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  • Finally, the third LP from AGNOSY has arrived! 

    AGNOSY-cover

    Dark, heavy, galloping crust from the streets of London. AGNOSY is back to present us with a ferocious beast of an album that can only be forged by the anger and frustration of living in today’s world. “When Daylight Reveals The Torture” aggressively attacks evils such the current rise of fascism and animal abuse. It intelligently and passionately touches on the Afrin invasion and the revolution in Rojava and shows nothing but utter disgust toward the arrogance of humankind’s lust for greed and power that will inevitably lead us down paths of war and environmental devastation.

    AGNOSY – Live at SCUMFEST in London. 2011

    While lyrically AGNOSY are much more politicly straight forward this time around than on previous releases, musically they have expanded on their sound to create a dark and moody atmosphere while at the same time staying crust as fuck. To say they know what they are doing would be an understatement from this band of vets whose members have played in HIATUS, HEALTH HAZARD, and BEGINNING OF THE END.

    Long galloping intros are followed up by traditional d-beat, fierce solo’s are then meet with vicious vocals and pulverizing bass in a brilliant recording captured by Lewis Johns at The Ranch Production House and was mastered by Brad Boatright at Portland’s legendary Audiosiege. We then pressed on deluxe heavyweight 150-gram vinyl,  printed on reverse board jackets, and included an 11in x 22in gatefold insert to bring you a high quality and truly epic record.  

    Click this link to buy AGNOSY “When Daylight Reveals the Torture” Vinyl

    Click this link Stream or Download from our BANDCAMP page

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  • The legendary crust classic is now available once again!

    Authorized and released in cooperation with MISERY, S.D.S., & MCR Japan & Remastered by Jack Butcher at Enormous Door Studio we are beyond proud to make one one the most rare and sought after crust records available  once again.

    Fuck the scavengers charging punks exuberant amounts of cash on ebay and discogs. We worked meticulously with both bands and with Jack at Enormous door to bring you an updated version that kicks major audio ass while maintaining the original authenticity. 

    Released on deluxe 150 gram vinyl. With an 11×11 inner sleeve. Black Paper Jacket. Reverse Board Jacket.

    Feel free to Stream or Download at our Bandcamp page – HERE

    Buy a physical copy of the Vinyl from our webstore – HERE

    Check out Terminal Sound Nuisance for an outstanding review of the original LP. The review gives insight on not only the music but the records long lasting impact on crust music and why it remains so important to this day. – http://terminalsoundnuisance.blogspot.com/2013/06/misery-sds-pain-in-suffering-future.html
    S.D.S.
    MISERY

    Earlier this year we re-issued this legendary LP and sold over 950 copies in just 4 short months. For this second pressing we pressed 490 copies on Krystal Clear & 485 on Grey Vinyl with Black Mist.

    Crystal Clear (Bullet belt no included)
    Grey With Black Mist (Bullet belt no included)
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    UNITED STATES
  • Stench crust the way it was meant to be played!

    The UK crust scene of the 1980’s inspired band after band but no other band has ever reincarnated the sound of that time as well as SWORDWIELDER. Quite simply if you like crust, then this the album you have waited decades for.

    Package includes- 
    LP pressed on deluxe 150-gram vinyl. 
    Reverse board jacket 
    Printed inner sleeve 
    11×17 poster

    Stream album for free or download for a small fee here – https://profaneexistence.bandcamp.com/album/swordwielder-system-overlord-lp

    Buy Vinyl here – https://profaneexistence.bandcamp.com/album/swordwielder-system-overlord-lp

    Review by Craig Hayes from “Your Last Rites”… 
    Swordwielder – System Overlord 
    Heavyweight punk fanatics take note: System Overlord is a fucking triumph. The long-awaited sophomore album from Gothenburg stenchcore band Swordwielder is a brooding behemoth, constructed from the filthiest and heftiest strains of punk and metal. System Overlord shimmers with apocalyptic visions, and it’s overflowing with all the grim atmospherics and intimidating intensity that defines consummate crushing crust.

    Too much hype? No way… And no apologies, either. Swordwielder deal in definitive stenchcore on System Overlord, and much like their full-length debut, 2013’s Grim Visions of Battle, the band’s latest release is a knockout. Swordwielder’s harsh, gruff and dark sound owes a significant debt to old school icons like Amebix, Axegrinder, Deviated Instinct, and Antisect, and they mix and mangle their influences and leave ’em to rot on the battlefield.

    Plenty of hammering rage drives System Overlord tracks like “Violent Revolution,” “Savage Execution” and “Cyborgs,” and thundering epics like “Corrupt Future” and “Northern Lights” exhibit subtler strengths, mixing guttural growls and clean vocals with crashing percussion and dirge-laden riffs. Connoisseurs of corpse-dragging crust will love the brute-force belligerence of “Absolute Fear,” “Nuclear Winter,” and “Second Attack,” which rain down like merciless mortar barrages. As a rule, all of System Overlord‘s mammoth tracks chug and churn with grinding muscle, while reeking of squalor and decay.

