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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