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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 

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    Crust Hardcore profane existence Punk
  • 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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On the murder of Trayvon Martin

  • March 27, 2012
  • by stinkbot
  • · News

Rallies are being held nation wide demanding justice for Trayvon Martin,  the young man shot by a a neighborhood watch captain late last month.  This horrible incident has sparked debate on issues of race, gun control, justice (or lack thereof) not only within activist circles but within families who have found a way to keep the peace in the house by keeping silent about these issues.  Here are two pieces posted on activist websites, for more information type Trayvon’s name into a search engine and read everything that pops up.

On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin went out to buy some snacks at the nearby 7-Eleven. George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain in a small gated community in Sanford, Florida, was driving around in his SUV. Zimmerman called 911, saying Martin looked “real suspicious”—i.e., he was a young Black male, walking around in a hoodie. After the 911 dispatcher told Zimmerman not to pursue the youth, Zimmerman followed Trayvon Martin, got out of his car and then confronted Martin. Zimmerman was carrying a 9-millimeter handgun. Trayvon Martin was carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. There was yelling, then a gunshot. Trayvon Martin lay face down in the grass with a fatal bullet wound to the chest. Zimmerman was taken into custody, questioned and released. To this day, he has not been arrested and charged with any crime.

It is very good and very important that people, not only in Sanford, Florida, but all over the country, are outraged by the murder of Trayvon Martin and are making their outrage known in many different and creative forms of protest. It is also important that, in connection with the murder of Trayvon Martin, the memory of Emmett Till—wantonly murdered by white supremacists decades ago—is being raised to express the fact that people have seen this go on for far too long and will not stand by to see it happen yet again.
At the same time, the fact that yet another Emmett Till moment can arise—that yet another outrage of this kind can take place—today, more than 50 years after the original Emmett Till lynching, and that this murder of Trayvon Martin is not an isolated incident but only the latest of an endless chain of such acts that are perpetrated, condoned and covered up by the powers-that-be, shows very powerfully that, this time around, we must not settle for anything less than stopping this, once and for all—we must build a movement to really and finally put an end to these and countless other outrages that spew forth from this system, by sweeping away this system through revolution. This is deadly serious and we must take this up very seriously.
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

March 23, 2012
www.revcom.us

And something from www.anarchistnews.org :

The story is by now a familiar one. A young black male has been gunned down in cold blood by a person in a position of authority. It seems like a fresh outrage like this happens almost every week. And yet nothing changes, despite the numbers that swell the sidewalks at rallies denouncing the murders. Cries for justice ring out from every corner of the city, the state, the country, even the world. And yet the murders continue unabated. Each time the tragedy rips at our hearts, opening old wounds over the lives of those lost before, while carving new ones as details of the killing come out.
Except this time it was a little different. The shooter was not a cop in a uniform. He was an unlicensed neighborhood watch captain, a self-appointed cop in civilian clothes. Make no mistake, although Zimmerman was not a badged member of the local police department, he was nonetheless a police. He clearly wanted to imitate the murdering racists he saw around him, playing out a fantasy in his own neighborhood.

A dark-skinned boy is seen walking along the streets of a mostly white neighborhood. Zimmerman sees the boy as an outsider, and pursues the youth through his neighborhood. The boy speaks to his girlfriend on the phone about a strange man following him. Zimmerman speaks on the phone with the police, using a racial slur as he tells the cops he is trailing a “suspicious person.”

Screams ring out through the neighborhood. A gunshot goes off. The screams stop. A kid lies dead, shot once through the chest. Cops arrive on the scene and Zimmerman reveals to them he was the murderer. The uniformed police immediately accept Zimmerman’s false claim of self-defense, and begin to cover up the murder. The police choose to shield the murderer from persecution because he acts in accordance with their own interests, showing, as always, the police never “serve and protect” the true interests of a community. They treat Zimmerman as if he was a brother in arms. The cops act as a state-backed gang, beating back those who do not fit the plans for their master’s greed driven world, and aiding those who do.