    Swordwielder exudes tightly coiled aggression from start to finish here—songs rise from the ashes of desolation, and resounding calls for action and resistance ring loud. If you’re a fan of heavy-hitters like Fatum, War//Plague, Carnage, Zygome, Cancer Spreading or (insert your favorite hefty crust crew here), System Overlord‘s trampling tempo and strapping sound are bound to appeal.

    Crust profane existence swordwielder
  •  We are happy to announce our next new release

    WILT – “Self Titled” 

    WILT combine old school metal and crust in a perfect hybrid that very few others have ever achieved. Prepare for a LP thats equal parts galloping d-beat crust reminiscent of bands like HELLSHOCK, and INSTINCT OF SURVIVAL, meets old school death metal in the vein of BOLT THROWER, MEMORIAM (old) SEPULTURA.

     

    Here is a track from the upcoming LP

    https://profanexistence.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/02-sermon-for-the-bootlickers.wav

     

    “Sermon for the Bootlickers”

    Despite the inculcation of helplessness within each there remains great power. Ill at ease with such makes us ill. Learn to see the hand that feeds for what it is. You’ve been fooled if you think you’ve got no power. Refuse to be reduced to a consumer you’re a human being. Define yourself by more than wealth. Define yourself as a human. You don’t need what you’re being sold. Bend your knee to no authority but your own mind. You have the power to avoid the gilded trap. Avarice is what you’re conditioned for. Break the mold discover what’s really valuable to you. 

    WILT will be on in Europe this July / August will ELECTROZOMBIES From Chile

    Wed, July 12 Hanover / Germany / Confirmed
    Thu, July 13 Bremen  
    Fri, July 14 Mulhem / Germany / Confirmed  
    Sat, July 15 Gent, Belgium / CrustPicnic / Confirmed
    Sun, July 16 Paris / France or Amsterdam / Nederland  
    July 18 North-East France or West Germany 
    July 19 Freiburg / Germany TBC 
    July 20 Winterthur / Switzerland 
    Fri, July 21 Zurich / Switzerland
    Sat, July 22 Biel / Switzerland 
    July 23 Lausanne or Geneva / Switzerland 
    July 24 Geneva / Switzerland or Grenoble france
    July 25 Treviso (or Milano or Bologna or Verona) / Italy
    July 26 Ljubljana Slovenia Confirmed
    July 27 No Sanctuary chilling day
    Fri, July 28 NoSanctuary Confirmed
    Sat, July 29 NoSanctuary Confirmed
    July 30 Ilirska Bistrica/Slovenia or Vienna/Austria or Budapest/Hungary.
    July 31 Wiena / Austrai or Budapest or / Slovakia
    August 1 Brno / Czech Republic.
    August 2 Prague / Czech Republic
    August 3 Finsterwalde / Germany TBC
    Fri, August 4 Leipzig / Germany TBC
    Sat, August 5 Berlin / Germany / confirmed
    August 6 Dresden
    August 7 Wroclaw / Poland
    August 8 Warsaw / Poland
    August 9 Poznan / Poland
    August 10 Szczecin/Poland TBC
    Fri, August 11 Rostock / confirmed
    Sat, August 12 Hamburg TBC
     

    For this in the Seattle or surrounding area you can catch WILT this Saturday April first at Highline Bar with NOOTHGRUSH from Oakland.

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  • STORM OF SEDITION – “Decivilize” LP

    Are you prepared to brave the storm?…

    Brace yourself for one of the most uncompromising hard hitting and politically outspoken records of this era. STORM OF SEDITION are an anti-civilization anarchist crust punk band based out of Victoria BC. Sharing members with the mighty ISKRA you can definitely expect some serious blackened crust, and yes a huge metal influence is prevalent however STORM OF SEDITION are a bit more reminiscent of bands like CONTRAVENE & NAUSEA. “Decivilize” brings a heavy anarcho punk dynamic to the table combined with over the top blackened crust grind thats littered with blistering solo’s, insanely powerful drumbeats, and thought productive lyrics that challenge our current state of human civilization. All in all this is an absolute monster of a release!

    Comes with a 12 page booklet containing lyrics, notes, and song explanations. 

    -CLICK HERE FOR PURCHASE INFORMATION-

     

    STORM OF SEDITION WILL TOURING THE WEST COAST THIS SUMMER!!! 

    Keep you eye’s peeled for a list of tour dates soon!

