AGITATORS ANONYMOUS the Alan Averill Podcast

Alan Averill

This is the Podcast of Alan Averill aka Nemtheanga, vocalist of the Irish Metal band Primordial for almost the last three decades! It's all about music industry commentary and insider info, rock n roll stories from a life on the road, travel experiences from every continent, piracy and general skullduggery, gallows humour, some political observation, musings on history and culture and some good old Irish psychoanalysis. A Vagabond of the Western World!.....

  • 29 minutes 46 seconds
    Are we heading for DIRE STRAITS?...

    Are we heading for some really Dire Straits because of the war in the Middle East? Energy rationing? stay at home and work orders? or is that fear mongering....? did you realise how important Desallination was? how is all of this gonna effect the music industry, and touring? negatively is my guess. Kannonfeiber digging into the trenches to defend their merch positions! and it all ends with a eulogy for Neurosis and some news about a live podcast in Oslo....

    'THE FREE SPEECH PRINCIPLE'

    will be at Kniven bar in Oslo on Saturday April 4th

    together with Shayan from Iblis Manifestations and Trivax

    no charge, so get down there....

    follow me

    nemtheanga_primordial

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    support the show over at :

    https://patreon.com/AlanAverill

    Primordial on Spotify

    YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !!

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=yFFV8ypSSDOESUX62_0TzQ

    sponsored by Metal Blade records

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    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

    or email [email protected]

    Primordial cds/lps available from

    https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/

    death metal

    VERMINOUS SERPENT

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

    doom

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

    goth

    APRILMEN

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    27 March 2026, 2:44 pm
  • 36 minutes 32 seconds
    Making metal in authoritarian states

    Following a trip to Albania I consider all the various coefficients that have to go together to allow scenes to exist in harsh conditions, religious oppression, totalitarian regimes or outright poverty, how does metal always somehow find a way through any cracks to take root. Even in the harshest conditions, and why that struggle is what defines so much of the glory of old metal. Yet some reasons across the globe are also much more subtle and not what you would imagine on first glance....Let's take a look at why and how scenes take root

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    support the show over at :

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    Primordial on Spotify

    YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !!

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=yFFV8ypSSDOESUX62_0TzQ

    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

    or email [email protected]

    Primordial cds/lps available from

    https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/

    death metal

    VERMINOUS SERPENT

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

    doom

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

    goth

    APRILMEN

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

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    20 March 2026, 2:21 pm
  • 40 minutes 4 seconds
    The pleasure is to play....does it matter what you get paid?

    Today's podcast looks back at the history of record contracts, over 100 years ago and asks were musicians back then paid more for their work than streaming does now? was the music industry the canary in the coalmine, the first example of 'You will own nothing and be happy' ideal along with piracy and digital streaming and is it just another example of the hollowing out of the middle class?

    Find out

    Apologies for the AI Art....I couldn't resist this one

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    support the show over at :

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    Primordial on Spotify

    YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !!

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=yFFV8ypSSDOESUX62_0TzQ

    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

    or email [email protected]

    Primordial cds/lps available from

    https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/

    death metal

    VERMINOUS SERPENT

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

    doom

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

    goth

    APRILMEN

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

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    13 March 2026, 8:56 am
  • 33 minutes 48 seconds
    VIP tour packages

    These days almost every tour has a meet and greet VIP package, I used to feel they were immoral but with ever rising costs I evaluate my position and wonder are they essential now to a musicians ability to earn anything on tour anymore?

    it's a complex moral conundrum....so let's get into it

    nemtheanga_primordial

    on the gram

    support the show over at :

    https://patreon.com/AlanAverill

    Primordial on Spotify

    YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !!

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=yFFV8ypSSDOESUX62_0TzQ

    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

    or email [email protected]

    Primordial cds/lps available from

    https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/

    death metal

    VERMINOUS SERPENT

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

    doom

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

    goth

    APRILMEN

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

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    6 March 2026, 8:00 am
  • 26 minutes 49 seconds
    Are we the thieves of Joy?

    I missed out Episode 290 so let's go back in time, this one is kinda rambling and all over the place, why Rock N Roll and all the trappings, spices, side dishes, hangovers, come downs and black eyes seem like something from another century. Is it even possible to be Rock N Roll anymore? Part 3 of why nothing feels the same, why nothing little feels joyous or reckless anymore, going to gigs, socializing, is this just ageing or is there something else going on? Let's find out....maybe it's just me and I need some Vitamin D

    Maybe it's all one giant piss take....?

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    support the show over at :

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    Primordial on Spotify

    YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !!

