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  • The long awaited debut LP from NYC’s FLOWER “Hardly A Dream” is finally set to arrive.

    FLOWER’s tedious approach to writing/creating/drawing their debut LP was carefully thought out and the result is a monumental anarcho punk /crust record. 

    “Hardly A Dream” Takes us on a bleak journey through the dark side of society. As soon as you drop the needle a dark atmosphere is immediately created with a slow intro featuring arpeggio guitar work that builds into pummeling d-beat crust. The albums vocals then leave you with a feeling of being crushed by the ever-present weight of living through our modern world of late stage capitalism that was built on the falsehoods of the so called American dream, religious hypocrisy’s, nationalism, and the greed of humankind. 

    FLOWER take many cues from predecessors and are most often (and rightfully so) compared to NAUSEA but they also take a heavy influence from ANTISECT, SACRILEGE & other greats. The artwork has a very RUDIMENTARY PENI feel and the record comes with an amazing 24.5 X 34.75 CRASS style poster jacket. All art work was meticulously hand drawn and overseen by the guitarist Willow in true DIY style and spirit. Willow was also cool enough to draw up a special shirt for the record release featuring an alternative PROFANE EXISTENCE backprint!

    CLICK HERE TO PRE ORDER LP

    CLICK HERE TO PRE ORDER LP WITH SHIRT

    CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW THE ALBUM IN ITS ENTIRETY AT THE PROFANE EXISTENCE BANDCAMP

    FLOWER will be on tour from January 2nd to the 13th

    2nd New Brunswick

    3rd Asheville

    4th Greenville

    5th Birmingham

    6th New Orleans

    7th Hattiesburg

    9th Gainesville

    10th Atlanta

    11th Durham

    12th Richmond

    13th Philadelphia 

    PO BOX 7903 PITTSBURGH PA 15216

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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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  • 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.

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  •  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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Sean Fitzgerald – Featured Artist

  • February 14, 2012
  • by PE Admin
  • · Interviews
Sean Fitzgerald

Sean Fitzgerald

Sean Fitzgerald is a freelance artist/illustrator and animator. His work is on t-shirts, record covers, badges, DVD’s, on the net and anywhere punks reside. Sean has been a longtime contributor to Profane Existence, hosting Scairt Radio through our podcast site (now on hold) and was the force behind Protestzine from 1989 through 2009. He’s a fine artist, and a helluva fellow. Without further ado, here’s Sean…

Sean FitzgeraldPE: How long have you been creating?

SF: I started doing banners and helping out zines when I was around 16 And am officially a middle aged man in 2 months when I hit 40.

PE: What influences your artwork? Which artists have influenced you the most?

SF: Since I was a teenager it has always been album and tattoo designs. All the punk usuals Gee Vaucher, Giger, Pushead and as the years went on Mid, Stiv, Hush, Paul Booth, Xed Lehead and a zillion other wee blogs and friends work. I have also always had a love for Celtic illumination, from people like George Bain and Jim Fitzpatrick.

PE: Your work looks like it starts with traditional mediums and then you go off with computers to take it a step further, what medium do you prefer to work in? And do you feel like computers have added more to your creative process?

SRiistetytF: I have always loved using black felt tip pens. And for years any art I did for people I never bothered in pencil sketching it out, but just drew in any inky black pen I could find. But then in about 1999 discovered photoshop and started working full time as a graphic designer. So everything became all Adobe photoshop and Illustrator. Which was great at first, but I think as most people will agree became just over kill. I think a lot of people are finding the balance now and using computers to enhance or clean up drawings rather than photoshop cut, paste and smudge.
After using computers for designing for so long in design it can be very hard to break free from it. As you know, that you could copy a section or line in a piece a lot quicker with it. These days I try and not use it so much, but use it to break up a drawing. So I could draw a character, then draw another piece separately, so if a band want something changed, it’s far easier then to change it afterwards.

PE: Did you find it a difficult transition do move to digital maniputaion? Were you at all hesitant to embrace technology?

WeFilth Fest Flyerll when I was first in school we had one of those computers which had a scroll of punched paper always sticking out of it. So it always looked like a crock of shite to me. So it wasn’t until I was hitting 30 that I first went near a computer. I was really captured by what people like Mid was doing with it. So I started messing about with it.

PE: Have you received any formal arts training or are you self taught?

SF: The school I went to growing up didn’t even have an art class. But I always wanted to do art since I was knee high. So my portfolio when applying for art college was all badly drawn pencil sketches of punks and ruins. But I got into college doing Fine Art. But became completely disillusioned with it, as I found there was so much bullshit involved. Like we had a group exhibition of work and this Dublin business man contacted me about buying a piece I did. So I told the course tutor and he says that’s fantastic. That this business man spots talent, buys the picture by someone he thinks could have some future in art. So what he does is buys it, locks it away and if you become known, he sells it. I thought this was utter bollocks so didn’t sell it to him, looks like he saved a copper there though 🙂 There was lots of other stuff that I didn’t like about the course structure. So in the end I didn’t finish and went off and became a new age traveller for a bit, way more fun.

Extreme Noise TerrorThen after a while of too much boozing I started wood carving, then this led me onto traditional currach boat building. Then I got the creative bug again so went off to college to do classical animation then multimedia. All great but last year after working as a Graphic Designer for over ten years, I reassessed my life and how I was living it. It becomes a ‘job’ and can loose it’s self worth. So now I’m doing traditional Irish dry stack stone masonry. Which involves no machines or land polluting cement. All hammer and chisel, but I still love drawing for stuff that interests me.

PE: Aside from doing artwork, you also do a magazine and a podcast. How did these pursuits come about and what other projects are you involved in?

