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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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    Verminous Serpent

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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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    Verminous Serpent

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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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    Verminous Serpent

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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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    Verminous Serpent

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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!

    you can order the album on vinyl or cd at this link

    https://shop.amor-fati-productions.de/en/suche?controller=search&orderby=position&orderway=desc&search_query=Verminous+serpent&submit_search=

    or follow the band over on Spotify

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=axcn2VngTYqcB93nG6bkbg

    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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    Verminous Serpent

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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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    Verminous Serpent

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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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    Verminous Serpent

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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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    https://instagram.com/brazen_tongue 

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    and

    WRACH one man Black Metal war from Wales

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    Primordial on Spotify

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    Metal Blade records

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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

    Listeners to Agitators Anonymous can receive 10% off their order by  

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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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    Todays band sponsors BRAZEN TONGUE

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Z63cqXyFlU506JN4HB3RW?si=bS_V3SjxSWatiBtPuCdBDw

    https://instagram.com/brazen_tongue 

    https://brazentongue.bandcamp.com/ 

    and

    WRACH one man Black Metal war from Wales

    Listeners to Agitators Anonymous can receive 10% off their order by  

    Inputting the code ALANAW @ apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk  

    https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/products/

    for more info

    Primordial on Spotify

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    sponsored by

    Metal Blade records

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    Verminous Serpent

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  • Todays band sponsors BRAZEN TONGUE

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Z63cqXyFlU506JN4HB3RW?si=bS_V3SjxSWatiBtPuCdBDw

    https://instagram.com/brazen_tongue 

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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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    Todays band sponsors BRAZEN TONGUE

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Z63cqXyFlU506JN4HB3RW?si=bS_V3SjxSWatiBtPuCdBDw

    https://instagram.com/brazen_tongue 

    https://brazentongue.bandcamp.com/ 

    and

    WRACH one man Black Metal war from Wales

    Listeners to Agitators Anonymous can receive 10% off their order by  

    Inputting the code ALANAW @ apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk  

    https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/products/

    for more info

    Primordial on Spotify

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6...

    sponsored by

    Metal Blade records

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    promo code AA 2024 for 10% off your order

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

    https://www.facebook.com/DragonProductionsOfficial

    Verminous Serpent

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    Dread Sovereign

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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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    https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Z63cqXyFlU506JN4HB3RW?si=bS_V3SjxSWatiBtPuCdBDw

    https://instagram.com/brazen_tongue 

    ttps://brazentongue.bandcamp.com/ 

    Primordial on Spotify

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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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    https://www.facebook.com/DragonProductionsOfficial

    Verminous Serpent

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