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=yFFV8ypSSDOESUX62_0TzQ

    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

    or email [email protected]

    Primordial cds/lps available from

    https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/

    death metal

    VERMINOUS SERPENT

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

    doom

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

    goth

    APRILMEN

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

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    27 February 2026, 2:12 pm
  • 37 minutes 25 seconds
    Why nothing feels the same anymore...

    Following on from last weeks 'Why old metal hates new metal' podcast, we take it a bit further this week, could be metal could be any old subculture to be honest, what are the reasons we feel alienated, detached and disenfranchised? From cities being too expensive for artists to live in to venues closing down, the death of the record shop to the redundancy of the recording studio and rehearsal room....where you once learned a craft. Nothing really feels the same anymore.....

    nemtheanga_primordial

    on the gram

    support the show over at :

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    Primordial on Spotify

    YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !!

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=yFFV8ypSSDOESUX62_0TzQ

    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

    or email [email protected]

    Primordial cds/lps available from

    https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/

    death metal

    VERMINOUS SERPENT

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

    doom

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

    goth

    APRILMEN

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

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    20 February 2026, 8:00 am
  • 32 minutes 20 seconds
    Why old metal hates new metal.....

    Why do older metal fans find most newer metal bands so difficult to relate to? Is it just generational, don't the old folks always complain about the music young people like or is there more to it? riffs.....the sound.....the vocals....the image....what is it?

    nemtheanga_primordial

    on the gram

    support the show over at :

    https://patreon.com/AlanAverill

    Primordial on Spotify

    YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !!

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=yFFV8ypSSDOESUX62_0TzQ

    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

    or email [email protected]

    Primordial cds/lps available from

    https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/

    death metal

    VERMINOUS SERPENT

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

    doom

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

    goth

    APRILMEN

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

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    13 February 2026, 10:37 am
  • 31 minutes 11 seconds
    Keeper of the Epstein Keys

    I couldn't resist, having never talked about Epstein before with the week that's in it I couldn't not cast a few scurrilous glances across the whole dirty affair and see what's going on.....

    as it seems, a lot of pretty dark stuff, let's get grubby

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    support the show over at :

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    Primordial on Spotify

    YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !!

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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

    or email [email protected]

    Primordial cds/lps available from

    https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/

    death metal

    VERMINOUS SERPENT

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

    doom

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

    goth

    APRILMEN

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

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    6 February 2026, 8:00 am
  • 23 minutes 39 seconds
    ...is the new MEGADETH album any good?

    This is the audio from a recent video on my Youtube channel

    https://www.youtube.com/@AlanAverillNemtheanga

    if you want to watch the original

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    YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !!

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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

    or email [email protected]

    Primordial cds/lps available from

    https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/

    death metal

    VERMINOUS SERPENT

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

    doom

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

    goth

    APRILMEN

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

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    3 February 2026, 9:00 am
  • 42 minutes 13 seconds
    How can you tour arenas and be broke?

    Recently a bunch of people shared me a story about a band (called Witch Fever) who've been out touring in arenas but are absolutely broke, how can that be? well actually it can be very easy, and probably expected in their position, I'll explain why, the logistics and math involved and also ponder and is it possible the band their agency and manager anticipated this outcome and have crafted it into their promotional angle, knowing full well they were going to come out more or less empty handed? it's very possible....or am I too cynical.....? find out in today's podcast

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    support the show over at :

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    Primordial on Spotify

    YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !!

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=yFFV8ypSSDOESUX62_0TzQ

    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

    or email [email protected]

    Primordial cds/lps available from

    https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/

    death metal

    VERMINOUS SERPENT

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

    doom

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

    goth

    APRILMEN

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

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    30 January 2026, 8:00 am
  • 31 minutes 24 seconds
    Greenland, Iceland, any old land will do....

    What other Heavy metal podcast tries to make some kinda sense of geo-politics? that's right.....almost none! Perhaps for good reason, perhaps not. Today I take a sideways look at the craziness around the Greenland situation, why it's more strategic than you might think in a world where the old order is rapidly falling apart, has the West has been asleep at the wheel, why Icelandic food sucks so bad and who's up next in this episode of national super market sweep!

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    support the show over at :

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    Primordial on Spotify

    YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !!

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=yFFV8ypSSDOESUX62_0TzQ

    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

    or email [email protected]

    Primordial cds/lps available from

    https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/

    death metal

    VERMINOUS SERPENT

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

    doom

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

    goth

    APRILMEN

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

    Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast.

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    23 January 2026, 9:09 am
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