Another unprovoked lynching in the south. This time it’s setting off a panic. It’s supposed to be a new era; did we not get rid of lynching? Many believed we were in a sort of post-race America. Trayvon Martin’s murder has smashed apart this myth. Outrage over the killing has spread rapidly through various social networks, and is beginning to spread into the streets across the country. We can no longer pretend that we have erased the old lines of color that divide our society.

Anger is mostly being focused on George Zimmerman at the moment, but only punishing the murderer will not bring justice. The murder of Trayvon was not just a result of one “bad apple” want-to-be cop acting out on his prejudiced and stereotyping beliefs. It was rather the result of a doomed institution, which grants power to murdering, racist thugs with badges, and to those who chose to act like them, even if they don’t have a badge and a government issued weapon. Attacks should not just be made on an individual, but on the system which perpetuates murders like Trayvon’s, Ariston Waiter’s, Joe Stafford’s, and many, many others.

This is not the first the first time there has been race-driven killing by an “authority figure” in Sanford, Florida. Nor will it be the last if the protests are limited to staged rallies, with a set list of speakers who speak vaguely of the need for “justice” and “accountability.” A focus on just punishing the committer of a murder fails to look at the overall conditions which lead to the murder. We cannot expect the murders of young black males by police to stop while the institution of policing remains. While Zimmerman himself is not sworn in as a police officer, he has served in the same “role” as one in this case. The Sanford Police Department has also helped to cover up the murder, treating Zimmerman as if he did have a badge. The police have released conflicting witness statements to create a murkier picture of the killing. They also failed to conduct any immediate investigation of Zimmerman, allowing facts to disappear before they became public.

While the system is horribly and fatally fucked, we also cannot ignore the actions of the individual. Clearly Zimmerman’s act was terrible, and has damaged all those involved. This deed must elicit a response, but to what degree is tough to decide. Judging the community dynamics and appropriate conflict response from so far away is difficult. Most across the country are demanding the legal prosecution of the Zimmerman, as the proper way to attain justice. Already a police commissioner has resigned, under community pressure for failing to arrest Zimmerman. We cannot ignore the appalling killing Zimmerman has committed. But to send someone into the prison-industrial complex is never justice. This may seem an extreme stance for some, but it is clear to others that while what Zimmerman did was despicable, sentencing him to serve time in prison only places him under the rule of those who commit racist acts of violence every day. Punishing one individual through prison only perpetuates the terrible system.

Some may attempt to defend Zimmerman’s intentions, even as his actions are universally accepted as deplorable. “He was just trying to protect his neighborhood, without relying on the police, isn’t that commendable?” they’ll say. Certainly communities that do not rely on the police to resolve conflicts are desirable. But this was not what Zimmerman was after. He was still heavily dependent on the police, as evidenced by the forty-six calls he made to police in just over a year. Zimmerman instead was attempting to emulate police behavior, giving himself a false position of authority by anointing himself the head of the neighborhood watch. He was not interested in creating a welcoming community, but rather a space free of “outsiders”. To Zimmerman all black men were automatically suspicious outsiders. Racism like this cannot be accepted, and Zimmerman should not escape without consequences. The consequences provided by the state are not adequate; they do nothing to prevent atrocities like these from happening once again.

Protesters have begun to take to the streets in many communities in outrage over Trayvon Martin’s murder. So far much of the rage has been focused on just this specific case, but we should encourage an expansion of the anger to include the entire racist policing institution. Trayvon’s murder is a result of the same apparatus that has given Atlanta the killings of Ariston Waiters and Joetavius Stafford in just the last six months. Their names, and the countless others who are victims of police violence, should not be forgotten as Trayvon is mourned. The collective anger everyone has felt over Trayvon’s death should not just be directed towards the legal punishment of one person, nor should it be limited to desperate pleas to authority figures to stop the violence. A victory in this battle is not a prison sentence for George Zimmerman, or a new piece of legislation. Rise up and strike back against the pigs who attempt to control our lives.

Against (A)LL Police
Fire to the Prisons

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