPIRITS, fine purveyors of uplifting heavy metal for over a decade now, but Chris's musical legacy stretches back to the mid 90s with numerous other bands, we discuss that, the influence of pop music over modern mainstream culture and metal, his role in writing for and producing Nachtmystium, and overcoming the mental downside of lockdown.....

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It's that time of the year, when dumb metal singer puts his head on the chopping block and considers some of the things culturally, socially, politically that might be coming our way in 2024, it could be a rough ride so strap yourself in!

The music version is to follow next week!!

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It's been a while but welcome back to the channel Addi from SOLSTAFIR as we finally get to our long overdue rough guide to

THIN LIZZY

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This one does what it says on the tin, my top 20 albums of 2023

It's a video over on my Youtube channel if you want to look at my dumb face!

There's no doubt I forgot some albums, remind me of something you think I should have heard!!

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In todays episode I discuss how quickly the spike after releasing new music dies down, what then? How do you resist getting trapped in a cycle of releasing endless sub par singles to keep things moving digitally. As booking agents look at these numbers, how do you buy views from Youtube and who do you reckon does that? and then a look at the story doing the rounds among some people about Spotify owner Daniel Ek's 100million euro investment into AI military defence tech, is that the natural conclusion for a Pirate? you decide......

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After a wandering preamble I take a look at the new Napoleon movie, should historical movies try and be accurate? Where does the line end between artistic license and open culture war propaganda, or the rewriting of history? Does it ultimately matter? Which parts of Braveheart were untrue and was Napoleon really the dim witted, low energy simpering cuck that the movie portrays?

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In Episode 184 I look at old rock and metal bands re-animating old albums and reaching back into their youth for inspiration, is it a simply cash grab to sell some merch and a reason to tour or a genuine attempt to rediscover their mojo? or both, or....who the hell cares and any musician can do as they please with what they create....that and some random social commentary, the othering of those you disagree with, the Cavalera brothers, hate speech and is it the end of the humble rock bar? to be continued.....

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I had planned a completely different podcast, something or other about the music industry but seeing as my city was on fire last night and I walked through it I thought today should be a kinda emergency podcast about what the F is happening in Dublin. Details are still of course coming out and the narrative is changing but this was what I saw and felt last night in the city.....Recorded on the Friday morning after Nov. 24th with the possibility of more riots tonight....

Normal service will be resumed next week

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Episode 182 is a random look at 1960s counter cultural movement 'The Discordians', their founders, teaching and resonance in the modern age, feels like we could do with a lot more discord in our lives! Question authority, embrace chaos, be an individual, be creative, stir shit.....against the grain, against the mainstream narrative, and do it all with a sense of humour! They praised the Greek God of strife and chaos Eris and re-introduced the Illuminati as modern day conspiracy theory fave! so who were they?

and some random stuff about the Middle East and stop sending me average reviews of my music!

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Episode 181 is chat about awful metal.....the worst bargain basement metal, joke albums made to cash in on how big metal was in the 80s, whole labels were devoted to doing so!

Trust Metal Salvage to shine a drunken light on all of this carry on with Joe from GAMA BOMB

It appeared over on my Youtube channel early on this week and part 2 is next week

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This may be a fools errand but Episode 180 is a complex and controversial one, maybe I should stay out of it but we've tackled difficult subjects before on the podcast and I did one on the war in Ukraine so this is my attempt to explain the historical context behind the current conflict in the Middle East. It's not full of hot takes, although there is some spice here and there, but more an attempt to create some kinda timeline, and look at some of the reasons why we are in the state we are in right now. It's not meant to take one particular side over the other, and I realise of course this is not what people want....they want good vs. evil binary reactionism but that's not the style here on Agitators Anonymous, so you'll hear about the Bible to the Balfour declaration!

