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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!

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    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 

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  • Finally, the third LP from AGNOSY has arrived! 

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    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.  

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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.

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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

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    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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Josh Mosh Column originally for PE 64

  • March 22, 2012
  • by stinkbot
  • · Columns · PE Web Zine

Racism is defined as hatred and intolerance of another race.  Seems pretty simple to identify and understand when it’s the confederate flag waving, swastika tattoo wearing nut-job spewing hate.  I think we would all agree that that person is a racist.  Fill in the blank…”I hate all ______ people”.

What is classism?  Is it as simple as a discriminatory attitude or hatred based on a social class?  How many of us are guilty of that to some degree?… “Eat the Rich”, “Burn the Rich”.  The evil, rich, white man keeping his boot on the throats of the rest of us, we hate him.  I hate rich people.

What is bigotry?  That word isn’t as popular but certainly has it’s applications…

“I hate Christians”.  That gets tossed around a lot.  Do you really?  You hate your Grandma?  Maybe you do, I dunno…My Grandma was way cool, but hopefully you starting to get my point.

Hate is a strong word, “to feel hostility toward”.  When applied with broad strokes that can get the hater into quite a pickle.  Hate is a very dualistic concept, it illustrates a right and a wrong, deals in generalities or stereotypes on one hand while defining a clear line on the other that eliminates anything on the other side of that line leaving no room for conversation or debate.

My friend Mike and I swap stories all the time.  We both have cool party stories of doing stupid shit while we were buttered.  We both had drinking problems when we were younger and no longer drink so we like to reminisce about some of the wilder times we had.   I just flat out quit drinking one day, it wasn’t as easy for Mike, he went to AA and did the whole 12 step program.  I think there had already been some religion in his family so it was probably easy for him to embrace some the Christian ideals of AA.  In fact it was so easy that it became his bag completely, he went to seminary and took his theology classes and did whatever else it takes and is now a preacher!  No shit.  The dude drives out to some small town on the plains every weekend and preaches.  He’s my friend and I don’t hate him.

Jim’s father was an alcoholic and used to beat him.  He too found comfort in religion and is a deacon at a local church known for being pretty radical and accepting.  He has a hard time with most hardline Christian conservatives (he has the same issues with them that most of us do) but he doesn’t hate them and I don’t hate Jim.  He is one of the most open and loving people I know, he has done some amazing things for people and expects nothing in return other than that Jesus takes care of him when he dies.  I can’t say I buy into that (and I am struggling to hold back laughter even as I typed that), but just because I don’t agree doesn’t mean I hate him.

I used to work with this girl (this got messy so I am going to change the name), lets call her Maggy.  Maggy and I got along great.   I was/am a punk rocker dude struggling to make sense of the semi-corporate environment I work in.   Don’t get me wrong, the company is pretty laid back and welcoming of all types of people.  I’ve been there for over 11 years now…Anyway Denise and I bonded because of who we were, I being very open and non-judgmental and she…Well Maggy was very open about her being a lesbian .  She would confide in me some very intimate details of her life and relationships, again I suppose the reason she felt so comfortable with me was that she knew I didn’t give a shit and that I saw her as person not as whatever label society pinned on her.  I always tried to offer the best advice I could and often went to her for help as well.

Maggy got fired one day and did not go away quietly.  She went after the company for discrimination claiming the company was racist and homophobic.   She was let go for performance issues and she and I had discussed some of the work related issues that she was having prior to her being let go.  I couldn’t believe it when she made those accusations and played that card, as her claims had nothing to do with why she was let go and were untrue, but she went there with it.  And the company paid…I don’t know how much they paid, but they gave her money to be quiet and go away.   Wow.

Again I’m going to change names here, but anyway…You would probably never find a more unlikely trio of dudes; but Mack, Andy and I became pretty good friends.  Andy was a former Mormon, was the son of a very prominent well-to-do lawyer, he was a coke-snorting car salesman in the 80’s, a former high-end divorce lawyer, Native American, a father of three, in his mid 50’s and is now very Buddhist.  Mack, well he was about my age, but was an on again off again heavy drug user, an ex-gang banger (a Crip), Islamic, and African American.  Me, well I used to be a booze bag, am a punk rocking metal-head, anarcho, conspiracy loving nutcase with two kids and am Caucasian.

