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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.

    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

    PROFANE EXISTENCE RECORDS – PO BOX 647 – HUNTINGTON WV – 25711 – UNITED STATES

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Bitty’s Column (originally slated for PE #64)

  • February 15, 2012
  • by PE Admin
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Bitty

BittyThe “Dudes” of Helltown

(Part I of III)

The town I grew up in is Manitowoc, WI, a.k.a. Helltown. Manitowoc had an amazing punk scene from the early 80’s all the way to the late 90’s. In the mid-eighties, I got into punk through skateboarding. Back then those two things went hand in hand. However, in the late 80’s another scene was about to integrate into the punk scene. It was when the metal scene went punk and brought in some of the most out of control, criminally insane, and violent people I had ever met.

I remember how the scene started to change. My buddy Richie and I were walking down the hall at school when another guy, one of the “Dudes”, (“dude” is what we called a metalhead that turned punk) came up to us and said:

“Hey what are you fuckers doing tonight?”

“Um, skating.” I replied.

“You guys wanna go to a party?”

Richie and I looked at each other, then at him and replied. “Fuck yeah, Dude.”

I walk into the Dude party and the first guy I see in the kitchen is a guy called KK. He had been locked up for most of his school years; I believe out of six years of school, I had seen him all of two weeks. The story goes that at the age of twelve, he found a shotgun in his mom’s closet, loaded it, and walked across the street to a gas station. Not wearing a mask, he proceeded to commit a strong armed robbery. He wasn’t after money, just all the booze and candy that they can fit into a bag. Without any regard for getting caught, the unmasked KK walked right back across the street to his house in full view of all the workers. To my knowledge it ended with a four hour standoff with police, who set off flash grenades and stormed the house only to find him passed out with the shotgun and booze laying next to him. As far as I know, this landed him in juvenile hall for the first time.

A different time KK spraypainted a ton of houses in one night and did about $60,000 worth of damage. I remember the art was amazing. Big pics of MDC art and all sorts of skulls on the sides of random people’s houses. The best part about it is that he signed his initials… so without any effort the cops were able to figure out who did it. This landed his ass back in jail. Let me tell one more short story about KK, and then we will go back to our regularly scheduled column…

A little later in life, KK decides to go out to eat at Ponderosa. Keep in mind he is out on parole and with his girlfriend. As he enters a restaurant, he is wearing a flight jacket with no shirt underneath. The hostess says that she can’t serve him because he’s not wearing a shirt. He zips up his jacket and demands to be served. The hostess says she doesn’t want to get in trouble, and asks him to please just put a shirt on, and she’d have no problem seating them. His answer “You’re gonna seat us now bitch or I’m going to stab you in the fucking face.” She tells him to leave or she will call the police. He reaches over the counter and grabs some rolled up silver wear that has a steak knife and fork, and hammers her in the face with it, stabbing her eight times. He flips out, holding customers at bay, until the cops came and took him away to prison once again for the millionth time. To put it lightly, this guy is one scary and severely fucked up individual. The stories on this dude’s crime sprees are limitless. Also to my knowledge he has more felony battery charges himself, than most of the biker gangs from our city.

Now back to the original story… I go to the party, and of course the first person I see is none other than KK (just my luck). Ironically, he looked kind of like Charles Manson at the time. Our introduction went like this:

“Who are you?” He said, looking me up and down.

“Um, I’m Bitty, nice to meet you dude.”

“I’m KK; we’re going to play a game, alright?”

“What game?” I asked.

“Punch, now punch me.” He demanded.

“No thanks dude, sounds like a game I might get hurt playing.” I said. (I was all of 105 pounds at the time)

“It’s easy.” KK said “You hit me as hard as you can, then I hit you.”

As I’m trying to tell him this is a bad idea and I don’t want to do it he says “Ok, I’ll go first” and punches me super hard in the breastbone. I flew back into the other room and felt like my ribs broke. I landed by one of my friends, Pete, who is about the toughest guy I know.

“Who the fuck did that?” Pete yelled.

KK, with a proud smile yelled back, “I did”.