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My brain is like Swiss cheese....is about the most insightful thing Episode 179 offers you but I try and get to grips with Joan of Arc, from a mention in a Celtic Frost lyric all the way to a whole verse in The Smiths 'Bigmouth strikes again', where the title of todays podcast came from all the way to.....well being one of the most iconic figures in modern history. Her story is one of conquering adversity, kicking the patriarchy squarely in the balls, crowing a King, lifting a siege, inspiring a divided medieval nation with her religious devotion, dressing as she god damn pleased and ultimately dying a young grim and sexy death perfect for horror film adaptation!

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This is the first podcast in weeks, I took a short break while on tour, so I look back on that, how you end up living in this artificial bubble on tour, which almost feels like a pre-internet period! You have limited news and interaction online and end up forming real life social friendships and bonds, and then after a whirlwind few weeks you are back on the couch staring out the window at the rain. This is one thing but then the real news out there in this deep dark world not only bursts your bubble but stomps it into the ground, smashes it to dust and then sets fire to the dust. I wisely or unwisely step into the Middle Eastern situation to round things off with and try and place it in context with comments Irish people got back in the day....among loads of other dumb and random observations. I lost a lot of braincells on this last tour....and I barely had enough to go round

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With the Ultima Ratio tour starting in two days across Europe with Primordial just before Paradise Lost and with Harakiri for the sky and Omnium Gatherum opening, this podcast is about my final preparations before the tour. It is our first support tour for about ten years perhaps even more, so what's different? Playing in the second last slot is a very different proposition, short time slot, less logistics, less of a financial burden when you are not the headliner, the night does not depend necessarily on you, you also have to go out there wanting to and expecting to win new fans, people who aren't familiar with the band, it's a different ball game! So let's get into that, and some of my super mundane boring tips for being on tour!

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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 them too much, do they speak to increasing studies which claim we are more lonely and depressed then ever, do podcast fill a gap where we once had a social life in an atomised society? and what are the knock on effects, from dating to reproducing! but more importantly did they help kill the album as a listening experience!

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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, pirates, mohawks, liquorice, smashed mirrors and broken furniture....

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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 Toussant L'Overture, who became known as the Black Napoleon rose from humble origins to lead his island nation to independence and throwing off the shackles of slavery, while defeating the French, Spanish and British along the way! The new Primordial album revolves around themes of liberty, revolution and rebellion and certainly this staggering story falls under that storytelling motif! I also skirt past The Serpent and the Rainbow , The French Revolution, Voodoo and Papa Doc via addressing ridiculous rumours and gossip about albums that I wrote.....I'm still here! you can ask me!

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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? sometimes you do just reach the end of the road. All of that and a brief look at the Blackbraid controversy at Midgardsblot festival, we've all done things we regret when drinkin' right? How to deal with trolls and forum lizards and the brain breaking illogic of never speaking to anyone who you might disagree with....

this and other nonsense in todays episode

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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 Euronymous DSP label back in the day, and finding our way back to the beginning near the end!

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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 people, the show could go to hell and hangs on a knifes edge, got to call the gods of the manosphere for some self control and take command of the situation right? find out did I manage or not at Beyond the Gates. If a butterfly flaps its wings in Tokyo do we have a complete mud bath in a field in Germany? who knows.....

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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 all the things you have to prepare for such a show, what can go wrong, the dilemmas, worries, stresses, costs and pressure involved, from the voice, to the gear to the airline not losing anything, to the guy making the new stage props! will we avoid meme hell!!!

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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?

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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 Ice' via the dilemma of speaking your mind in interviews, wise man think all he says and dumb metal singer says all he thinks, which am I? does it do any good to debate who funds Greta or is Hate speech just bullying on steroids? Who knows....

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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, Scorn, a myriad of solo and collaborative releases, from digital hardcore to dark ambient and many points between, Phantomsmasher, Khlyst, Jodis and now to a new Khanate album. He also is well known for producing, mixing, remixing and mastering for bands such as Sunn O))), Pelican, Isis, Earth and Nadja.....among many many more!

This is a very cool look into the life and times of a genuine outsider and groundbreaker within the underground music scene and industry!!

