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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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Apathy in the U.K.

  • February 17, 2012
  • by stinkbot
  • · Features · PE Web Zine · Uncategorized

Pony lived through the punk vs. skin brawls in Minneapolis in the late eighties. Punks and skins stood up together against fascist groups and outright nazis, and booted them out of our town. Ya’d think that punks would always stand against racism and racist behavior, but…well, read on.

Apathy in the UK

the rise of the fascist movement within the UK punk scene and the apathy of the punks to do anything about it.

   No, the title is not a not mistake, it seems to be the coming reality around England these days. The last few years at ‘Rebellion’, the biggest UK punk fest, has really made me wake up. I have never seen so many people walking around with “screwdriver” shirts and no one ever says a word about it.

Year after year there seems to be more and more of these nazi’s showing up. They feel accepted just because they go unchallenged.

Not too long ago at a Cockney Rejects gig a young lad came up to a group of us outside, on his shirt was a swastika and German eagle. When it was noticed by the group he was told that in no way was he welcome to stay at the gig. He quickly left only to return about an hour later, after a change of shirt and came over to apologize. He said he was confused as he really didn’t think he would offend us with that T-shirt. What could have ever given him the idea that it would be accepted????

Later that same night after the Rejects had finished their set an explosion of fighting happened. There were nazi’s among us that we were not aware of. They had spotted a young SHARP Skin in the crowd with an Oppressed patch on his jacket. They attacked him saying he had “No right to wear the Skinhead look while having that ‘bands’ patch on his coat”  The punks and sharp skins jumped straight in and suddenly the whole place had erupted!

Eventually the bouncers waded in and grabbed the nazi boneheads and threw them out of the venue. And yes they are boneheads, not skinheads! Real skinheads know the roots of their scene come from the Jamaican culture and Reggae music.

I wandered outside after making certain that no one was hurt, and besides a few scratches everyone was fine; just pissed off that they(nazi skins) had been at the gig all night and had attacked a friend. Out front I found all the boneheads still there and arguing with another group of punks. One guy kept offering to go them around the corner and settle it but they refused saying that if they went away from where the bouncers were that 20 of his friends would jump them. They were obviously scared at this point, even too scared to leave the safety of the bouncers standing at the door.

When they finally started to move off down the street of course they were followed and a second fight started nearly a block away. One of them, whom I had seen inside punching a punk in the head, held his hands up straight away professing that he did not want to fight, or want any further trouble, and that he was injured (he did have a brace on his hand, even though that didn’t stop him inside). They were not even out numbered, they just didn’t know that most of the punks at the gig were too drunk or didn’t want to be involved because they are apolitical. The main tough guy nazi did get a kicking. Then they managed to run back up the street and get behind some bouncers at a different club. This time though it was a big joke, as the bouncers the nazi, white power boneheads ran to for help were Black and Asian men. Who told us that they would love nothing more than to hand them over, but they would loose their jobs if they did. The nazi’s were then taunted till the police got there, and then got arrested. The bouncers at both clubs came on our side and said all the trouble was from them.

We have since been told that one of them actually had his jaw broken that night, and is trying to get some of his right-wing mates to find the guys that did it. It also turns out that he used to be the security for screwdriver.

That night really brought me back to the 80’s while I was back in Minneapolis chasing nazi wankers through the streets. The thing is, back then we actually pushed them right out of our scene and made it very clear that they were not welcome at any of our gigs ever. I have been told it was the same over here in the 80’s with these boneheads trying to wreck the punk scene, and they did fight them off. I have also been told they tried to rise again in the 90’s (I didn’t move here till 98) and again they were sent packing.

But something seems to have happened, we all got tired of hearing politics at every gig and bands were told over and over to ‘stop preaching to the converted’. And somewhere along the line the message of Anti-racism just disappeared. Well guess what punk without politics is? IT’S JUST BLOODY POP!

And how political is being anti-racist? Seems like more of a moral issue than a political one any ways. To me it seems like every time the economic state of things takes a dip, these nazi morons seem to try to creep back onto our scene, do they really think we are stupid enough to blame immigrants, or anyone else besides the banks and governments for the hard times we are all in, in these days of recession??? Do we really have to relive the ’80s all over again?

Before the Cockney Rejects gig happened several gigs in my area have had small groups of boneheads showing up. Each time a small group of older punks have explained that they are not wanted or welcome and were shown the door. It has never been the same people and their groups are generally between 4-8. I was talking to one of the younger punks after one group was shown the way out and he said he didn’t think it was right that we were making any one leave a gig. He stated his point of view that as a friend of the bar’s owner they were spending money on drinks and so they were helping the scene by bringing more cash in so more gigs could be put on. And as he and many of the others are a-political he didn’t see any reason why they should not just be left alone so they can can have fun too. (Really?? REALLY???)

Of course after the Rejects gig some of the younger ones have realized that if these small groups are not told they are not welcome then they will keep coming and will start meeting up and suddenly it isn’t just one small handful of nazi thugs, but there will be more than we can handle. And it is a numbers game, gangs of boneheads only want to fight when they are in higher numbers than those who they are attacking.

I along with some of the other more outspoken punks are also being called fascist, because we will not ignore what people say and do, and will not stay friends with racists.

I will not say I am sorry for standing up for what I believe in, and I will not be bullied into backing down from the argument. They say I am against free speech as I don’t believe nazi’s deserve a platform, my answer is no I am not against free speech, but I do see a difference between free speech and hate speech! To have free speech we also need to have the morals to be responsible enough to stand up against hate speech.

I do have to say it is not all doom and gloom here though. Some people do see what is going on and are taking a stand. We are starting to hear the anti-racist sermon being chanted by a few bands at gigs between songs, and how fascist are not welcome at the gigs. Gigs also are being done under the heading of  Love Music Hate Racism, Punks and Skins against Racism ect.

A new group has formed on facebook called ‘Get off the Fence’ that is naming and shaming bands that are trying to say “no we are apolitical” just so they can reap the rewards of playing for the fash and then playing for the anti the week after. The problem comes from these sorts of bands playing for white power crowds then playing Anti-fash gigs as they are pulling the nazi boneheads over to our shows. ‘GOTF’ is also confronting venues that are playing both sides of the fence as well by putting on both nazi and anti gigs. People running the venues are just being told to pick a side, if you don’t then promoters and bands will refuse to continue using  them to book gigs. At this point they can’t have their cake, and eat it too!

We are now planning an annual gig under the banner of ‘Get off the Fence’ for bands to come and put the message back out. The first one is planned to be late April/ early May in Derby, every year after that it will be put on in a new city. All profits are going towards Anti-Racist charities.

A CD is also in the works, with a lot of bands coming forward with tracks they would like to donate, ‘GotF’ t-shirts and badges will be done soon, and again all profits will go straight towards Anti-racist causes. The best part though is the amount of bands that are coming forward to stand up and be counted and making sure the message is loud and clear!

All of this was started by a few punks that have had enough of watching their scene threatened while no one else will do any thing. In the short time the group has been together, several pubs have now declared they will no longer allow racist bands to play at their gigs. Many bands have come forward as ‘non-political’ but will speak out against racism, and will no longer be sharing a stage with bands whose members have connections to racist organisations. Two of the biggest UK Oi bands on the scene have recently dropped support bands from their bills after racist affiliation has been pointed out to them.

It just shows that we don’t have to sit back and watch our scene get destroyed, there is something that each and every one of us can do. We are the scene and if we don’t stand up for it who will?

Pony McWreckthegaff

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