Avskum Meinhoff Mini TourSF: Well I started a zine called ‘Protest’ with a friend in 1989, which we used to send to the UK to get printed for fuck all by a punk guy called ‘Bobprint’. It was normally a 300 print run, but after many years of laziness in getting at least two issues out a year called it a day in around 1996. Started it again as an online zine in around 2000 and eventually print again. But after a while I just didn’t have the money for printing so called it a day.

How the podcast idea came up was from listening to horror podcasts like Rue Morgue Radio. Where I thought wouldn’t it be great to have a team of people doing the same idea expect playing crusty anarcho punk. Mentioned it to Dan PE, who said he had the idea also but of having a 24 hour online punkcast type thing. So it went from there in 2009, with the first interview being with Agrimonia. But to be honest, bands aren’t that keen of talking on a radio show. Since it’s live as such it’s not the same as spending time thinking over a question. But I also should use this as a good chance to say thanks to PE for leaving me get on with it and allowing me play or interview whoever I want.

Raw NoiseBesides the podcast I write for CVLT Nation (online underground music blog) and trying to sing in a black metal band.

PE: Your work is pretty intricate and intense, no happy, flower bunnies permeating your creations. Where does the imagery come from?

SF: Well I suppose it’s the music and lyric imagery. I think it goes hand and hand with dark imagery, even though some people have proved otherwise. But I think if your listening to a heavier style of music, it needs apocalyptic looking imagery, as it fits the mood.

PE: Who have you done record covers for?

Coitus Fucked OverSF: Extreme Noise Terror, Phobia, Coldwar, Raw Noise, Abaddon Incarnate, Subhumans, Riistetyt, Coitus, Distrust, Death Dealers, Opposition Party and loads more. A lot of folk have different ideas for their bands album. Like I dealt with Phil Vane (RIP) for all the Extreme Noise Terror, Raw Noise and Death Dealers stuff. He would stay on the phone for at least two hours saying, check out such a documentary and list off a million ideas and we’d talk over what would work, which was great.  Then completely different would be Skinny (RIP) from Coitus and Coldwar would say stuff like, we are all obsessed with jack boots, tanks and Motorhead, go for it. The stuff I enjoy doing most these days is pen and ink, but still do digital and paintings depending what suits.

PE: Are you creating outside of the punk milieu? What other project are you doing and what other kinds of art are you into?

Wolfbeast DestoyerSF: The biggest project I’m doing at the moment is an illustrated mythological tale of Balor the God of Chaos and Death. The book will be called “Balor of The Evil Eye”. I’ve retraced all the areas where it’s said the events in the story have taken place. Some which have historical battle / place reference. It’s mainly all about the real Irish Celtic history / belief system before it was destroyed and bastardized by Christian’s. They stole ancient places of healing and turned them into holy wells and churches. Turned some of the stories into parables.

The general gist of the story is of Balor and his tribe the Fomorians and their battle / life with the Tuatha Dé Danann. It’s mainly a battle against the civilized world, fertility rites and a primal chaos values. I have a research blog with photographs, references and sketches. (http://baloroftheevileye.tumblr.com) Alex from Distroy Records who has a great interest in Celtic mythology has expressed an interest in printing it, which is great, but nothing is set in stone as yet. But it’ll be a long time off before I’m finished. As there’s so much research and drawing involved.

Childrens ArtworkPE: You live in “the middle of nowhere” but is there a strong arts/ music scene in the city you live in? Or was there one where you grew up?

SF: I’m originally from a small city called Cork in the south of the country, where there would be a lot going on and a decent punk scene. But after living in cities for a long time. I called it a day and headed off to the northern part of Ireland to a very remote area which would have a lot of landscape painters as we’re surrounded by islands, ocean and mountains. There is a small town an hours drive away that has the odd punk gig which is great to meet up with like minded folk.

Where I live is at the end of a mountain, a large wide open barren landscape and not many houses. But about six months ago Night of the Living Deadwhile volunteering with a local youth club I bumped into a guy who lives just down the road from me. We got talking and turns out he was in a well known German punk band Pink Flamingos, they had a split with Man Is The Bastard. Strange you think your away from it all and there’s always a punk around the corner. Of  course we now exchange lots of punk talk!

PE: Have you ever done any formal exhibitions of your artwork, as in art shows or such? Do you feel like punk spaces should be more open to this sort of show?

SF: I had a few group things when I was in college. There are community punk spaces in Ireland and a great underground record shop in Dublin called ‘Into The Void’ that shows artworks. I think it’s a way better place, as it keeps it out of the corporate bollocks.

PE: What are some projecMassmordts that are in the works?

SF: At the moment I’m working on “Balor of The Evil Eye”, a cover for Back2Front Records reissue of Karma Sutra – Daydreams of a Production Line Worker, a cover for Warzone Collective Records release of Steve Ignornant’s live album, Vahrzaw and a logo for Deathbiter Cassettes.

PE: What do you do when you’re not creating or generally being all punk rock/metal?

SF: Mountain/hill hiking, walking through the woods with my wife and kids, organic vegetable growing, fixing up a mobile home, converting an old refrigerated lorry container into a workshop and trying to speak Irish!

PE: Anything else you would like to add?  How can you be contacted?

It’s half six in the morning here, so I am plan to get an hour and a half sleep. Then go off and build a dry stone wall. I have a art blog here http://sfitzgerald-art.tumblr.com  and can be reached by email here: protestzine at yahoo.com. Thanks so much again Jeremy mate for the interview.

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  1. Ryan February 14, 2012 · Reply

    This guy is a legend! And loved by many!

  2. Lilia Weber March 20, 2012 · Reply

    I love his artwork!

  3. xartpunkartx May 24, 2012 · Reply

    stunning artwork !

  4. B.Rad September 14, 2012 · Reply

    Inspiring.

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