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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?

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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!!

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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!

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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!

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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!!!

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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.

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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

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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?

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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....

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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 kinda of future are we headed for?

Or am I just being a C theorist?

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Episode 157 discusses Trey from Morbid Angel's onstage collapse last week in Florida, why this is harder than ever to cope and deal with as everyone onstage is being filmed at all times and sadly epic fails are more shareable than a great show. How in the past musicians had off days but escaped further scrutiny as no one was filming their every move. I discuss my own moments of onstage insanity, when is it time to embrace sobriety and can you rock n roll without the rock n roll?

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Today's short sharp metal shock is about the rising cost of underground music economics, shipping and buying vinyl, wholesale rates, the huge dip in sales for most small labels, how can they survive? and a look at how much money is left after posting out some signed Primordial vinyls to pay off debt.....I think you can guess the answer. Whose to blame? Putin, good old fashioned opportunistic price gouging or is it all part of some systematic plan to close small businesses?

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AGITATORS ANONYMOUS PODCAST EPISODE 156

Black Metal 1993 - 30 years on

Hard to believe that it's been 30 years since the class of 93 Black Metal, a year which saw so many incredible releases but strangely enough turned out to be maybe the last high point of BM in the 90s, just maybe.....Primordial contributed on some level that year with our demo 'Dark Romanticism' so I look back on the releases that made the year so memorable, being part of the cultural zeitgeist, tape trading, why Black Metal reacted to the path the rest of metal was taking and why my attitude towards it has not progressed one inch in over 30 years! and am happy to be a knuckle dragging neanderthal.....along with other random observations!

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This one appears as a video over on my Youtube channel if you want to watch it instead!

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...and it does exactly what it says on the tin! all aspects of the new Metallica album discussed!

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Inspired by a conversation with the artist behind the new Primordial album, I discuss the idea that in theory AI could replace all the creative links in the chain. A brief look at the first all AI band, could they play live? will younger fans be bothered and how close they already sound to many modern mainstream metal bands. Are 100s of millions of people fundamentally facing going from being used to useless in the workforce? Weren't we promised that AI would remove the tedious jobs not replace the creative jobs? and a back and forwards discussion about what's the difference between one artist learning from or being inspired by another and AI just harvesting data.....a brave new world awaits!!!

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Tuesday's short sharp shock Heavy Metal miscellany podcast is a look at last weekends Dread Sovereign shows, one was a big loss and the other a big victory, so I get into the reasons why, how to take the L on the chin and get back up and fight another day and discuss the existential angst that happens after your ego gets a good sharp kick in the balls!!

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No MANOWAR no list.....

Rolling Stone magazine just released a list of the top 100 greatest Heavy Metal songs of all time. I made a video of my reaction to that list, I went in blind, not knowing anything about it, scrolled through and comment. No idea who compiled it or any other background information! The video will be released on my Youtube channel next week but this is the audio of that reaction! Forgive the slightly different sound!

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Episode 153 is a chat with Matt Bacon from DROPOUT MEDIA, BACON'S BITS and various music industry enterprises. We discuss the micro and macro of the modern music industry, advice for bands starting out, how to use social media to your advantage, scene examples of bands making it and moving up, Matt is a positive counter balance to my natural born pessimism. I'm not sure if we really get to the heart of all the things we mean to but one thing is for sure....Welsh Hen Party is indeed a terrifying sentence!!!

