Primordial interview - war, politics, Ireland, history and then some

[@AnfalasHerdsman]

the thing with Alan is that he talks with the person like an individual, not like a media/journalist guy; that immediatly creates a mood, and a real atmosphere, nothing is faked.

[@iKnowFast]

That depends on how many beers are involved.

[@BarBarian-sy5xz]

This guy is great. I don’t know his music that well but his YT channel is excellent. Jerry rules too.

[@nesnesitelnej5764]

I just came back to see this interview for the third time already. Alan is such a chill and wise guy, thank you for the opportunity to hear him Mr. Rauta:)

[@RautaMetal]

Wow, thanks!

[@Snarl616]

A deep guy with a lot of thoughts and very intelligent. If this interview was 2 hours long, I'd be perfectly fine with it.

[@iKnowFast]

He's a front guy, it would be quite shit if he wasn't interesting.

[@unbornproductions7917]

Another level of a Rauta-interview.

[@johannespeters694]

The kind of interview I like. Interesting thoughts there, and he's well spoken.

[@MrAaronbathory]

Nemtheanga is easily one of my favourite metal personalities. Primordial are one of the best bands ever.

[@xxswamplordxx2079]

Yes, long interviews are great. Don't worry about going too long, it's really good stuff! I wish to even hear long podcasts with band members, but who knows if anyone could ever do that.

[@RautaMetal]

Good to know. Thanks!

[@nordicdusk]

Can listen to Alan talk all day a wonderful speaker and great human . Best band I have ever seen live they are still one of the most underrated bands in metal.

[@darkhymnsfromthecoldnorth]

They are underrated. I feel like they have a good following but I never hear people talk about them. To The Nameless Dead is one of the best albums ever made, and I have said this to Alan personally.

[@pvilches06]

Another superb, informative and very interesting interview my friend. It doesn't matter that it went longe than 10min, imo the questions and answers were great. Alan cheers on such down to earth, honest and intelligent conversation. Cheers to you Rauta on another amazing video. I cannot wait for the next one. Cheers to Werwolf and the mighty SW too!! :)

[@RautaMetal]

Thank you very much! Alan is truly a great person and a great interviewee! Werwolf's attack was a nice little surprise I didn't see coming, heh...

[@pvilches06]

@@RautaMetal Yes, that was such a great surprise :) Cheers my friend!! 🍻🍻

[@RautaMetal]

Cheers buddy!

[@esotericwarpedagogics3112]

I like interviews such as this. There has to be another one with Nemtheanga soon, his intelligence is projected through his insight. Awesome stuff.

[@RautaMetal]

Yep. Interviewing him was really great. Didn't have to ask much and he just kept pouring those comments and answers to me.

[@user-bm3ts2ql6s]

Their new album is great and the man is absolutely brilliant. This is one of the best interviews i've heard in a long time. Really impressed with both Nem and Rauta.

[@RautaMetal]

Thanks!

[@kevinking4584]

What a cool guy to talk to. Very intelligent and interesting to listen to. Great interview.

[@RautaMetal]

Thank you, Kevin.

[@silviupop1771]

this is, in my opinion, your best and interesting interview ever (even if I love them all) :D best questions, best answers and topics and... best men

[@RautaMetal]

Thank you very much!

[@schninx]

oh shit. this was sooooo goood. try to catch him up again

[@RautaMetal]

Thanks

[@samirpashayev5946]

enjoyed the interview! it was interesting to listen in on you guys chatting. Primordial deserves all the love and more!

[@RautaMetal]

Thanks and fully agreed about the last part.

[@barock371]

very entertaining interview! I actually liked that it was longer than usually👍

[@RautaMetal]

Good to hear. Thank you!

[@brandijohnson1326]

Wow what a awesome interview Primordial rocks, I hope to catch them in LA if they come to the States.

[@RautaMetal]

Brandi Johnson Thanks!