     

    Listen to the song “Disconnect” here… 

    https://profanexistence.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/storm-of-sedition-decivilize-05-disconnect.mp3

    Living a domesticated existence
    Starves people of meaning in their lives
    Everyone feels the void beneath the surface
    Of everyday activities and routines

    Miserable, exploited, mass populations
    Feeding the industrial systems endless hunger
    Treated like machines, living beings
    Enslaved and kept passive in a technological noose

    We live in these cages
    Made of concrete, glass, and steel 
    A functioning human made hell 
    Complete with natural scenery 

    Yet there is no community
    Deprived of connection with real people 
    Technology perpetuates alienation 
    But promises to connect us

    And fill the void in our lives
    In constant need of escape and distraction 
    From this fucking ugly world
    Technology creeping into our lives 

    Pop culture, pacifying shit
    Endless distractions to curb dissent 
    A society of lonely domesticated beings 
    Attempting social interaction behind a digital screen

    Clinging to the feeling of connectedness 
    Personalized profiles, mass communication tools
    Monitored and funded by pigs 
    Spying on people, on movements
    While corporations profit off government control
    Microsoft, apple, fedbook
    Endless lists of corporations
    Infiltrating our everyday lives
    The NSA, the CSE 
    Databases created from what you share
    Information for incrimination 
    Millions of people on terrorist watch lists
    Technology’s a weapon used against us 

    Its function is to propel their ability
    To efficiently exploit us and the natural world 
    While doing so capitalizing off selling us
    Gadgets to distract us from the lives we live and hate 

    Turn off that shit, enter the real world
    You are not connected
    You are alone staring into a fucking a screen

    Get outside, meet with real people!
    Even if we use these tools 
    We must never forget 

    Technology is a system created by and for those in power
    And it will only exist with 
    Division of labor, exploitation, and death

    Becoming connected through technology
    Is a sick fucking joke

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Damien Inbred’s Column (originally slated for Profane Existence #64)

  • February 14, 2012
  • by PE Admin
  • · Columns
Damien Inbred

Damien InbredWe are currently living in some very interesting times. And this time, I’m not even talking about industrial civilization speeding up our planet’s death (although one of the truck drivers I deal with at work predicted the Rapture for two days from now…guess we’ll see if this issue of PE even comes out, then!).

No, this time I’m talking about the largest mass anti-capitalist movement in modern history. That’s right, the spark that was the Occupy Wall Street Movement has ignited a fire across America, into Canada, and across most of the world. “We are the 99%” is the official slogan of this movement, which is absolutely inspiring. Finally even the most apathetic and apolitical are cluing in that politicians and business leaders are corrupt as hell, and don’t give two shits about the majority of the populace when there’s money to be made. I harbor no delusions that this movement will actually lead to a revolution akin to the Arab Spring uprisings. However, this is a crucial first step in getting the masses on the same page.

Unfortunately, due to a horrible bout of sciatica (really painful condition involving a major nerve in my spine and into my legs), I haven’t been able to do much in the way of occupying anything. All I can do at this point is write (sadly, I can’t afford to take time off work to heal, and so I’m pretty much stuck in a painful state, with the labor-oriented parts of my job suspending the healing process that much more) and help spread the news and offer alternative opinions to the mainstream bullshit express of my local papers (particularly the SUN, which has the audacity to print snide commentary following each letter to the editor, giving the conservative assholes the final word. Journalistic integrity at its finest, truly). Reading the filth in the conservative papers, you can tell that these people are frightened. They know that the movement is growing day by day, despite police oppression and right-wing propaganda. You can tell they’re scared, because they keep harping on certain points, and blowing small things out of proportion. Points such as “these protesters have no single cohesive goal or point”. Or they blow up things like mild infighting, or accuse the movement of being a haven for anti-Semites, 9-11 Truthers, or conspiracy nuts. Of course, these are all laughable points to make, and despite their best efforts it’s not working. (although, in recent days, I’ve come across disturbing news that the Occupy Kansas City groups have actually been debating the merits of the infamous anti-Semitic hoax “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” – for fuck’s sake, these people should not be welcome into our movements, and they should not be allowed to set the tone or agenda. Get them out. NOW.)

One thing I’ve noticed since the protests started, is that (as usual), the mainstream “left” is trying their hardest to co-opt the movement and derail it; twist it to fit their own devious ends. Whether it’s the fucking Democrats in the States, or the fucking Liberal party up here in Canada, or the various mainstream lobbyist groups like MoveOn-dot-org, the capitalists on the left are trying their damnedest to take the real anger and the real issues involved and fizzle them down to talking points and reformist garbage. Let’s not forget that it was President Obama who upheld the Bush tax cuts last year, and bailed out the scumsucking parasites on Wall Street (not to mention kept Gitmo open, deported scores more so-called “illegal immigrants” than Bush did, killed thousands of innocents in unmanned drone attacks in the Middle East… need I continue?). No, the Tea Party is not our friend, but you know what – NEITHER ARE THE DEMOCRATS. I’m so sick of the “enemy of our enemy is our friend” mentality that derails and destroys any popular uprising in North America. So many people are willing to make concessions instead of actually fighting for their convictions or for the greater good. This is what happens when the movements are made up of highly-privileged, well-educated elites who would rather die than give up their middle-class lives…while still pretending to care about the underprivileged around them.