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What you have to do before signing, sealing and delivering an album. Getting the balance right of the final mix, how important is the running order, IRSC codes, the artwork, the aesthetic. Thinking about the impact of the photos, the videos for the singles, and then having to sit on the music for months before it comes out, and then who knows, perhaps no one will like the damn thing! That and 20 other things to keep you awake at night. I also read a Primordial style lyric written by ChatGPT and finish with an article entitled 'Give me a humorous take on Black Metal' written by a machine!!!! damn you ChatGPT666

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Tuesdays heavy metal content is part 4 of a chat between myself and Joe from Gama Bomb about the metal albums released in 1983, which include Show no Mercy, Kill em all, Melissa and more, the first 3 parts are over on my Youtube channel at

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Last week in the studio is trying to prep lyrics, study arrangements, avoid getting sick or a flu before singing, summoning the muse for an hour or two then sitting around pondering life's important issues, which is a better album 'Powerslave' or 'Somewhere in Time'? Attempting to get the artwork and aesthetic in line and finalise the running order. All this and a discussion about the latest merch controversy surrounding the band Igorrr and others, venues taking huge %'s of bands merch in an already difficult climate for artists to tour in....and more....

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Episode 150! quite the milestone! and it seems fitting that this weeks podcast is made while Primordial is recording album number 10! so it's about amps, microphone techniques, which guitars we use, pedals, and various other heavy metal nerdisms! Politics can wait til another day! It also features near the end the famous Alan Averill remedy for kickstarting your voice if you lose it on tour or in the studio!

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Todays Tuesday Metal Miscellany considers the separation between the topics of the podcast and new lyrical ideas, who wants to hear more of the same? but where do you find new inspiration after all these years? That and the fact that right now there are two Death tribute bands on tour, and pulling more people than newer bands making original music? is metal too obsessed with nostalgia?

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As Primordial begins to record album number 10 this podcast is pretty self explanatory, ever wondered about what happens in the studio on day number 1! Some technical nerdy gear stuff and also how to prep, how to lurk, be absent and involved all at the same time!

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In todays Heavy Metal miscellany I discuss the predictable prep for last minute recording sessions, running around the city looking for bits of drums, a funny review of Primordial from Kerrang in 1995 supporting Cradle of Filth and 'Gorgoth', some memories of drinking Ihsahns whiskey, seeing Saxon in front of 50 people in 1990 and being heartbroken at a cancelled Cronos show in Dublin the same year.....

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In episode 148 I discuss Conspiracy theories, what do the two words mean anymore? just a slur to shut conversation or debate down, or do these ideas represent something more dangerous to society? I propose to the senate 10 rough rules for which any man, woman or creature of fortune can use to measure if a theory has conspiracy credentials!

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In today's metal miscellany I discuss being asked for my top 13 Death Metal albums of all time, and then realising all of them are 30+ years old, is Haunting the Chapel by Slayer Death Metal? is Morbid Tales Death Metal and other such important questions. Secondly I discuss what a Spotify stream is worth, how old record contracts roughly worked and why I will never pay the rent from streaming!

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Are there are any rebels anymore in the music industry? in the wider culture at large? is it even possible. After spending the last few months only reading rock autobiographies and stories about some of music real characters, from Sly and the family stone to Brian Wilson to Iggy Pop, Sid Vicious to Neil Young, The New York Dolls to Johnny Cash and many more from the darkest annals of rock n roll mythology have we seen the last of their kind? Could you even get away with the things they did now?

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Tuesdays heavy metal ramble considers the idea that Mark The Animal Mendoza bassist from Twisted Sister is somewhere in the multi-verse presenting an alternate Grammys, as he's about the same age as Madonna and made a few facial alterations.....is Satanism just wearing a top hat with some plastic horns on? are Limp Bizkit trolling the world with a prophetic deep fake video that might provide us with some insight as to how we meet our end as a species and can't bands do whatever they want with the legacy?

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A breathless consideration of the case of mid 90s metal, did the underground have the life sucked out of it by the forces of capitalism, of success, of aspirations beyond its station? did the scene lose its hunger and energy? if so what were the contributing factors, all mulled over after 4 pints of afternoon Guinness so things are a bit giddy and all over the place. Blame Arthur.....

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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 you need to write awful stuff to get to the good stuff, what inspires lyrics and and the important and ongoing concern.....are the Welsh spying on us?

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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 two decades, 'The Locust Years' was for example just added to the Decibel Magazine hall of fame, probably one of the greatest bands you never heard of!