[@oneirosmorpheus]

They were at 1720 last night. What an amazing show man. I almost didn't go. My bud was able to get a ticket for me.

[@jordanb.1477]

Really great interview--nice job! Alan is such an interesting and articulate guy. Primordial forever.

[@RautaMetal]

Cheers!

[@Stallan666]

Great interview. I was lucky enough to see Primordial at Hellfest in 2011 (coming from Canada) and Alan's performance (as well as the rest of the band) was spellbinding. I was literally in awe of how much passion and emotion and power there was in the music. I believe Alan is one the best and most underrated frontmen in metal!

[@RautaMetal]

Aye. Alan is super! Thanks for the comment, too.

[@kaoskewenvoyouma2712]

I spoke too soon. I'd really like to have a convo with Nemtheanga. Especially on his take on Native American topics. No left or right bullshit. Just straight Pagan to Pagan. RUATA always gives the best interviews!

[@RautaMetal]

Yes. He's a a nice, well-spoken and smart guy who doesn't waste time on bullshit. I'm glad to have gotten to know him a bit more with this interview and after that. He also has a podcast you might want to follow. RAUTA, not RUATA ;-)

[@kaoskewenvoyouma2712]

@@RautaMetal what is the podcast? Haha sorry for the misspelling. You give great interviews, down to earth and straight to the point, with a beer course. Much support from Hopi, AZ. USA!

[@RautaMetal]

Thank you, Kaos. No worries regarding misspelling. kzbin.info

[@GerardoCaruso]

Always delivering great spontaneous interviews. As someone who loves extreme music, philosophy and politics this was awesome to watch. Keep up the great work! \m/

[@RautaMetal]

Thank you very much!

[@tuzonthume]

25:00 I saw Neal Schoen(sp?) solo 'wheel in the sky' in center of a flaming pentagram in 1981.

[@johan4461]

Great interview, man.

[@RautaMetal]

Thanks!

[@heppatytto90]

Very likeable. Never listened the band but I'll check it out right away.

[@Startrekker77]

Best Rauta video ever!!!!! So rad!!!

[@RautaMetal]

Thanks!

[@richb3802]

Another insightful interview with Alan. One of Metal most interesting characters.

[@obsoleteelite8258]

“There is a chance that we are hurdling through space into infinite darkness.” This makes me want to experience this band even more.

[@anvilbrunner.2013]

Proper Irish answers. Going around the houses, making a short story long. Filled with obscure folkish wisdom & dextrous with evasive tangency'. Like any James Joyce. Now i'll away & listen to Primordial for the first time.

[@thispastspring3733]

"The black and white answer doesn't interest me, generally, I'm interested in the grey reasons in between." -Man... I relate to this 100%. Excellent interview, once again! You do great in directing the artists to things I really want to know about and have a lot of depth. Cheers, Rauta!

[@RautaMetal]

Thank you very much!

[@TERGENIS]

Alan knows exactly what he is talking about.

[@RautaMetal]

Indeed!

[@nihilist1280]

I just got into this band. He seems like a really cool guy and a great musician. Seems like I'll become a big fan. EDIT: Now that I've seen the whole interview, this guy is actually one of the few people with brain in metal today. Finally someone with an objective perspective on politics, religion etc. Would love to meet this guy!

[@RautaMetal]

Glad you found the band and liked the interview. Alan is a great guy for sure.

[@douglasquaid7550]

Very interesting interview, the topics of the conversation was great.

[@deathtomichaelknagge4397]

Wow great interview. I first ran across primordial on the first upon a dark horizon compilation. It was the track infernal summer. Great stuff. Nice to see an intelligent discussion with an artist. Bonus was tyrant werwolf cameo.

[@RautaMetal]

Thank you! I'm really happy about this myself, too. Yeah, Werwolf popping up out of "nowhere" was a funny bonus there.