We’d get together at least once a week to talk about our lives, relationships and to help each other stay on course. Many of our conversations would entertain some level of spirituality without religion more in a sense that we were studying and trying to understand how we were connected to each other and to all other living beings.  In some ways Buddhism was the vehicle that we used as a reference to help guide many of these conversations.  Mack was impressed enough with our personal and spiritual journeys that, to the dismay of his wife, he denounced his Islamic faith (he was Islamic and wasn’t a terrorist!).   The three of us became very tight and even started going to yoga together.  Once you looked passed the stereotypes that been tagged to us it was amazing how much the three of us had in common.  We were just people sharing our love for each other and letting go of hate…

Since we worked together we able to share some unique experiences and the subject of interviewing new-hire candidates and how our own prejudices played into it came up a few times.  What we found out was we were not prejudice to other ethnic or social backgrounds we were prejudice to our own!  For instance, Mack was harder on young black males and would really put them through the ringer where I was harder on white guys with tattoos and piercings.  Even Andy hammered the older candidates.  With the new-hire candidates that reflected the stereotypes of each other, we found ourselves being easier on them.  Mack and Andy were softer on white tattooed guys and I was more easy-going on black guys and the older folks.   I am sure there is some study to be done here and once we discovered that we were guilty of this, we spent hours trying to examine the reasons we acted this way with what remained of our college psychology courses. And it just boiled down to we didn’t know what the fuck we were talking about!

Here is a quick anecdote about subtle racism in action.  Mike (the preacher guy mentioned above), Steve and I were at lunch one day.  We got the check and all handed over our debit cards to have them split the bill.  The waiter took each of our cards but it was only Steve whose ID he asked for.  That might not be a big deal until you understand that Mike’s card said “see ID” on the back, my card didn’t say anything (I never signed it!), and it was Steve’s card that was signed and in order.  Steve is black.

The guy that started the company I work for is probably pretty damn close to being a 1%er.  He is a millionaire and has money coming out of his ears.  He gave a tattooed punk rock guy without a college degree an opportunity 11 years ago.  One time he sent me to Phoenix to the office of a company we were buying to interview the Managers and make some business recommendations on what to do with the place.  Wow!  A business trip!  I asked if I should get a suit and wear long sleeves (it was summer in Phoenix but I thought I should cover my arms). He said “you are who you are and I know who you are”.  Nuff said; no suit.  His kid has some rare disease and is dying…He is a rich white man with boot on someone’s throat I’m sure, but he is a person.  I don’t hate him.

My brother lives in a super fucked up neighborhood.  One time there was this huge brawl between the punx and the drug dealers and crack heads.  It wasn’t about class, it wasn’t about race.  There were mixed races on both sides of the fight.  Hell some of the week-end warrior crack heads might have it financially better than some of the punx so any assumed thoughts on classism are out the window.  You can tell who they are by the way they dress; they are clean and have nice shoes and clothes.  They come out of the burbs for the weekend to hang out and “party” on the street.  They are white, black and brown.   Drug dealers aren’t really racist, the only color they see is green.   But the police are…The fact is that the police won’t patrol this neighborhood, it’s seen as being full of undesirables or some shit.  Poor people come in all colors…”fuck ‘em all”.

The contradictions in the punk scene are almost never ending.  The straight-edgers hate the drunk punx who hate the house punx who hate the street punx and oi boys who hate the crusties who hate showers and pop punx.  Fuck…It’s enough to make your head spin faster than a PHOBIA 7”.  We are often quick to point fingers and stereotype (often without gathering all the facts and having a full understanding), but not so fast to look in the mirror and examine our own judgments.

Racism is shit, classism is shit, sexism is shit, homophobia is shit, and bigotry (hating someone for their religion is bigotry) is shit.  But is it always that easy to identify and understand?  I hope that some of the stories I shared illustrate how gray the world really is and why you can’t paint with broad strokes.  You have to tailor to the individual or you risk becoming guilty of some other “ism” or phobia, even bigotry.  You may not agree with someone’s beliefs but do you hate them for it?  I don’t hate Mike, I don’t agree with his belief system or in his Judeo-Christian God , but I don’t hate Mike.  I can’t say I hate pop-punk dudes.  My buddy listens to some of the most horrendous bubble-gum shit there is…I think it’s easier to get rid of all the “isms” and phobias and just call it for what it is.  In a word it is hate. Hating is shit.  And I as I mentioned earlier “hate” is such a brutal and dualistic word.  I try to teach my kids to not use it and to use phrases such as “I don’t like lima beans” vs “I hate lima beans”…It’s not working very well…

Who do you hate?

Share love, compassion, and empathy and even sympathy, don’t share hate.

End Note 1.  I have a new band.  We are called APEX and we play crust.

End Note 2.  In the last issue some of you might have detected Damien and I have differing views on 911.  I put together some of my thoughts on 911 and a primer on False Flag Terrorism…you can read it here- http://thrashhead.com/911.html

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  1. cavewizard March 22, 2012 · Reply

    Well said!

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