We get into all sorts of stuff, recording analog compared to digital, San Francisco in the old days before gentrification and silicon valley, the occupy movement, surveillance capitalism, the reason why you never make any royalties from record contracts, you goddamn name it we get into it....

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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 goes through his quotes, the story, as we've discussed here before on the podcast the implications AI will have for human creativity and we end with a triumphant reading of the AI lyric in question, how has AI's study been going? Find out

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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 politics merely pantomime now, Hollywood for the ugly, as they say. Do we have any say anymore in the future our technocratic political class have for us, and did we ever? All mulled over with a grumpy disillusioned brain fog that only 10 pints of Guinness can do for you....

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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 today's podcast is a whole song! It's filthy, dark, grim, bestial kinda stuff! That and some random Primordial chat and a preview of what might be coming up on Fridays main cast!

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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. Uniting old school and new school fans BI are something of a modern revelation, managing to unite scenes and ages, we discuss that, Pauls complex musical tree, their now infamous episode of What's in my bag the Amoeba records show, how death metal resurrected itself commercially from the mid to late 00s doldrums and for the last half of our chat we head for conspiracy theories, aliens, graham hancock, deep state collusion over extra terrestrial contact, and ancient civilisations.....!

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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, what should you trust and the skill of knowing you are going down a blind alley and taking everyone with you. How to fry and find piece of mind and the right frame of mind to let the ideas flow uncluttered by the detritus of modern life! Next week I'll discuss the practical things you can do when coming up to record, but this one is about being prepared! fail to prepare, prepare to fail!!

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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 me the greatest thrash metal album of all time was 'Darkness Descends'.....I might just agree

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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 musicians and the industry, conformity in the metal scene at large, spiralling energy and travel costs for both musicians and fans, who can survive that into 2023? but also let's hear it for how much great music was being made in the underground, in alternative sub cultures away from the mainstream and what we need to do to keep those scenes, venues, festivals, and tours alive, what does 2023 hold? AI avatar popstars? an analog rebellion? all in Episode 141

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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 Iran, the Twitter files, Climate change issues, mainstream media narratives and who controls them, the new technocracy, gender, the WEF and all the that other good positive stuff....part 2 will be a lighter more positive take on the year, music and maybe grounds for optimism? at least that's what I'm gonna try and do, this is the heavy stuff, but just no metal!....have I gone mad? am I totally wrong? could be, you decide.....

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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 social commentary done the heavy metal way. Random thoughts about the Twitter Files, which are mainly being ignored by mainstream media, Elon Musks take over of the digital square of ideas, the meltdown of Kanye West, shadow banning, cancel culture, and why some who supported lockdown are now watching in horror whats happening in China....cognitive dissonance much?

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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 how it ended up being used as the backbone of the blitzkrieg and a major instrument in warfare. Our shifting relationship socially and culturally to drugs and the big question, were the nazis on speed?

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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 publications believe it to be 'the most dangerous show on Netflix', and a gateway drug to conspiracy theories.....'how has this been allowed' they ask? so we get into that, how it perfectly frames the state of mind of those who want to take your ability to critically assess and watch a show like AA out of your hands, how did it even get made they stamp their feet and gnash their teeth. AA speaks to an archaeologist friend about the show and it's claims and lays out his sceptical assessment of the series!

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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 attention to criticism and when did metal become so conformist? lesson from this podcast? don't listen to haters, they gonna hate.....

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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 years on. The album that arguably brought the band to another level....maybe the most beloved by fans, maybe the most popular, maybe the best? who knows exactly....so while the world is talking about FTX you can listen to AA pontificate about standing around in an old studio in Wales 15 years ago!

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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 writing whole new albums for long defunct bands? could they then tour the Metaverse? do young people care, will they care if their popstars are only Avatars and not real musicians in the future? How will record companies gate keep the technology to stop every punter with the technology releasing new AI music every hour of everyday?....this and some random political commentary and nonsense Agitation!!!

