Agankast - Insomniac

Agankast - Walking With Angels Running With Devils [Disc 1]

1 Walking With Angels
2 Insomniac
3 Little America
4 March to Hell
5 English Heart Scottish Blood
6 Morebattle
7 Mortality
8 Crematorium

Written and Produced by Rob Redhead 2007

In 2007 and after two years of recording gigging and rehearsing i knew it was time to end Agankast i suggested to Alan and Ciaran that they should replace me and continue on with the name which they did for a few months then created a new band with a different name, the lads were a bit perplexed at the time wondering why i was giving up the band but i knew how these things worked and i was'nt prepared to spend the next 10 years slogging away when it was obvious that the music industry was over. Thats not to say you gave in!.. just that for me personally i feel that if im in or create a band thats excellent and no one comes knocking at the door with management or record deal offers after two long years then whats the point? i may as well go off travelling again.. which is exactly what i did.
I knew the lads were young and going off to university etc so their journey was just starting and so i put the pressure on myself to try and come up with not just the best Agankast album but the best heavy metal album i could write!.. and it was going to be called "Walking With Angels Running With Devils", a double album of songs, disc one being all of my stuff and disc two "Running with Devils" both mine and alans songs.
I always thought of agankast as maybe a "Heavy Metal Led Zeppelin" that was what i had in mind from the start.. so for example our videos i would utilise the many old castle ruins in the area acting out as a great video backdrop for our music video's.. like led zeppelins "song remains the same" film. I did say to alan once that it would be great if we could do a video of us all galloping on white horses which he thought was a great idea as he knew somebody who kept horses, the music video of this never happened fortunately as we probably would have looked hilarious with none of us having ever rode a horse before.
Horses aside i began writing and recording the last album a double album to boot.. and it nearly killed me doing it, guitarist ciaran was let loose on all the tracks and alans vocals were confident and controlled and my trademark orchestral guitar parts the whole thing worked out really well. It took a few months to complete and when done i remember burning it to a cd lying back on my settee and listening to the whole album, when it finished i knew i had done it, it sounded like "where i'm from" the countryside with its ancient ruins, it sounded metal and zeppelinish. This final Agankast album had taken it out of me which i knew it would.. but i also knew that i wanted the band to go out in style. I'm confident that this album and Agankast's music will be unearthed and recognised in the future, the future is a long time.. so thats a long time to allow for Agankast to get discovered.