[@daniellewis6344]

This dude is intelligent, I feel like he is censoring himself to remain safe from any kind of persecution though. ;)

[@DarkIacco]

Yeah nowadays european politics/media kind of censore opinions more than it openly did in the past

[@resumacast]

@@DarkIacco not only the media. If you are not a radical militant of something in their list you are always at risk of being cancelled. And by the way under very low intellectual, moral and aesthetic fashion.

[@DiogenesWasRight90]

Wish they would do a show in oregon or washington but would totally understand why they wouldn't.

[@RautaMetal]

Can you enlighten me why they wouldn't?

[@michaelaerts8798]

Alan's columns in zero tolerance-magazine are also essential reading! The guy should start writing books! And keep making amazing metal obviously, also check out his side-project Dread Sovereign!

[@voltmandk.h.sherman777]

Alan is deep person with a great sens of humor! Thank you for the interview comerades! Cheers Jerry and Alan :D ;D!

[@RautaMetal]

Glad you liked it!

[@gesethemenebujolds2837]

@ 14:50 Satanic Warmaster cameo was awesome! where else would you see that?!! RRRRRRauta is the best!

[@RautaMetal]

Thanks man. Yeah, it was a funny event here. Our comradeship goes a long way back to late 90's.

[@gesethemenebujolds2837]

@@RautaMetal Awesome! Really spectacular interviews, truly unique and elite content regularly on your channel, it is really great

[@RautaMetal]

Thank you, GB, nice to hear you enjoy the content. Stay tuned for more metal interviews coming!

[@MrAlexisblack]

Amazing interview !! I met Allan in one show here in NYC very cool person

[@RautaMetal]

Thanks!

[@h.w.8160]

Great interview! Sláinte!

[@RautaMetal]

agriā invicta Cheers! Slainte!

[@AlanAverillNemtheanga]

To hear AAN/Primordial's podcast go to : kzbin.info/door/H-BtARZJ6ZgzQeqiWK3diw?view_as=subscriber

[@RautaMetal]

Yeah, everybody, do this!

[@Trollmann85]

The impact A Journey's End had on me can't be described in words. Hails from Finland!

[@AnfalasHerdsman]

19:40 I swear to you, Alan did the same reaction in my interview back in 2017 (i have a platonic crush on that individual) . I dont like promoting my stuff a lot but here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHqplKmPgrKspMU go to 32:47

[@RautaMetal]

Awesome :D

[@AnfalasHerdsman]

Rauta hahaha yeah!

[@bradrogers3033]

I don't who the true enemies are but when you speak their name is echos.

[@jimmyfingers227]

Redcoats

[@ms-06fzakuii53]

@@jimmyfingers227 *smallhats

[@J.G.M.Jr.]

@@ms-06fzakuii53 yes.

[@darkhymnsfromthecoldnorth]

Does anyone know anything about the 7 inch that was released around the time of Where Greater Men Have Fallen? I have never heard of it and its bugging me.

[@Zelazny86]

It was included in the limited edition, it's this release www.metal-archives.com/albums/Primordial/Where_Greater_Men_Have_Fallen/468711

[@darkhymnsfromthecoldnorth]

@@Zelazny86 thanks!

[@nedi1150]

Excellent interview.

[@notexactlyrocketscience]

As much as I love his music, he is a short-sighted idealist. We need a strong and united Europe now more than ever. Then again, we need voices like his to counterbalance some of the more recent movements.

[@Brunetto46]

Great interview man👍👍

[@RautaMetal]

Thanks!

[@DanielJackson2010]

Jeez for the moment you had me there with that thick Finnish accent or what it was. :D

[@RautaMetal]

Accents are the best.

[@DanielJackson2010]

@@RautaMetal haha.. it was fun to watch. I mean, there is a line somewhere if you go beyond, the accents take over the whole message and the content becomes incomprehensible. I was like, is he speaking Finnish or English with extra thick accent :) *it didn't sound Swedish.