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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 plans in music....does it matter anymore and some random nonsense......

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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 never got the respect and resurrection it deserved in the modern underground and metal world. Why the North of England? and stories about recording with Primordial in the old Academy Studios the spiritual home of the early Doom Death metal scene! Time for a rebirth! Definitely

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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 albums and how damn old is everyone becoming? very......

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In E 132 AA considers the role of Artificial Intelligence Art generators, recently producing lyrics videos for the likes of Slayer and Megadeth, will there be a need for graphic artists in the future? will we need humans to write songs...to engineer them, or even to sing and perform them? all this and a dumb rock n roll story to fully illustrate how AA has little intelligence and never really learns...

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Are we living too fast for slower music? have our attention spans been shredded too much to take in bands who would have made the main stage at a festival 20 or 30 years ago? are we just taking in too much negative information to listen to what we consider to negative music anymore within metal? are we just living too fast to take time out with an album to fully absorb it and what part do podcasts themselves play in that?

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Tuesdays Agitators bonus is heavy metal random ramble about heavy hair, what is it......who are the key players and albums, why you should get your friends together drink straight whiskey and deal with the complex questions in life, is Innocence is no excuse better than Crusader.....by the slightly heavy haired Saxon, what does it take to pick a great setlist and for what occasion!!

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In a long overdue episode 130 is a re-reading and discussion of George Orwells 1984, is it a cliche to reference? why do people react to the word Orwellian, does it exist. Why does every generation since its writing find something within it that reminds them of their own society and resonates deeply. Is it a warning from history? does it really read like an instruction manual for our political class or is that just a cliche. A deep dive into one of the most brutal, dark, unrelenting and grim novels ever written. 1984.

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Tuesdays tongue in cheek podcast is a sideways look at ageing, becoming classic Dad rock, and getting older with your crowd. Is there anything wrong with this? are we ageing like a fine wine, should we do it disgracefully and let it all hang out and accept the inevitable? why scenes need social reinvention to survive and why this is not really happening anymore and what the hell are young people doing anyway? who knows.....do we care.....?

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Seeing as Primordial is playing this weekend in Bulgaria and Romania I thought I would take a look back at the same trip we made in the year 2000, our first shows in Eastern Europe other than Poland and how important they were, stories and impressions from the time, historical observations and comparing those countries and the region then to now.....

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After a few heavy political podcasts let's make todays a simple chat about the legacy of the band Venom! the band without whom almost everything we listen to would be very different, thrash, speed, death and black metal.....would not be the same. Some nostalgia about buying that first Venom single back in the day and a lightning fast highly caffeinated run through their back catalogue!

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After a few heavy political podcasts let's make todays a simple chat about the legacy of the band Venom! the band without whom almost everything we listen to would be very different, thrash, speed, death and black metal.....would not be the same. Some nostalgia about buying that first Venom single back in the day and a lightning fast highly caffeinated run through their back catalogue!

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Episode 127 is a look at what's happening in Iran, as the people take to the streets to protest the brutal murder of a young woman named Masha Amini by religious authorities. First hand messages from people within Iran, a look at why sections of Western society have a blind spot when dealing with issues like this one, the hypocrisy and fear involved in not supporting women's rights in theocratic states around the world and why we care about one cause and not another. This is the starkest illustration of why freedom of speech is important and should matter to us all.

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Tuesday's bonus metal and rock ramble is thought on rewatching the Metallica documentary 'Some kind of monster' some 15 years after last viewing it. Hetfield handing the band over to a therapist and Ulrich making millions selling Art and taking on Napster, how has it aged and what does it tell us about fame and when do millionaire musicians simply stop listening and surrounding themselves with anyone who will say No!