Another thing that has never been remotely touched on in the mainstream (or even in the liberal) press are some of the greater crimes that Wall Street (and global capital in general) is guilty of here. Yes, I realize that the erosion of the middle class here in North America is a very real problem, and I realize that many families of all walks of life are being made to suffer here while CEOs get huge bonuses and get to keep living comfortably. This is a huge crime against the majority of people here in the Western world. But I’d also like to remind everyone that this is only the tip of the iceberg. In the pursuit of wealth and power, the capitalists have succeeded in DESTROYING OUR PLANET. I’m not speaking in the abstract here – entire ecosystems here at home and across the world have been brought to the brink of destruction. Entire populations of indigenous people have been virtually wiped out, or forced into cheap labor for the corporations. Species of animals and plants have been forever wiped out. All in the name of profit. I wish this was talked about more in the Occupy movement, but as we still live in one of the most speciesist cultures on earth, it will be a long time coming… Let’s be clear here – from the erosion of the middle class, to the expansion of a war-based economy, to the exploitation and genocide of indigenous cultures, to the wiping out of ecosystems… ALL OF THESE ISSUES ARE CONNECTED. Not only are they connected, but they are all part of the same disease. As LOST WORLD once said, Capitalism is the Disease.

One more thing I want to say (and I’m sorry for the not-quite cohesive format of this column – there’s just too much to say, and too much coffee in my house), is can we (as in the whole movement, not the anarchists – I’m sure we’re all on the same page about this) please get over the whole fetishism of pacifist bullshit? Can we please stop collaborating with the police? The cops may be “part of the 99%” but to go back to elementary anti-capitalism here – THEY SERVE AND PROTECT THE 1%. That is their function. And as for pacifism, I will concede that it has its place. So does property destruction. So do many tactics, both violent and non. Instead of encouraging the Occupy Movement to be a purely “non-violent” movement (what about when the police attack, much like they did in Oakland in late October?!), why don’t we instead encourage a diversity of tactics? I’m not encouraging everyone to run wild in the streets, beating up every bank executive you see. I’m encouraging…well… a diversity of tactics! Duh. I’m encouraging people of the privileged pacifist mindset to refrain from ratting “troublemakers” (puke) to the cops! I’m encouraging everyone to work together so that everyone’s voice is heard, and everyone’s ideas are considered! If it means that the “peaceful” contingent hold one rally while the Black Bloc-ers go off and do their own thing, so be it. However, we must all work together and support each other (within reason – there is still no fucking room in this movement for fascist infiltrators, overt or covert: keep an eye out for them and “professional left/right” leeches, official or otherwise), otherwise this global movement is doomed to failure. I speak of anti-pacifism and pro-militancy, but I’m also not saying that you should be a fucking idiot. We need to use our heads, lest they be crushed under the bootheels of the capitalist forces – this is just a beginning.

ENDNOTES:
– I really hope I don’t come across as “holier than thou” in this. These are just things I’ve been thinking a lot about while in my less-than-able state. I know I’ve got my own contradictions internalized, and I also know that as much as I preach against pacifism, I’m also not strong enough (mentally or physically) to go out and do militant actions myself. I just want all options open, and I hate seeing the fucking mainstream pacifists sell out the more militant people to the cops. I also hate the concept of protest marshals, while we’re on the subject…
– By the time this gets printed, it will be winter time, and who knows where the movement will be. For updates, opinions, and all sorts of good stuff, check out http://news.infoshop.org
– Keep an eye out for me in spring of next year – I just may be coming through your neck of the woods on my 2-month bus trip through the States and Canada. I’ll be close to broke, so if you have a place for me to crash, some spare food and/or beer, I’ll be most grateful. Touring bands, if you need a roadie or merch dude, I’m on the way. Just sayin’.
– Bomb The Stampede Fest is still in the planning stages. It is going to be happening in July of next year, and it will be awesome. If you want to be a part, please get in touch!
– Check it – damien.inbred (AT) gmail.com or doomedsocietyradio (AT) gmail.com
– Older columns (including my column in issue 62 that got cut off halfway through) can be found at http://pissinmatch.blogspot.com
– I was going to supply a couple of interviews for this issue – one with MISERY and one with Andrew of my hometown’s former DIY crust-punk heroes CHUPACABRA, but sadly time constraints got in the way. Look for them in the next issue!

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