Pete looked at KK asking him what his problem is and why he’s messing with me. KK responded, “I’ll do whatever the fuck I want.” Pete then ran into the kitchen, grabbed KK, picking him up off the ground by the throat, punched him and then smashed KK’s head through the wall. After Pete knocked KK senseless he walked back into the room I was in, picked me up and waited until I caught my breath and said “He won’t fuck with you again.”

As the party proceeded, some of the bigger guys started to pin some people down and force them to drink more beer then they can handle. I was one of these people. They grabbed me, held me down and were forcing beer down my throat. I couldn’t swallow the amounts that they were trying to pour so it was going on all over my face and I couldn’t breathe, so I have a pretty good idea of what it feels like to get waterboarded. As I was choking and gagging another bad ass friend of mine, Reno, came over, ripped the beer out of one of their hands and shoved the guys off of me. He told the entire room that if anyone else fucked with me that night, he was going to kick all their asses. Looking back at all this years later, it sure was nice to have friends like Pete and Reno.

….and that was my introduction to the Dudes.

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Decay After Death

Up next: killer band watch…

Decay After Death is an amazing band out of the Chicago area that just blew me away. They are like a hybrid of Motorhead, old English crusty punk, and a ton of reverb. There is not a weak link among them. The bass player shreds and sings in this three piece. The bass lines are solid and all over the fret board…this dude knows his scales. The guitar player also sings and his axe has great tone. Every lead is in the right spot and there is just enough of everything without overdoing it. The drummer has solid chops and pulled it all in together. Things like this are what most bands are missing. I have had their demo in my cd player in my van and it hasn’t left there for about two months now. Fuckin…. killer.

On a lighter note…

Iceland Waterfall
Waterfall in Iceland

Ela (bass player in Wartorn and Dresden and my life partner) and I went to ICELAND in August and it was off the hook. I haven’t taken a vacation in about 10 years, so it was about time. As we landed, the Iron Maiden plane was just taking off… Bruce Dickinson and I never to seem to be on the same page with our schedules, but what’s a person to do. I’ve got to be honest, we were a little bummed since we would have liked to see Iron Maiden live again. Anyway, I would say being in Iceland is a lot like being on another planet.

We saw a giant humpback whale just 10 feet away from the boat we were in do a huge jump . I have never been next to such a giant animal. I also got to stand in the mouth of a volcano, saw water geysers, hot springs and a ton of other amazing things that all had to do with nature. We went to a glacier lagoon one of the days and everything was so blue it almost didn’t even seem real. Some of the glaciers were breaking apart and falling in the lagoon and

Shapechanger
Shapechanger at the Saga Museum

it was extremely loud and epic to listen and watch. They had waterfalls there that looked like something out of a fantasy film. We also went to a couple of saga museums which I really enjoyed. It was crazy to even see the geothermal power plants that they had there. And I got to stand on two different tectonic plates at the same time…now where else can you do all of this in one week? If you ever have the chance to go to ICELAND do not miss out. I would give it 3 three thumbs up if I had a third one.

One of the bands I play in, WARTORN, is back at it, and we are writing an LP at this time. We will be going on a west coast tour next summer with RESIST… I can’t wait. We will also be having a discography come out on Profane Existence. Marald is currently working on the art for both. Marald was always one of my favorite artists. I remember holding the State of Fear LP and looking at the artwork for a long period of time studying it and thinking it was breathtaking.

Marald
Marald & Bitty

The other band I am a part of, DRESDEN, just finished up a 7 inch titled “Extinguish the Cross” and I’m totally happy with how it turned out. We recorded with Tom from IN DEFENCE and Brad of FROM ASHES RISE did the audio mastering, I’m extremely happy with the recording. The art, which was done by HUSH, is amazing and spot on. Profane will be putting it out and it should be out by February. Now DRESDEN is going to get all the music done and ready for our split LP that we are doing with HELLBASTARD. Until next time see you on the road.

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  1. clark huske March 9, 2012 · Reply

    the good old days in manty. i remember when i first met KK.

  2. Tommy no March 10, 2012 · Reply

    Wow! Profane will give anyone a column these days. Ha ha ha. Bitty, you forgot to tell them about KK’s three rules to a party!

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