[@RautaMetal]

Haha. Fair enough

[@krysstoffer]

very interesting to watch!

[@RobHellfire666]

8:39 Alan, my Irish brother, with deep respect I disagree with you. You're somehow forgetting about one of the most important bands of old school rock / metal history, an -Irish - band by the name of Thin Lizzy!! Also, you're forgetting about stiff Little fingers, who started out the same the as the sex pistols, out of northern Ireland (my homeland) Plus (as you mentioned) Slade. Pop/ rock/ punk was absolutely festering in Ireland Like the fields of our Rotten potato's! The ingredients were always there. It's worth mentioning The Exploited from Scotland..

[@tomo1747]

Primordial, love them, they rock, 🤘

[@blackpopepaul]

Really good interview

[@ვლადიმერნიკოლაიშვილი]

My band

[@kevanbaconofficial]

No Irish post-punk? Ummmm, the Virgin Prunes are fucking awesome.

[@theplaguebearer666]

I've loved Primordial from the start. Journey's End is in my top ten. This interview makes me feel whole. I'd to have a wank over my Bathory albums! .... but they don't quite do it for me.

[@RautaMetal]

Cheers, Andy. A wank with Bathory is much appreciated. One of the greatest bands ever.

[@classe-tmb]

It took him some years to admit that he prefers priests to gay people

[@Malar1ya]

Great stuff!! :D \m/

[@Nobody-dl4tm]

Alan is the man

[@SamuraiiiJack]

ahah cool interview

[@RautaMetal]

Thanks!

[@matthewwalsh974]

What an incredibly smart guy. Great interview, rauta. This guy is the Jordan Peterson of black metal haha

[@RautaMetal]

Cheers!

[@GrossePutea5Dollards]

man!! what's a intelligent and calm man! black metal bring WISDOM.. period

[@resumacast]

I would not count on Black Metal for his wisdom. There are plenty of guy in bands, not to mention fans, which are just the opposite of everything he represents. Mostly black metal bands are doing childishly blasphemy against sacred symbols and trying to subvert the meaning of everything they can. This guy is setting things into its right place.

[@GrossePutea5Dollards]

@@resumacast LOOOOL! what's are u talking about ! I guess you're a American ? If you think black metal is only about blasphemy and Satanism you're soooo out of touch with the varieties of the genre. There's pagan black metal wrote song about ancients cultures and beliefs, atmospheric bands wrote songs about nature and introspection and the list goes on and on. Black Metal is far more than blasphemous thematics from the second wave and pretentious intellectualism circle jerks from hipsters.

[@resumacast]

@@GrossePutea5Dollards I agree with you. But I’m from 80/90s when all this variety didn’t exist. Not being satanist and preferably bond to an extreme political ideology would automatically put your band in the limbo.

[@GrossePutea5Dollards]

@@resumacast ohhhh! my bad, pal. I'm old too and get salty over time with people, especially Americans who's get into BM. Don't get me wrong i love toooons of cultural and entertainment stuff from the home of the braves. But, I'm really some kind of elitist when its come to black metal outside from Europe and Quebec. Same for exemple to Death Metal, i forced to admit American makes better Death Metal and Hardcore than Europeans. There's some exception to the rules, of course. But, overall is what i observe. It's all good, no harsh feeling. Cheers

[@resumacast]

@@GrossePutea5Dollards No problem mate. Being harsh was never a problem for my generation Lol. Cowardice and political correctness unfortunately has become an overall desired trace of personality among metal fans nowadays. . I’m Brazilian and for many years i couldn’t understand the lyrics so I’d never made a distinction on themes and ideology of lyrics content. If it’s saying something I disagree I will take it as the artists opinion or impressions on it. As for the death metal I’m might be just on the opposite side of you Lol. Some of the biggest for me in the 90: were the European ones like Carcass, Pestilence, Entombed, Dismember, Hypocrisy, Gorefeast Atrocity and Napalm. From America I have only 2 fave death metal bands: Death and Obituary.

