AGITATORS ANONYMOUS the Alan Averill Podcast

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!support the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade recordshttps://metalblade.indiemerch.com/promo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwideyou can order the new Primordial vinylright here :https://eu.kingsroadmerch.com/metal-blade/category/4370/primordial-pre-orderfor professional band backdrops or other requests 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...

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!support the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade recordshttps://metalblade.indiemerch.com/promo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwideyou can order the new Primordial vinylright here :https://eu.kingsroadmerch.com/metal-blade/category/4370/primordial-pre-orderfor professional band backdrops or other requests 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...

Simple question, is Reign In Blood still the most extreme metal record ever made? Most likely.....support the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade recordshttps://metalblade.indiemerch.com/promo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwideyou can order the new Primordial vinylright here :https://eu.kingsroadmerch.com/metal-blade/category/4370/primordial-pre-orderfor professional band backdrops or other requests 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...

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....support the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade recordshttps://metalblade.indiemerch.com/promo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwideyou can order the new Primordial vinylright here :https://eu.kingsroadmerch.com/metal-blade/category/4370/primordial-pre-orderfor professional band backdrops or other requests 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...

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!support the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade recordshttps://www.indiemerch.com/metalblade...promo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwideyou can order the new Primordial vinylright here :https://eu.kingsroadmerch.com/metal-blade/category/4370/primordial-pre-orderfor professional band backdrops or other requests 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...

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 episodesupport the show over athttp://www.patreon.com/AlanAverillsponsored byMetal Blade recordshttps://www.indiemerch.com/metalblade...promo code AA 2023 for 10% off your orderships worldwideyou can order the new Primordial vinyl right here :https://eu.kingsroadmerch.com/metal-blade/category/4370/primordial-pre-orderfor professional band backdrops or other requests 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...The show is also sponsored by The Crawlingif you like what you hear go to:https://thecrawlingband.bandcamp.com/

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! support 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 or other requests 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...LISTEN TO THE NEW SIGH ALBUM RIGHT HEREhttps://open.spotify.com/album/4RbsEs32Y34iOZvc3TnDTO?si=CXz5XZ6JR7e9XlmT2yJGrAThe show is also sponsored by The Crawlingif you like what you hear go to:https://thecrawlingband.bandcamp.com/

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.....The show is also sponsored by The Crawlingif you like what you hear go to: https://thecrawlingband.bandcamp.com/support 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 or other requests 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...

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!!!The show also has a sponsored track by The Crawling right at the end so keep listening!if you like what you hear go to: https://thecrawlingband.bandcamp.com/Nick Barker gofundme:https://gofund.me/4ea03ab2support 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 or other requests 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...