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In episode 126 I discuss Biden declaring the pandemic over, Putin partially mobilising troops in Russia, do our western leaders actually want an end to the war, why they want to sell brand spanking new military hardware not the old stuff sitting in a warehouse somewhere, Ulrich's drum sound and why did Tom Araya use the word ensemble, political polarisation and is it possible to filter through propaganda and negative information and come to any conclusions.....and how to enjoy your beers this weekend, old man shouts at many clouds in Episode 126!!!

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Tuesday's rock and metal chat starts with a short eulogy to Manowar and then gets to grips with why a hometown show is always different, why last weekends Primordial was exactly that, have we had our moment? have we aged like a fine wine or like old bread, who knows. How the demographics change, some nostalgia over the very first Primordial shows in 91 and 92. Imrama the debut album came out 27 years today so some reminiscing and random stories about it's recording and mixing and that'll do for today!

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As promised Episode 125 eventually gets to discuss the worst gig I ever played, what I learnt from it and how you cope when things begin to unravel, via being asked repeatedly about the Queen dying, how we deal with controversy, culture wars, the new Megadeth album and a brief skit across what band musically fell from grace more than any other...

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Todays podcast is a pretty simple one, me discussing my favourite album of all time, does what it says on the tin! This originally appeared on my Patreon in 2021, for this kinda bonus content head over to

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Back from vacation feeling slim and recharged AA gets sidetracked and embarks on a ramble across the energy crisis, what happened to the war in Ukraine? where are all the 4 star general and ordinance survey maps? are we really heading for blackouts in Europe this winter? or is it all just clickbait. Do the political elite really care about you, why would you think so? and end with some brief commentary about the current gender pronoun debate and the Salem witch trials!

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AA is on vacation, Bonzo goes to Bitburg eh? Normal service will be resumed next week

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As a companion piece to last weeks report on Beyond the Gates festival this Friday's podcast is a continuation of some bar room chat I had over an over expensive pint or two up in Bergen, so this is 10 or 12 albums that in my opinion are under rated, under appreciated perhaps in the historical canon of Norwegian Black Metal and whatever sub divisions that happened to rub shoulders with it, and at the end you can find out my top 5 of the top tier, well known famous names!

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After sharing an article on my Instagram about the culture of merch concessions, where bands have to give a % of their merch sales to venues, festivals etc. I was still surprised to see how many people are still not aware of the practise, so I dig into where it came from, why it's spreading, is it ever justified, and how post pandemic, lockdown it really has to stop, musicians are being price gouged enough left, right and centre without losing one of the few income streams they have left!

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Tuesdays rock n roll ramble is about the prospect of cancelled tours because of low ticket sales, so what are the reasons why people are not buying tickets? Social? cost of living price hikes? travel? the fear of returning restrictions? mask mandates? energy costs? or just not having the dollah bills to get through the Winter?

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This episode is a report from Beyond the Gates festival in Bergen, my most attended festival somehow! did Black Metal 'come home' in the famous Grieghallen with Enslaved, Emperor and Mayhem? why is the festival so well supported by the local arts council and Black Metal in general by the State? success breeds success and BTG is a fine example! How were the other acts? Mercyful Fate you ask? who won the metal quiz and did it rain all the time? and how did I afford the funds for 5 days in Bergen.....

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In Tuesday's random rock n roll ramble I recall my first ever festival experience, getting to the mainland on the dole, not having enough money to feed ourselves or more importantly get drunk, but somehow managing it and all the miserablist and nu metal that ruled the stage! Dynamo 1997

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In E 120 I discuss the recent Morrissey controversy, is he one of the last genuine rebels left? pushing back against the establishment? is it time for him to do a duet with Varg? or is he just a cartoon cut out of a grumpy old Englishmen, find out which side of the fence I come down on, I poke fun at my teenage self and my orthodox musical tastes, no fun no core no mosh.....no trends! of course, a brief journey into power pop, Sparks and have I just become a figure of whimsy after all these years! Episode 120 is a tongue in cheek rant at boring modern mainstream music industry and maybe we should be thankful for the few rebels we have left....even if we don't agree with them all the time!