[@hellkommen]

👌

[@RobHellfire666]

BTW, JHONNY ROTTEN IS IRISH!! 😎🍀

[@oleksiysaiko5859]

Finally normal answer regarding religion, even though I'm not totally agree with him, still, intelligent answer, and not - "Hail Satan! Black Metal is about Satan and Odin!"

[@RautaMetal]

Exactly.

[@Olliezombie001]

As a Catholic I applaud Alan's perspective on the social and ethical moral code we all need to keep us from the evils of modernism.

[@satanicboxer562]

Not a big primordial fan if I’m honest and I don’t get the Irish thing. I grew up with the ira letting bombs off everywhere and seeing our people laying dead on the pavement on the front pages of all the news papers.I like his work on marduks accuser though excellent song and I thought his odd singing tone went well with mortuus.Good interview though as always.

[@RautaMetal]

Thank you, mate. Sorry to hear you had to grow up with that nasty IRA shit.

[@satanicboxer562]

@@RautaMetal no need to be sorry pal it’s just stuff that happened between our two countries.The English are no saints either ,just a nasty business.My uncle served many years in n Ireland with the Gloucester regiment.The mans a burnt out husk these days ,never mentally recovered.Anyway it’s about music not politics.It’s not simply because primordial are Irish that I don’t like them I just don’t like their music that’s all.Like i said good interview anyway mate.

[@RautaMetal]

@@satanicboxer562 Yes, but still shitty thing to hear. Visited Belfast once and it quickly reminded how much shit happened there with all the bombs and guerrilla tactics.

[@satanicboxer562]

@@RautaMetal hate’s a very strong thing mate it never truly goes away it just smoulders.It’s a pity though because anyone can be friends if you strip away all the bullshit .

[@RautaMetal]

@@satanicboxer562 Such is human life.

[@mattlee2899]

Can't use reason on someone who argues with a Talmud in hand.

[@SoundSelector]

Alan's music was inspiring. Hearing him speak is an absolute disappointment of a man.

[@RautaMetal]

Why disappointed?

[@TheBramVC]

@@RautaMetal He's a clown, nvm him.

[@RautaMetal]

@@TheBramVC OK!

[@jamesmacoisdealbhaigh9904]

You're a disappointment to humanity

[@Metalheim-f6d]

This was not your best effort. It seemed like you hadn't done much background check. Nemtheanga, who is very good with words, had problems answering your vague questions.This is my favorite band and I had my expectations high.

[@RautaMetal]

I'll tell you a secret: I rarely do background stuff. I wanna go there like a virgin noob asking the questions I wouldn't ask if I already knew the answers to them, you know. I like to keep my questions somewhat vague, as I've learned my lesson to not to ask "yes/no" questions. So, of course if this is your favorite band, you're bound to be disappointed. That's just how it goes.

[@Metalheim-f6d]

Yes I know your style, but it didn't work this time. @@RautaMetal

[@Nielsfest]

This guy's accent is the worst ever.

[@RautaMetal]

Which one? Me or Alan? Clearly you haven't heard Indians speaking English, haha. (Or travelled, for that matter.)

[@Nielsfest]

@@RautaMetal I was talking about the host of Rauta. Indian?

[@RautaMetal]

Nielsfest If my accent is the worst ever yet most people can understand me, you really need to get out of your home country and see and hear the world. I know for a fact that my accent is very clear compared to millions out there :) Too bad it's too much for you.

[@RautaMetal]

Nielsfest Btw you should check out my Archgoat and Azaghal interviews too for some proper Finnish accent :)

[@Nielsfest]

@@RautaMetal Damn I'm stepping on some toes here lol. Don't get stressed about your accent. It's just that you REALLY have one. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Keep working at it man!

[@mapleleafer74]

Great Svenska!!!

[@RautaMetal]

Tack, tack!