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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!.....
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a chat w/ Aaron Stainthorpe (Towards the Sinister, High Parasite, ex - My Dying Bride)
Today's episode has been quite a while in the making but here we are, a chat with Aaron Stainthorpe from Towards the Sinister, High Parasite and ex My Dying Bride of course. We go all the way back to the origins of the band in the late 80s,
Front row seat at a Riot....
I happened be right there last weekend at a protest and subsequent riot in France, right there.....front row seats, I spent all day among the protestors and all night watching the rioting and looting. 20 yards away, and todays podcast is wh
Does everything have to be political?
Does everything have to be political....all of the time? After the recent, largely manufactured drama over a statement by James Hetfield to the contrary I look at the backlash, how much of it is real, what the freezing effect is and why it'
CRONOS R.I.P - another legend has left the building....
another legend has left the building, Cronos from Venom. Taken way too early. Venom were probably the most important band in my development as young metalhead, the rock upon which the church was built, so to say, so I put some random though
Nice boys don't play rock n roll
After a short two week enforced interlude I'm back, not in the studio for this one but recording remotely. Today's podcast is about Angry Anderson, a true rock n roll legend who passed away during the week. I wonder is it even possible for
Where exactly does a bands fee go?
In today's podcast I break down where a 3k band fee for a festival goes to, agents, artist taxes, flights, luggage......and why this is becoming almost entirely untenable, this and other music industry observations and mathematical grasping
"Don't you remember?" you old fool.....being mocked by CHATGPT
In today's podcast I ramble across a few different things, being asked "Don't I remember" by ChatGPT....about a conspiracy theory discussion from months before, so wait.....what....it's my own ChatGPT?.....or....was I being gently mocked by
Are you in the Mano(war)sphere?
Interrupted while day dreaming about a Manowar poster I had when I was 14....I get ambushed into discussing the Manosphere with an old friend, am I in it? is the main thrust of questioning. It was silly, it was serious.....some points were
Dead embryonic cells, becoming a walking meme and some EU eco (can I play with) madness......
In today's episode I mull over Sepultura's last ever European show, feeling left out in the cold by that corporate arena feeling and why bands choose huge screens with AI imagery over lights and amps, what did Inner Self mean anyway? Being
I tried to make it back to 1984....
Recently I was mixing an album and desperately tried to make the studio into a time machine, to take me back to 1984, and failed. Well kinda, sorta.....made it back some of the way then the dials on the DeLorean starting smoking and I ended
Is the golden age of underground musical creativity over?
This weeks episode is inspired by a week of listening to old demos from the late 80s and early 90s, a chance discussion with Paul from Blood Incantation about why some bands that seemed so vital from back in those days never made it, yet ma
Cultural misunderstandings....and music industry communication breakdowns
In today's podcast I consider the implications that music is now one of the least important parts of promoting an album, what that means for the art form, when was the last time you shared a link to music and not a clip of people talking ab
Examining the culture war hype surrounding 'The Odyssey'
In today's episode I tread out into ankle deep waters of the let's be frank mostly nonsense culture war hysteria surrounding Christopher Nolan's new movie, an adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey" and consider the argument, should movies be h
Adapt or Die? do we have to accept the dumbing down of the metal scene?
Does the old school metal scene and music industry in general simply have to accept the dumbing down of the scene through the influx of content creating gimmick bands or is it possible to resist? As it's clear that within an ageing scene th
MONUMENTAL POSSESSION - introducing the band
Born in 2015, VOLUME BRUTAL is a non-profit organization which releases LPs/CDs/Tapes, organizes gigs and other metal-related events (record market...). The stuff we sell on the website is from our own collection or stuff we traded with oth
Why some bands don't understand their legacy...
Some bands just don't seem to understand what their legacy means, right? or are we just being gatekeeping assholes, obsessing over every little thing and small detail? and don't those kind of assholes exist in every walk of life? This and I
Whats the backstage music industry gossip this year?
What are the chattering heavy metal music industry classes discussing in the backstage this summer? Find out in today's podcast.... Warning.....Optimize you content potential.....and other such horrid phrases will be used over the length of
How you approach playing a big festival
Today's podcast is coming to you from a hotel room in Poland, as Primordial plays Mystic festival tonight, they say.....say what you see so that's what I'm doing today, discussing what goes into getting you from your front door to the stage
introducing DEAMONOLITH
Introducing Polish concept ensemble Deamonolith. (https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Deamonolith) The band was founded in 2022, but its members have been consistently active in the underground scene since the 90s (we played in bands like
Why is so much modern mainstream metal so F'N childish?
So today's podcast is a spicy meatball, where I throw a lot of shade, as the young people say.....earlier in the week I was contacted by Rock Hard magazine in France to discuss one of the most important questions of our time, why is so much
The enshittification of your life (part 1)
I learnt a new word: 'enshittification', stage 1 is attraction, stage 2 is abuse and stage 3 is extraction....how platforms lure people in and slowly once they have audience capture and people rely on them begin turning the screw and abusin
as we pass into myth
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The free speech principle
Today's podcast is a collaboration with Shayan from Iblis Manifestations/Trivax. During this years Inferno festival we got together to do an independent talk entitled 'The free speech principle' at Kniven bar. Despite harbouring an absolute
...is 1987 the greatest year in Heavy Metal history?
Episode 300 is proper Metal nerdism, together with Joe from that GAMA BOMB we debate our top 20 + a few stragglers of the year 1987 and realise we have vastly different victors when we get down to the crunch! could 1987 be the dark horse en
Turns out the new saviours of rock n' roll were just a marketing psyop
Geese.....yep.....Geese who were being touted as the new saviours of rock n' roll by the Guardian newspaper only a month or two ago have turned out to be more or less a marketing psyop created by a brand strategy company called Chaotic Good
Was there an FBI conspiracy to kill off rock music?....no seriously.....
Was there an FBI conspiracy to kill off rock music? eh....no seriously....sort of, well Billy Corgan alluded to it on his podcast so I take it on face value and look into what changed. If we take Woodstock 99' as the last high point of angr
Welcome to the old boys club.....
The first time Primordial played Inferno festival in Norway was 20 years ago, I reflect on then and now. Have we just graduated to the middle aged men's club without knowing it? growing old with the same people year in and year out on the f
Is Pagan Metal refuge or revivalism?
After a weekend at a Pagan Metal metal festival, and all the adjacent forms of music, medieval music, new folk, and all the newer bands in the Heilung/Wardruna vein I ask the simple question, is this revivalism and a genuine rejection of th
...is 1987 the greatest year in Heavy Metal history?.....
Episode 300 is proper heavy metal nerdism, together with Joe from that GAMA BOMB we go over our top 20 or so albums of 1987, and find we have wildly varying tastes when it gets down to the crunch. Whose side are you on? We also consider, co
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 effe