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Tuesdays heavy metal gossip column reveals how I somehow have a bass guitar well beyond my primitive means, a running battle between me and a German jobsworth train instructor, the new Sumerland earworm single and why collecting vinyls never leaves you, but yet weighs you down!

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one of the most enigmatic and original bands to emerge over the last 10-15 years in the underground scene has been without a doubt Swiss band BOLZER

Here I discuss the bands origins, gear choices, two piece decisions, romanticism, heroism, spirituality, media hatchet jobs and risin up to the meet the challenge of our rivals.....

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I got the eye of the Tiger....

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Tuesdays heavy metal content is self explanatory, a look back over the career of KING DIAMOND.....and believe me he wasn't always the cultural metal icon he is nowadays!!

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Episode 119

Gene Simmons says rock n roll is dead, the fans killed it? is this true? not exactly, so what are the real reasons why rock n roll is no longer a force in mainstream music, sure it exists under the surface, underground but why only there? music being marketed to pre-teens, multiculturalism, the changing face of society, housing, streaming? maybe is it just returning to it's rightful place as outsider music once again or is it simply an outdated anachronism? find out in Episode 119

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Tuesday's podcast is really a heavy metal rock review / gossip column, I discuss Bruce Dickinsons outburst in Athens, was he out of order? and is the Pantera re-union a cynical cash in? plus this weeks album recommendation! the one album I've spun the most this week is the new Mantar album!

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Episode 117 is a spicey once, having been told to get off the fence by a mate he wades into the new hate crime legislation in Ireland, will the farmers protest spread across Europe and the world? tackles the intellectually confusing cul de sac of cultural appropriation, wonders why the Irish are never offended by it and lastly but not least gives the idea of inherited guilt a kick in the shins for good measure!!

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The first death metal band of all time? the greatest? the most consistent? possibly, the life and times of Evil Chuck, musical genius with high watermarks few could ever touch, ending in sad tragedy as his life was taken way too soon.....

let's get into the career of DEATH

I had a cold! apologies for the coughing and sniffing!!!

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MY BODY MY CHOICE

is the end of our financial freedom being planned?

or am I just going crazy?

In E 116 I discuss the implications CBDC or 'central bank digital currency' might have on your financial freedom as governments create their own Crypto, and what programmable restrictions it could have, from penalties for hate speech, protest and dissent to climate, carbon, alcohol and tobacco, limits on your ability to spend your money as you wish! What part do the recent farmers protests in Holland play in this, will their government begin freezing their assets and copying Dr.Trudeau? and we read a small section of Klaus Schwab's book 'The Great Reset' which will resound clearly if you've spent extra hours sitting in an airport lately or missed a flight! My money my choice!

Hello me meet the real me.....

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Tuesday's rock/metal episode is a career retrospective of arguably the greatest death metal band of them all! Morbid Angel! but it ain't all high points! take a listen and see if you agree

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In Episode 115 I make the unusual juxtaposition of old English cross dressing Artist and critic Grayson Perry and gun toting US patriots Five finger death punch in a discussion on taste, is it right to judge what gives someone else their festival joy as I stand on the sidelines and consider the low hanging musical fruit that is FFDP and does it really matter what I think? Seems like we need the casual listener as much as the elitist obsessive but when the hurly burly is done which opinion matters more? are some animals more equal?

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Part two of the AC/DC debate I had with Addi from Solstafir! part one was uploaded a few weeks ago.....so this is part two, from Back in Black on to the present day, is Fly on the wall the worst album? doesn't the riff from Who made Who sound like black metal? Is Ballbreaker the most under rated album? who hasn't even really listened to Rock or bust?

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Is confidence the key to singing? what % is raw talent? and what % is repetition and rehearsal? what do you learn over the years, tricks of the trade for keeping your voice intact and staying in the game. Is it easy to spot which older bands were boozers or druggies? how does your lifestyle affect your voice? and is it wrong to criticise rocks legendary vocalists now they are approaching retirement age?

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